Marin Independent Journal; April 12, 1994
You want to relay confidential information to a
business colleague, but he's using a speakerphone and won't turn it off.
You are sharing a nice dinner with your spouse when someone begins to
bellow into cellular phone at a nearby table. Some people are wondering
whether all decorum has disappeared, now that technological innovations
have invaded our personal and business lives.
What's lacking is electronic etiquette. People who use
electronic tools say there are right and wrong ways to act in the
techno-age. They know because they experience plenty of the wrong kind
of behavior.
Lee Dorfman of [Action Cellular] Rent a Phone in San
Francisco says, "I don't think cellular phones contribute to potentially
obnoxious behavior. If someone is prone to obnoxious behavior, he will
find a way whether he has a phone or not."
Dorfman doesn't think a restaurant is the place to
hold a phone conversation, however. "If you have to make a call, or if
your phone rings while you're at the table, you should excuse yourself
and finish the conversation in the lobby or out on the sidewalk," he
says
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