People never learn, no matter how you pester them with the preaching of etiquettes of “civilized society”. I am not talking about rules which are imposed, but the common sense which an educated person supposed to possess.
Few days back our client CEO had come to have a look at offshore development facility. Initially he was expected
to address his offshore relationship alone. Later it was relaxed and opened for all, since he was expected to share some “gyan” on world economics. Our Auditorium has some portraits of few great people lived inIndia (of course with those etiquettes), but biggest among them all a notice “please switch off your mobiles”.
CEO was on his middle of his speech, one by one cell phones started ringing. In that air-conditioned auditorium, with the pin drop silence and imagine how irritating a high-frequency cell phone ring will be. CEO obviously noticed it, but said nothing. He wasn’t there for teaching corporate etiquettes. For him its not just irritation, it’s an insult
When one cell phone rings loudly we tend to look our cell phone for having it off, if it is not already. But that dint happen for most of the donkeys sitting in the room. After few minutes some other was getting call in “uyiren uyiren” ring tone…!!!
Luckily these idiots did not pick the call up. During my graduation one idiot classmate of mine received call and said “Darling, I am in class room … can I call you later”.
How hard it is to switch OFF? Never in my life (life started after economic reforms), people observed I was getting a call.
For all those mentally challenged, below per capita common since, I have compiled few points.
- Switching it OFF: If you still haven’t learned how to keep your cell in vibrator mode, Switch OFF your cell phone when you are there in seminars, meetings, movies etc. (keeping it ON in religious places is left to you. It’s a very small chance that I might be there and get irritated.). Any one, who is trying to reach you, will call you again later, if it is important.
- Silent mode. : When you leave to work keep it in vibrator mode. It is very easy to get notified when your cell is in vibrator mode, than with a ring tone, especially when you are there in traffic.
- Make your cell phone silent in movies and public gathering. You might confuse lot other people, with “Is that my phone … which is ringing “?
- Permission: when you get a call (of course it is in vibrator mode) and you are in a meeting, ask permission to talk to the phone. And when you are doing it make your phone conversation very short.
- Feel free to cut a incoming call. When you do it, the person at the other end gets notified “the User you are trying to reach is busy”
Everyone knows these features and etiquettes. But nobody cares to follow, May because they read a T-shirt in the morning asking them to “break all the rules”.
Ten years are over since cell phones introduced inIndia, and you are still fascinated with the ring tone…??? Grow up…!!! And if it is for showing off, every one has a cell phone for crying out loud.
The Bach 
Some stubborns still say “rules are meant to be broken”!!
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because education doesn’t necessarily impart wisdom.
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Maaro sab ko pakad ke tabhi sudhrenge.
Apna Bihar kaa to yahi ek rule hai.
Agar sikhana hai etiquette,
to maaro belt – e – belt
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good write-up dude…
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prashanth,
that it self is a rule ..;-) . I know this is there around , so I used “common sense.”
kaushik,
Again its not wisdom also. Freedom is ” You can always swing your hand the way you like, make sure it does not touch someone else’s nose”.
tarang,
Guess it will works there. But one thing is for sure .. ” gandhi-giri ” is out of date in just few months.
Guranna,
Thanks
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Nice thought, but you can sounnd litte neutral. Try not to be judgemental as much!! Sorry If I speak like giving Gyan..
We have a theatre Ranga Shankara here, they do an announcement before the show begins, generally people maintain a piin-drop silence.
I attended a show there, ‘Iti ninna Amrutha’ was the show name.
somebody’s cell rang, people were so irritate when it rang for 3 times, it was so obvious that atleast that person could put the cell off.. Nobody knew why he couldn’t .. There can be a reason like, he doesn’t know how to do.. MOTOROLA Mobiles do not have any switches at the top (like Nokia), it works more like computer where you need to keep a set of keys pressed for loooooong… There is a possiblity, that guy had no clue about it.
I am not concluding that what’s right or wrong.. Certainly keeping in the silent mode is a best option, or auto answer/SMS!!
Switching off the cell sometime causes tension.. not for you, but for others!!
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These are good tips.. Its amazing that despite constant reminders people dont switch their phones off or at least put it in silent mode… same thing happens on the plane…
Heres one thing I saw last week. Was attending a lecture where we were told to mute our phone.. so this guys phone starts ringing… the guy takes out his mobile phone from his pocket and is trying to look at the number… the damn thing is STILL ringing… by this time the entire audience and speaker are looking at him.. he doesn’t care.. picks up his phone and casually starts talking.. until someone asked him point blank to go outside…
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Veenaji,
I am sounding neutral here. I dint have much sarcasm here, as I usually do.
“Ranga shankara” must be theater for classic plays right? I understand how irritating it could be if a cell rings middle of something very classic. Most of the time its not ignorance is not the reason. Its arrogance, attitude.
Vijay,
Exactly…!!, this attitude which irritates me.
About “Darling, I am in class room … can I call you later”. Example I gave you in my post, I wasn’t in the classroom (I bunked). Professor got pissed; he had an experience of more than our age. He never brings his phone to the classroom, so that it should not disturb him even if it is in vibrator mode. Student got blasting, comes out and says “professor ge vriddhapyada marulu”… now what to say?
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In what animal welfare advocates are describing as a historic advance, Burger King, the worlds second-largest hamburger chain, said yesterday that it would begin buying eggs and pork from suppliers that did not confine their animals in cages and crates.
