Oh, My, Cell Phone Vapors! 0
David Polk finds cell phones scary:
Second, this obsession is having negative consequences in the workplace. A member of our advisory board for the Center for Professional Excellence tells of interviewing a candidate for a job in his company. During the interview, the candidate’s cell phone rang, and the candidate answered the phone. Upon the completion of the call, the candidate signaled that the interview can continue. Guess who didn’t get the job? Worse, guess who didn’t understand why they didn’t get the job?
I know that persons use cell phones and other gadgets inappropriately and often stupidly. The local rag had an item in their politeness column about some lady who sent texts throughour the evening Christmas service at her church, giving new meaning to “Let your light so shine” (link not available).
But, ya know, it’s not the phones that are being stupid. Let’s not blame the phones.
What the phones (and other iJunk) do is give humans new and creative opportunities to demonstrate human stupid. And human stupid is always with us.
Afterthought:
If I were a hiring manager (or a prospective suitor or otherwise in the market), I would much rather find out that the applicant was a dolt before making the job offer.
