Does anyone else have a load of permies with their Blackberry's vibrating every minute! It's really starting to p1ss me off, and i'm going to have to say something. Any ideas for a "polite" approach? 
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Shut the F UCK UPOriginally posted by AZZIK View PostDoes anyone else have a load of permies with their Blackberry's vibrating every minute! It's really starting to p1ss me off, and i'm going to have to say something. Any ideas for a "polite" approach?I'm sorry, but I'll make no apologies for this
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Are you sure that it's the Blackberry's which are vibrating? It could be all in your mind.Originally posted by AZZIK View PostDoes anyone else have a load of permies with their Blackberry's vibrating every minute! It's really starting to p1ss me off, and i'm going to have to say something. Any ideas for a "polite" approach?I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff.Comment
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Take the vibrating Blackberry, put it on the floor, crush it under your steel-heeled SS-sturmtrooper boot, then tell the permie "Fixed that for you" with a big smile.Originally posted by AZZIK View PostDoes anyone else have a load of permies with their Blackberry's vibrating every minute! It's really starting to p1ss me off, and i'm going to have to say something. Any ideas for a "polite" approach?
That should encourage the others to manage their Blackberries in a slightly more discreet way."Condoms should come with a free pack of earplugs."Comment
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You might ask, politely, for the following:
1. Please switch your BBs off or to silent - especially if we're going to get anything done today
2. If all of them go at once, suggest that they take 30 seconds to read the message then get back to what you're talking about and start counting out loud
3. What Pogle said
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Buy a mobile jammer.
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- sorryOriginally posted by AZZIK View PostYeah very subtle
But I know how annoying it can be when your working. I tend to have my ipod on low, just to block out the background noise, but not loud enough to stop other people getting my attention if they need to. Of course that's not always possible.
At my last clientco everyone had 'humorous' ring tones - it drove me nuts!
I'm not really sure if there is anything you can do about it, but good luck with that.
I'm sorry, but I'll make no apologies for this
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I had to put up with this on my last contract, I just made sarcastic comments like, (oh your wife again, my aren't you under the thumb etc etc) It has to be tongue in cheek, so they don't get you firedOriginally posted by AZZIK View PostDoes anyone else have a load of permies with their Blackberry's vibrating every minute! It's really starting to p1ss me off, and i'm going to have to say something. Any ideas for a "polite" approach?Comment
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Regardless of gender, call across: "I think your dildo's going off again"Originally posted by AZZIK View PostDoes anyone else have a load of permies with their Blackberry's vibrating every minute! It's really starting to p1ss me off, and i'm going to have to say something. Any ideas for a "polite" approach?
Did that at a previous gig. After about two weeks of driving them mental with that, it sank in and eventually they all agreed how annoying other people's vibrating mobiles were but all had assumed nobody could hear theirs.
Permies.
Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.
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