I line manage a very nice, intelligent, capable woman who's in her mid-20s. However, she is always, and I mean ALWAYS faffing around on her fucking phone at work. If it's not Whatsapp messages, it's Facebook, or Instagram, or some other social app I've probably never heard of, being over 40 & all that.
It's not just the phone as it happens. Her parents, who quite frankly should know better as they are both busy 'career people', email her God knows how many times a day about God knows what. She LIVES with them FFS!!
I did have a word with her not long after she started, because our boss had commented that she was on her phone a lot, so I said she needed to be careful about that, but I could tell that the concept of ignoring the phone was totally alien to her. I think recently it's actually got worse - she often doesn't even look up from it while I'm trying to tell her something work-related and she's clearly not listening properly.
I've come to the conclusion that she is literally addicted to the phone. I've only let it ride so far because she's good at her job and I'm shit at confrontation but it's now getting to the point where even that doesn't compensate for the fact that it's just fucking rude. Isn't it? Or am I just BU and horribly out of touch with how 'Millennials' live their lives?
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NoisyBrain · 22/12/2016 13:09
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