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Poll: Is your phone mostly a work tool, or a distraction from your work?
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Thomas Pfann
Thomas Pfann  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:08
Member (2006)
English to German
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Neither Jan 23, 2018

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.

 
Gitte Hoveds (X)
Gitte Hoveds (X)
Denmark
Local time: 13:08
Danish to English
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Neither Jan 23, 2018

My phone is irrelevant to my work life.

 
Muriel Vasconcellos
Muriel Vasconcellos  Identity Verified
United States
Local time: 05:08
Member (2003)
Spanish to English
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Neither Jan 23, 2018

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.


 
Ricki Farn
Ricki Farn
Germany
Local time: 13:08
English to German
Neither Jan 23, 2018

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
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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 I'm wearing an ankle monitor.
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Beata Baika
Beata Baika  Identity Verified
Romania
Local time: 14:08
German to Hungarian
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Neither Jan 23, 2018

I don't take jobs through phone. I use my smartphone only to check emails.

 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 12:08
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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Neither Jan 23, 2018

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!

 
Gianluca Marras
Gianluca Marras  Identity Verified
Italy
Local time: 13:08
English to Italian
other Jan 23, 2018

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...


 
Ricki Farn
Ricki Farn
Germany
Local time: 13:08
English to German
Philosophical Jan 23, 2018

Gianluca Marras wrote:

my phone is a phone.





 
Mario Chavez (X)
Mario Chavez (X)  Identity Verified
Local time: 08:08
English to Spanish
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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?



 
Mario Chavez (X)
Mario Chavez (X)  Identity Verified
Local time: 08:08
English to Spanish
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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).




 
Gianluca Marras
Gianluca Marras  Identity Verified
Italy
Local time: 13:08
English to Italian
:-D Jan 23, 2018

Ricki Farn wrote:

Gianluca Marras wrote:

my phone is a phone.





oops!!!!!


 
Yetta Jensen Bogarde
Yetta Jensen Bogarde  Identity Verified
Denmark
Local time: 13:08
Member (2012)
English to Danish
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Neither Jan 23, 2018

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.


 
Joohee Kim
Joohee Kim  Identity Verified
South Korea
Local time: 21:08
Member (2017)
English to Korean
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Work tool Jan 23, 2018

I can't live without my phone. Yes, I am a smartphone zombie...

 
Vanda Nissen
Vanda Nissen  Identity Verified
Australia
Local time: 22:08
Member (2008)
English to Russian
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Worktool Jan 23, 2018

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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