The company said that it would also favor suppliers of chickens that use gas, or controlled-atmospheric stunning, rather than electric shocks to knock birds unconscious before slaughter. It is considered a more humane method, though only a handful of slaughterhouses use it.
The goal for the next few months, Burger King said is for 2 percent of its eggs to be cage free, and for 10 percent of its pork to come from farms that allow sows to move around inside pens, rather than being confined to crates. The company said those percentages would rise as more farmers shift to these methods and more competitively priced supplies become available.
The cage-free eggs and crate-free pork will cost more, although it is not clear how much because Burger King is still negotiating prices, Steven Grover, vice president for food safety, quality assurance and regulatory compliance, said. Prices of food at the chains restaurants will not be increased as a result.
While Burger Kings initial goals may be modest, food marketing experts and animal welfare advocates said yesterday that the shift would put pressure on other restaurant and food companies to adopt similar practices.
I think the whole area of social responsibility, social consciousness, is becoming much more important to the consumer, said Bob Goldin, executive vice president of Technomic, a food industry research and consulting firm. I think that the industry is going to see that its an increasing imperative to get on that bandwagon.
Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive of the Humane Society of the United States, said Burger Kings initiatives put it ahead of its competitors in terms of animal welfare.
Thats an important trigger for reform throughout the entire industry, Mr. Pacelle said.
Burger Kings announcement is the latest success for animal welfare advocates, who were once dismissed as fringe groups, but are increasingly gaining mainstream victories.
Last week, the celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck announced that the meat and eggs he used would come from animals raised under strict animal welfare codes.
And in January, the worlds largest pork processor, Smithfield Foods, said it would phase out confinement of pigs in metal crates over the next decade.
Some city and state governments have banned restaurants from serving foie gras and have prohibited farmers from confining veal calves and pigs in crates.
Temple Grandin, an animal science professor at Colorado State University, said Smithfields decision to abandon crates for pregnant sows had roiled the pork industry. That decision was brought about in part by questions from big customers like McDonalds, the worlds largest hamburger chain, about its confinement practices.
When the big boys move, it makes the entire industry move, said Ms. Grandin, who serves on the animal welfare task forces for several food companies, including McDonalds and Burger King.
Burger Kings decision is somewhat at odds with the rebellious, politically incorrect image it has cultivated in recent years.
Its commercials deride chick food and encourage a more-is-more approach to eating with its turbo-strength coffee, its enormous omelet sandwich, and a triple Whopper with cheese.
Burger King executives said the move was driven by their desire to stay ahead of consumer trends and to encourage farmers to move into more humane egg and meat production.
We want to be doing things long before they become a concern for consumers, Mr. Grover said. Like a hockey player, we want to be there before the puck gets there.
He said the company would not use the animal welfare initiatives in its marketing. I dont think its something that goes to our core business, Mr. Grover said.
Beef cows were not included in the new animal welfare guidelines because, unlike most laying hens and pigs, they continue to be raised outdoors. Burger King already has animal welfare standards for cow slaughter, he said.
The changes were made after discussions with the Humane Society and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, known as PETA.
PETA, in particular, has started a series of high-profile campaigns to pressure fast-food companies to change their animal welfare practices, including a Murder King campaign that ended in 2001 when Burger King agreed to improve its animal welfare standards to include, among other things, periodic animal welfare audits.
Since that time, PETA officials said they had met periodically with Burger King officials to encourage them to adopt tougher standards. About a year ago, the Humane Society began its own efforts to encourage Burger King to improve its farm animal standards.
Mr. Grover said his company listened to suggestions from both groups, but ultimately relied on the advice of its animal welfare advisory board, which was created about six years ago and includes academics, an animal welfare advocate, an executive of Tyson Foods and Burger King officials.
Where we think we can support what our animal advisers think is right, we do it, Mr. Grover said.
The changes apply to Burger King suppliers in America and Canada, where the chain purchases more than 40 million pounds of eggs a year and 35 million pounds of pork, he said.
A reason that such a small percentage of purchases will meet the new guidelines is a lack of supply, Mr. Grover said.
Burger King plans to more than double its cage-free purchases by the end of this year, to 5 percent of the total, and will also double its purchases of pork from producers who do not use crates, to 20 percent.
Most laying hens in the United States are raised in battery cages, which are usually stacked on top of each other three to four cages high. Sows, during their pregnancies, are often kept in gestation crates, which are 24 inches across and 7 feet long.
Matt Prescott, PETAs manager for factory farm campaigns, argued that both confinement systems were filthy and cruel because the animals could barely move and were prone to injury and psychological stress.
Under Burger Kings initiative, laying hens would be raised in buildings where they would be able to wander around. Similarly, sows would be raised indoors, most likely in pens where they would be able to move freely.
This is not free range, but simply having some room to move around inside a controlled environment, Mr. Grover said.
While converting barns for crate-free sows is relatively simple, Ms. Grandin said it was much more difficult and expensive to raise cage-free hens because not nearly as many birds fit in one building.
Burger King officials say they hope that by promoting controlled-atmosphere stunning, more slaughterhouses will adopt the technology. Currently, there are only a few in the United States using the technique, and most of them process turkeys.
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Yes,Most of them turn deaf years to such etiquettes but if it comes to them they dont spare anyone.Everyone should follow the dictum,”Treat Thy Neighbour as Thyself.”
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