So your boss is calling you on your personal phone?
What kind of phone is this? And what are your pants made of? I’ve never had any problems with calls being made or dropped because of my clothing.
I have a few questions:
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[li]Why is your boss calling you at home?[/li][li]Do you have the sort of occupation where you have the privilege of working from home?[/li][LIST=a]
[li]If “yes,” please refer to Question 5.[/li][li]If “no,” please refer to Question 3.[/li][/ol]
[li]Were you at home, when you were supposed to be at work? [/li][li]Do you have some sort of work schedule such that you are “on call” during the days that you are not physically at your job?[/li][LIST=a]
[li]If “yes,” please refer to question 6.[/li][li]If “no,” please refer to Question 1.[/li][/LIST]
[li]When you work from home, are you also “on call”?[/li][LIST=a]
[li]If “yes,” please refer to Question 6.[/li][li]If “no,” please refer to Question 1.[/li][/LIST]
[li]If this is a known problem, why do you keep your phone in your pocket during periods that you are “on call”?[/li][/LIST]
Also, on preview, and at the risk as coming across as overly cynical, am I the only person wondering whether the OP was just waiting around for the “Boss is jerk!” affirmation?
I am also wondering why the OP answered the suggestion to get a cover that prevented the “pants answer” problem with the reply that they were hard to use and blocked his video watching. :dubious:
Greenelf Serious suggestion - use a different phone for your personal stuff. Keep on looking solutions to your work phone problem. There is a phone cover out there that will prevent your pants from hanging up on your boss and still let you do your job. You might also investigate a phone holster, so your work phone is never in a pocket in the first place.
Maybe you should stop wearing pants.
I will investigate a phone holster, but it’s interesting to me that there’s slang for “butt dialing” but no slang for “butt hanging up”. Why would inadvertant dialing be so much more prevalent? People make way more phone calls than they receive?
The key element of butt dialing is that phone operator doesn’t realize that it has occurred. The person who answers the phone is left listening to whatever is happening in the vicinity of your butt. It’s a weird scene.
OTOH, when someone calls you and the phone operator fumbles and accidentally hangs up - the fumbler simply calls back. Such fumbles can happen with any phone at any time. It’s not a unique event, it has a simple solution, and no butts are involved.
Butts make everything funnier.
So any way. What kind of phone is it?
I did that and got a raise.
Is this an iPhone?
Because, iPhones have a slide-to-unlock & answer strip, and I have never, ever heard of this being activated accidentally.
Pressing on the volume controls will send a call directly to voicemail.
Seriously, if it’s the pocket rubbing in ways that cause supervisor-style friction, get a generic holster.
If one reads my posts carefully, the main friction was caused by his anticipation of a client complaint after which I mentioned that the client and I hit it off just fine. The client was telling me I could go anywhere I wanted in life and get any job I wanted. I replied that I’m terrible at job interviewing.
And the boss said I was late, although I know that’s not true for reasons I won’t go into, and he could have sent me out five to ten minutes earlier if time was so crucial with this “problem client”. Also, that was NOT one of the times that I had a cellphone problem so that’s completely tangential to my phone conversation where he chewed me out for 20 minutes. Moreover, it’s ludicrous on the face of it that I’m the straw breaking his business contract’s back when the “problem client” was complaining about OTHERS, not me. Her past complaints were about OTHERS, maybe him included.
If one reads your posts carefully, you are in hot water with your boss because sometimes your phone rejects calls because it’s in your pocket.
“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.”
That was just the opening post. I was on call working 12 hour shift yesterday when I posted that. Read the whole thread. I’m on call about 18,200 hours a year, so he doesn’t have to be upset when I answer 95-96 out of 100 calls without a hitch and almost always immediately call back during the 4-5 out of 100 that accidentally hangup for whatever reason. Anyway, I’m his most reliable guy and the one who doesn’t constantly talk about him behind his back, so maybe he should appreciate me a bit more.
I totally agree. But is the question "how do i avoid accidentally rejecting his calls? " Or is it "how do i deal with my boss being a dick? "
The thread was started after getting chewed out for 20 minutes over something imaginary on his part, the “problem client”'s complaint, so I’d say it was concerning both the technical question and a complaint on my part about being treated that way.
I really am shocked that I’m the only one with this cellphone phenomenon. Even when it’s laying on a desk at the ready, sometimes it will just hang up when I gingerly grab it. I don’t think of myself as inordinately uncoordinated. It’s like I just touch the thing sometimes, and boom, call disconnected. I suspect sometimes it’s getting disconnected on his end too though I’m always the one with the blame. He doesn’t usually chew me out about it, but he gets irritated with me like I’m doing it on purpose or something. Why would I purposely piss off the boss? I need the income for now.
Honey it happens to me too. I did two things. I got an enclosed case, for one. It takes me longer to get it out but I never buttdial anymore. And I got a phone that auto-locks the screen so you can’t dial until you swipe.
What kind of phone do you have? You need one that has an auto-locking screen. Mine doesn’t require a password, but you do have to swipe it to unlock. And you could put a covering case on it. Of course if you don’t have a case at all I think you’re batcrap crazy, but if you do, you just need a better one.
But I take credit card payments at least a couple times a day and don’t like the inconvenience of removing and reassembling the cellphone case as my job can be quite busy at times. There’s an extension cord to sidestep that issue, but WalMart doesn’t carry it.
? I don’t disassemble my case, but I do have to remove the phone from it. Ok, what kind of a phone do you have? a flat phone? Like an iPhone?
I have a TracFone and I have a case that the phone slides into, like a pocket, and then the flap closes over the top.
You can also get a case that opens like a book.
Most of your concerns are really answered by “Put up with it, or go out and get a different job”.
But, if you have a problem with your boss expecting you to never, ever, ever, miss a call from him, I suggest, next time you answer a call from him, make grunting and straining sounds throughout the conversation, until he can’t ignore them. When he asks why, tell him you’re on the toilet, but didn’t want to miss his call (You could get a whoopee cushion or other way to add sound effects, as well). If necessary, make some running comments about the size, relative odor, or stickiness of what’s happening.
Most likely, this will cure your boss of his need for second-to-second contact. If not, you may have to pretend you’re driving during the next call … get some screeching brakes sound effects ready.
No, I’ve never had this problem. Never heard of it before either. Try a wallet style phone case:
May I ask why it matters if Walmart carries the exact part you need? You’ve mentioned that a few times. If someone else has a part that will solve your problem, buy it from them. Don’t expense it if Walmart is your only allowed vendor and move on with things.