answer cell phone in customer's homes?

[JIMRPT at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/19/06 1:02:12 AM, dnereson at 4dv.net writes:



> Do you guys and gals answer your cell phone in customer’s homes? 
> 
> 

David;
You have received a lot of good answers. To add mine to the mix.............. 
No absolutely not. :-)

I might carry my cell phone with me but I would never answer it unless I was 
expecting a life or death call. If such were the case I would inform the 
customer that I was possibly going to recieve said call and (perhaps) apologize in 
advance.

Few things aggravate me more than inconsiderate people who  use cell phones 
in inappropiate circumstances.....such as in line at the bank/grocery store/ 
ticket counter having to listen to Mrs. so & so complain about her husbands 
cheating while Mr. thing-a-ma-jig behind you is discussing cleaning out Mr & Mrs. 
Smith septic tank, or having to listen to a Mom screaming on the phone at her 
kids to settle down and behave or "you are really going to get it when I get 
home." (verbatim quote ;)

Would you consider taking an answering machine with you so you could monitor 
the calls it answered?

We have little enough civility, consideration, plain good manners, in the 
world and not using the danged cell phone in inappropiate circumstances is adding 
just a tad where it is woefully lacking.

  No matter the venues you might work for/with there is never a reason to 
intterupt your work/tuning in progress that can't wait until you are finished 
tuning the piano you are working on.  For instance lets assume that you are 
half-way through tuning a piano and you get a call from some important customer 
with an emergency situation.....are you going to stop the current tuning, close 
up you tools and scoot over to the venue and take care of the percieved 
emergency?

Leaving a piano half tuned is unacceptable, I think you would agree, and if 
we wouldn't leave a piano half tuned then just what was accomplished by 
interrupting your work to answer the danged phone? If we have customer, real or 
potential, who can't wait an hour for a return call then we 'probably' don't want 
those customers on our list anyway.......impatience
is rampant in our society and we don't need to build our client base full of 
those who are...........

But that is just my opinion...other milages 'will' vary.
Jim Bryant (FL)
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