Phone Fear

[JC]

Originally Posted by Fairlane

Booming voice, eye contact, hand gestures, sentance and speak structure and good posture mean jack on the phone.

Iam quite a brilliant public speaker and orator, very helpful for politics student. Have quite a long history as a debater, but none of this translates on the phone. I refuse to discuss things on the phone that can be done in person and have used SMS text messaging probably about 5 times in my whole life.

Looks like your speaking ability doesn't translate to the keyboard either.

I have no fear of phones, but hate it when the person on the other end talks as if you are 100 miles away and they are try to tell you something without a phone (ie they yell), or they talk so softly you have to ask them to repeat everything and speak up!

[BlackLS]

Originally Posted by XR6_661

Does anyone else always have their phone on silent all the time? i.e. No vibrate, no ringtone, etc?

hate people that have ultra loud message and ring tones....especially default nokia ones.

Yes! Although;

I turn my phone on loud when I sleep so that the alarm wakes me up in the morning.

Otherwise the vibrate noise on the table or in my pocket is more than enough notification.

[Campo81]

I hate people listening to my conversation or people who think everyone wants to hear theirs while they are on public transport

[Dauphin]

I generally am fine with phones but I knew a friend from school who got zapped by lightning while talking on the phone and now has a fear of it happening again, so tries to keep calls very short.

[Peuty]

Originally Posted by XA-Coupe

I hate them as I have worked in call centres over time..... not a self confidence thing but a pure refined hate of people on the other end

After working in retail for far too long, I know exactly what you mean by pure refined hatred for people on the other end....

In regards to my mobile, if it ever rings i will just usually ignore it anyway. I will only speak to people on the phone when I want to!

[2002xr6]

Hate the phone, i work in technical support so people ring me with problems all day long

[XCSEDAN]

Originally Posted by montyv8

you should be scared of phones, they watch you while you sleep...

phones - along with computers- are good in that you can be naked while using them, and no-one knows..

oh, wait... damn.

phil.... you are a dirty dirty man :
but good point i have been nude on the phone plenty of times

[GlennBA]

I work for woolies, and the PA system i used to hate using it and always screw up PA calls. You get better at it though.