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minestrone replied

11 May 2009, 11:43
Originally posted by bobhope View Post

Didn't someone on here buy one last year? Are they any good?

I got one last year, I think I started the thread. They work if you are 100 yards from a tower, if you are close then you can pretty much put the thing next to the phone and nothing happens. It would not work in clientCo office as there was a transmitter on the roof. Outwith that then it has about a 3 yard effect range.

I got the thing for the journey as my last gig required about 3 hours on the train each day. I would read the paper or do some work on the laptop, some folk wanted to do 40 minute calls. They just got cut off. I don't mind people using phones on the train, there were a bunch though that wanted to do conference calls each day, same 4 people, laptops out, mobile headphones on. The train should not be used as a meeting room as far as I am concerned.

Pound for pound one of the best investments I have made.
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cailin maith replied

11 May 2009, 10:45
Originally posted by Menelaus View Post

Morning
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Menelaus replied

11 May 2009, 10:41
Good morning CM
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cailin maith replied

11 May 2009, 10:40
Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

I have a steering wheel attached to my genitals. It drives me nuts.

Want me to get your coat for you?
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bobhope replied

11 May 2009, 10:36
Originally posted by minestrone View Post

Buy a mobile jammer.

Didn't someone on here buy one last year? Are they any good?
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scooterscot replied

11 May 2009, 10:19
Originally posted by AZZIK View Post

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?

My work demands concentration and quiet from time to time, hence why I told the client this morning I'll not be the office this week.
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NotAllThere replied

11 May 2009, 10:13
Originally posted by Pogle View Post

... it drove me nuts!
...

I have a steering wheel attached to my genitals. It drives me nuts.
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BrowneIssue replied

11 May 2009, 09:24
Originally posted by AZZIK View Post

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?

Regardless of gender, call across: "I think your dildo's going off again"

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.
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GardenGirl replied

11 May 2009, 09:07
Originally posted by AZZIK View Post

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?

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 fired
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Pogle replied

11 May 2009, 09:06
Originally posted by AZZIK View Post

Yeah very subtle

- sorry
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.
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minestrone replied

11 May 2009, 09:05
Buy a mobile jammer.
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Menelaus replied

11 May 2009, 09:04
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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ThomasSoerensen replied

11 May 2009, 09:01
Originally posted by AZZIK View Post

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?

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.

That should encourage the others to manage their Blackberries in a slightly more discreet way.
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AZZIK replied

11 May 2009, 08:59
Originally posted by Pogle View Post

Shut the F UCK UP

Yeah very subtle
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Rookie replied

11 May 2009, 08:57
Originally posted by AZZIK View Post

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?

Are you sure that it's the Blackberry's which are vibrating? It could be all in your mind.
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