Reply to: Mobiles on aircraft

[TheFaQQer]

Maybe a ringtone along the lines of

"ding dong: this is you captain speaking try not to panic but we have lost power, please assume the crash position ASAP"

Hillarious fun

[Platypus]

Maybe a ringtone along the lines of

"ding dong: this is you captain speaking try not to panic but we have lost power, please assume the crash position ASAP"

Hillarious fun

Great idea! I'd go for a female voice screaming loudly "arrgghh we're gonna crash!!!"

[Bagpuss]

The use of mobiles on planes flying in European airspace has been given approval by UK regulator Ofcom.

Linky.

What an awful idea - it's bad enough on a train, but the thought of getting stuck on a plane for a few hours with some annoying prat rabbitting "Hi, yah, I'm on the plane..." at high volume...

Maybe a ringtone along the lines of

"ding dong: this is you captain speaking try not to panic but we have lost power, please assume the crash position ASAP"

Hillarious fun

[oracleslave]

I did need to get out more in 2005

Pre divorce at a guess?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I think you need to get out more. Funny though.

I did need to get out more in 2005

[oracleslave]

From my blog in 2005 ( I had started listing shouty mobile calls):-

I know it's hardly original but this week's round up of shouty mobile phone calls starts with Giles Witham who had a crisis involving training for his project at the Bristol and West – however, if she wasn't a competent trainer, AXA would surely never have employed her, so that's alright. He wanted to touch base with everyone, it seems.

Then there was a woman who didn't identify herself but was counseling her friend against having an affair. She was “not being funny”, but there wasn't a lot wrong with his wife – although as she announced repeatedly “he is a twat” - an
expression that would have mortally offended my Ma.

Top marks go to a woman who will (but doesn't deserve to) remain nameless – she announced her bank security details including name, address (Swanwick, near Alfreton, Derbyshire) and full date of birth so loudly that it would be tempting to arrange to drain her account simply to alert her to the fact that there are in fact other people in the world.

I think you need to get out more. Funny though.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

From my blog in 2005 ( I had started listing shouty mobile calls):-

I know it's hardly original but this week's round up of shouty mobile phone calls starts with Giles Witham who had a crisis involving training for his project at the Bristol and West – however, if she wasn't a competent trainer, AXA would surely never have employed her, so that's alright. He wanted to touch base with everyone, it seems.

Then there was a woman who didn't identify herself but was counseling her friend against having an affair. She was “not being funny”, but there wasn't a lot wrong with his wife – although as she announced repeatedly “he is a twat” - an
expression that would have mortally offended my Ma.

Top marks go to a woman who will (but doesn't deserve to) remain nameless – she announced her bank security details including name, address (Swanwick, near Alfreton, Derbyshire) and full date of birth so loudly that it would be tempting to arrange to drain her account simply to alert her to the fact that there are in fact other people in the world.

[TheFaQQer]

Yeah we got there about 8.30...shame that, Ned is desperate to meet Mrs F...

You should have shouted / texted / rung!!!

[cailin maith]

Quite possibly - it was about 840 or so when I finally got in. Girlies were sleeping in the car when I found them.

Yeah we got there about 8.30...shame that, Ned is desperate to meet Mrs F...

[Churchill]

Quite possibly. And the easy way to get round that would be to take the interview in the toilet.

Don't talk crap!

[Turion]

really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really annoying for EVERYONE on the plane

Quite possibly. And the easy way to get round that would be to take the interview in the toilet.

[TheFaQQer]

It will be useful when contractors are searching for their next contract. On a flight home from a remote project you can still be in contact with agents and clients. Inflight telephone interviews will become a reality.

really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really annoying for EVERYONE on the plane

[Platypus]

The difference now is that people will expect to be able to ring you on a plane; at the moment you have to ring them.

Good point - when I used to fly a lot more than I do now, the plane was a haven away from calls and work - it was great getting paid to sit around drinking and watching movies!

[Turion]

It will be useful when contractors are searching for their next contract. On a flight home from a remote project you can still be in contact with agents and clients. Inflight telephone interviews will become a reality.

[TheFaQQer]

You can already have boorish conversations on planes if you feel the need. They have phones in the armrests in all of the flights I've been on recently.

MM in "only ever fly club or better" mode

The difference now is that people will expect to be able to ring you on a plane; at the moment you have to ring them.

When I was permie, the company finally gave all consultants a company mobile phone. My manager told me "it's to make your job easier". I "politely" pointed out that it was to make his job easier.