I’m in hot water with my boss today because of my cellphone. When he calls sometimes it will reject the call because it’s in my pants pocket and I’m leaning forward at the sink or things like that.
You should get a hot tub installed in your office. Then you can invite your boss to come over and get into hot water with you. (If you do this, you should probably leave your cell phone out of it.)
Okay, I’ll bite. Why does your cell phone reject calls when it’s in your pants pocket and you’re leaning forward at the sink or things like that? Did you program it to do that on purpose?
Maybe you should carry your cell phone some place other than that pocket.
Neat.
You should maybe try to not do that any more. Or not.
I’m not really sure what you’re hoping to get out of this thread.
If you’re on your own time, he can wait until its convenient for you to get back to him (within reason).
If its during work hours then should be able to get ahold of you easily.
When I am work I have to carry a separate cell phone provided by the employer. I stick in my pocket when I get there and leave it on charger there at work when I finish my shift.
I thought maybe this has happened to someone else too.
nope, pretty sure you’re the only one this happens too.
You need a beeter understanding and/or explanation of why your cell phone is “rejecting calls.”
Doesn’t your phone go to voice mail when a call is rejected? Anyone can be temporarily unable to answer the phone. Your boss can leave a message, like everybody else.
If the phone provided by your company (I sure hope they haven’t suckered you into personally buying and paying for a phone used for work) is malfunctioning, that is not your fault. You report it and hope they fix it.
I think I didn’t make it very clear why the call disconnects. While the call is going through, the cellphone screen has a green strip at the bottom that I need to swipe to take the call. When the cellphone is in my pants pocket and there’s a call, every now and then the fabric of my pants or something I’m leaning against at the time will make the call to disconnect, either by accepting my unintended pants “swipe” then accepting my unintended pants “hangup” or it somehow directly does an unintended pants “hangup”, kind of like a “butt dial” in reverse. I can’t believe I’m the only one who has experienced this, but I’m on-call throughout the day unlike most people so perhaps so. Ideally, the pants aren’t interfering with the call before I press my bluetooth to accept the call and speak with my boss. Anyhow my boss must think I’m a malicious butt to purposely hangup on his calls one or twice a week.
Do any of the buttons (power/volume) cause the call to be dropped? It could be that the button is being pressed by your pocket rather than the screen being swiped.
I think that could be though I haven’t experimented with it to pinpoint a culprit. I do remove the cellphone very gingerly from my pocket when he calls unexpectedly such as when my bluetooth is disconnected/recharging and I haven’t already removed the phone from my pocket and placed it on my kitchen table or computer table for quick access. However, it sometimes has disconnected while I’m trying to remove the phone from my pocket if my hand presses against it the wrong way.
My boss, much as participants in this thread, doesn’t seem to ever have experienced this difficulty and seems irritated like I’m purposely disconnecting him although I immediately dial him back and ask if he tried to call me.
Perhaps try a cell phone holster?
Blame the phone. Ask for a new phone or a cover to prevent the problem. If you have a cover your pants can’t answer your calls.
I do have a cover, but then I can’t process credit card payments without removing the cover and reassembling it afterwards. There’s an extension cord that can sidestep that problem, but WalMart doesn’t sell it. Also, the cover screen quickly becomes grimy but I like having a clear screen for watching music videos on youtube.
Your boss sounds like an unreasonable jerk. There are plenty of good reasons to miss a call, and you call him back immediately.
Well, bingo. Thank you. Though he may seem to subsist on ambrosia in valhalla, he does the occasional “butt dial” himself, and has missed a few of my calls from time to time, but if any of his calls are missed it has to be on purpose or due to negligence on my part such as dozing off, which I admitted to doing each of four times this past year that actually happened, and I’m on call about 70 hours a week.
And I call him back right away too.
Then he chewed me out over the phone for about twenty minutes today, about losing the business contract like I was the last straw to break the camel’s back there, because I was supposedly late for a client although I was completely available to be called 5-10 minutes earlier to avoid that. And I was supposed to magically know that I was being sent to a problem client that had a history of reporting others work, but the client seemed happy with me.
Does this only happen when you’ve got an erection?
Only for one lasting more than 4 hours.