Tell us your favorite story about a rude BlackBerry user (or post your rules of BB etiquette).
I think the biggest rule of BB (or email, or other phones for that matter) is to not let it interfere with your relationships. I can't stand it when someone gives me their "divided attention"....
this guy at work is infamous for scheduling a meeting and then spending the bulk of his own damn meeting focused on his BB. then he schedules another meeting b/c in his opinion the issue was not properly addressed at the first meeting. repeat ad nauseam.
his name should be michael and he should work at dunder mifflin.
People only think someone is rude when they are using their blackberry, and they really want attention, and the blackberry ends up being more engaging than that individual, and therefore they blame the user as being rude, go figure
Sadly, I witnessed a off-leash dog get hit by a car earlier this year. As the horrified owner was kneeling over her hurt pet, the driver got out, still talking on his Bluetooth, and proceeded to finish his conversation (a good five minutes) before approaching the woman to help and console her!
The only thing I need is a sign to hold up to alert people that I'm on the phone when they just come up and start jabbering. My only pet peeve dealing with bluetooth headsets.
Hahaha whenever I'm walking by someone I don't want to Acknowledge or talk to, I just whip out the BB and pretend to be so involved in what I am doing that I don't notice whoever I was trying to ignore.... OMG IT WORKS EVERYTIME!
Voted maybe cuz I suppose there should be, like dont overdue it with the BB when ur wife wants attention(which is all the time) ...but then again ITS SO HARD CUZ IM A BB HOODRAT!!!!!
I think the biggest rule that I am sometimes guilty of breaking is that i sometimes read and / or respond to emails on my blackberry while talking with someone else. I definitely think that is a kind of an "unspoken ettiquete rule" that many of us are guilty of occasionally breaking.
I don't think it's just BB etiquette, it's cell phone etiquette in general. There are just some places that ringers should be off and you shouldn't talk on the phone ... meetings, movies, weddings (yeah, the ringing can be heard in the video ), etc.
HA! Too many to name. Being a flight attendant I have to repeatdley tell people to TURN THEM OFF. I have a BB (although recent) and before that a Sidekick, so I know it sucks to have to sit on a plane and not have connection but....come on people!! If that email is so important then wait for the next flight!! See, now I am getting all riled up about it.....