Cellphones in the Workplace
Go ahead and call me "Scrooge", but I'm trying to figure out when having a cellular phone became a Constitutional right? This recent article in USA Today, for example, describes how employers are requesting that their employees put their phones on "vibrate" while at work. What ever happened to just telling them to shut them off? I was in a store the other day and as I got to my turn at the register, the cashier picked up her phone to scroll through the call log as I waited for her to assist me. If it's an emergency, fine. If it's to make sure your kid got off the bus, fine. But how many times a day does someone really need to make a call on his/her cellphone. Every call is a distraction from work and typically interrupts others as most people haven't yet figured out that they needn't YELL into their phones for others to hear them.
My view is that there's nothing wrong with a workplace policy that actually provides that employees should be working and not interrupted by cell phones. Why all this sensitivity around this issue? I don't get it.