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Poll: Is your phone mostly a work tool, or a distraction from your work? Inițiatorul discuției: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Is your phone mostly a work tool, or a distraction from your work?".
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Thomas Pfann 
Regatul Unit
Local time: 11:52
Membru (2006)
din engleză în germană
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My phone is for receiving emails and accessing the internet when I am out of the house. When I am at my desk working, the phone is mostly quiet. Luckily, I hardly get any work-related calls (probably no more than five per year). If the phone rings at all, it is usually a nuisance call about that car accident I wasn't involved in recently.
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Gitte Hoveds (X)
Danemarca
Local time: 12:52
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My phone is irrelevant to my work life.
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Muriel Vasconcellos
Statele Unite
Local time: 03:52
Membru (2003)
din spaniolă în engleză
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I rarely get phone calls. I encourage people to e-mail me because I'm hearing-impaired. This last week I only received 2 phone calls on my land line, both from clients, and I couldn't hear either one, even with my fancy phone and hearing aids. I received no calls on my cell.
People ask me: "How do you manage to do all that you do?" and I tell them it's because I don't talk on the phone.
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Ricki Farn
Germania
Local time: 12:52
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My phone is a thing that can make acoustic phone calls. Per week, I get at most five of those, and when they would be a distraction, I don't answer them.
I think this question refers to a smartphone. I don't have a smartphone because I feel it would be way too fragile for my big paws. Maybe I should go Japanese and get a smartphone on a lanyard, so at least I wouldn't be able to drop it. But just checking emails on my PC once in a while does the same job without making me feel that ... See more My phone is a thing that can make acoustic phone calls. Per week, I get at most five of those, and when they would be a distraction, I don't answer them.
I think this question refers to a smartphone. I don't have a smartphone because I feel it would be way too fragile for my big paws. Maybe I should go Japanese and get a smartphone on a lanyard, so at least I wouldn't be able to drop it. But just checking emails on my PC once in a while does the same job without making me feel that I'm wearing an ankle monitor. ▲ Collapse
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Beata Baika
România
Local time: 13:52
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I don't take jobs through phone. I use my smartphone only to check emails.
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I haven’t had a phone call from a client for ages. For a while, I was frequently annoyed by unwelcome telesales calls until I told them over and over again that I wasn’t interested and someone finally listened!
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my phone is a phone.
it is used for receiving or making calls. those related to work are non a distractions, the others sometimes are.
It is used for checking emails,
also for games and music when I want...
AT the end of the day, it is not a work tool and it is not a distraction.
It is a personal phone, a work tool, a distraction, something I forget I have...
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Ricki Farn
Germania
Local time: 12:52
din engleză în germană
| Philosophical | Jan 23, 2018 |
Gianluca Marras wrote:
my phone is a phone.
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Mario Chavez (X)
Local time: 06:52
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| Nuisance calls | Jan 23, 2018 |
Thomas Pfann wrote:
My phone is for receiving emails and accessing the internet when I am out of the house. When I am at my desk working, the phone is mostly quiet. Luckily, I hardly get any work-related calls (probably no more than five per year). If the phone rings at all, it is usually a nuisance call about that car accident I wasn't involved in recently.
I'm curious, Thomas: in America we'd identify those phantom car accident calls as coming from unscrupulous lawyers, whom we call ambulance chasers. What do you call them over there?
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Mario Chavez (X)
Local time: 06:52
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| Smartphones vs. telephones | Jan 23, 2018 |
I don't know about Android-powered smartphones, but I can block unwelcome or nuisance calls on my iPhone.
My iPhone is also my alarm clock and my soothing sleeping music generator (I use an iTunes playlist for that).
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Ricki Farn wrote: Gianluca Marras wrote:
my phone is a phone.
oops!!!!!
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I am still more comfortable with my landline, but I don't get a lot of calls.
I do have a smartphone, but mostly it is sound asleep in my handbag, and I only use it now and then, e.g. when I'm running late for an appointment.
For work-related communication on the road I use a mini iPad.
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Joohee Kim
Coreea de Sud
Local time: 19:52
Membru (2017)
din engleză în coreeană
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I can't live without my phone. Yes, I am a smartphone zombie...
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Vanda Nissen
Australia
Local time: 20:52
Membru (2008)
din engleză în rusă
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I do telephone interpreting, individual clients also call me on my mobile and I do check my emails, however I am not addicted to it because I prefer getting distracted on my laptop:). My smartphone's screen (although one of the largest) is not big enough for that.
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