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Basic Pager Etiquette

Most college course syllabi now include a warning: “Please keep your pager or cell phone turned off in the lecture hall.” In part this is to keep students from receiving test answers by text. More traditionally, it is to keep instructors from being interrupted mid-lecture by musical tones and beeps, the furtive bending of heads to answer phones, the frantic rustling in handbags to turn them off, or students dashing out the door to take or make a call.

It’s a very different world because of our instant and constant telephonic access to one another. There was a time when, if you saw someone standing on a city corner gesturing to the air and pacing up and down shouting or laughing, you would consider them mad. Now you just realize they’re taking a call.

At this point, most professionals are very understanding if you have to take a page or call in the middle of a business meeting. It’s not the best of worlds, but it has come to be quite
accepted, and can, of course, be efficient and necessary especially if the call has to do with the meeting at hand. Do
try to keep it short, though, especially when people are billing clients for their time spent meeting with you.

When you carry your cell phone or pager into your personal life and social arena, there are different, basic rules of etiquette governing their use:

If you must bring your pager or cell phone to a movie or lecture or date, keep it on vibration mode. Generally, don’t bring it to a social occasion where it will be disruptive to others.

When you page someone, remember it can take several seconds to a minute for your message to get through. It’s not realistic to expect them to call you back instantly.

If you are expecting an important page while attending an event like a movie, show or lecture, try to sit as close to an exit or aisle seat as possible. That way fewer people will be disturbed when you get up to respond or make the return call.

If your date is important to you, don’t give them a mixed message about that by bringing your pager or cell phone. Or, if you must bring them, turn them off or to vibration only and check your messages later - preferably after your social evening has ended. Of course, some professionals are usually “on call”, even during social hours. If you are one of those, best explain that up front to your date, just in case.