Timeline for How can you set limits on how you want to be called on the telephone?
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| Mar 1, 2021 at 21:15 | comment | added | VLAZ | @Heinzi "Not so long ago, people did not have cell phones and were completely unreachable for hours at a time" my father used to be on-call on a rotating basis before cell phones. He was required to be basically next to a phone and to give any contact numbers he might be. Usually that was home but if we were to visit somewhere like my grandmother's or some friend's place, my father would have to give out their numbers and generally plan out his on-call days to never really be more than 15-ish minutes away from a phone. I think you severely underestimate how things used to be before mobiles. | |
| Mar 1, 2021 at 0:17 | comment | added | Corey | It is not at all normal to block your close loved ones on any phone line. That you block your own daughter is not evidence that it is! It's bizarre to watch you double down on this. | |
| Feb 28, 2021 at 15:30 | history | edited | Fattie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 28, 2021 at 14:18 | comment | added | Fattie | Pls note that in the astonishing example of an asteroid striking Earth or such, I'm certain they could find a way to get through to me. Of course, obviously, in the actual example given in the question you obviously block all the non-business-line calls on any other lines, to keep things in order. | |
| Feb 28, 2021 at 14:17 | comment | added | Fattie | This discussion is really off-track now to wild examples about car accidents etc guys. Simply sticking to the actual question posed, it would be utterly, utterly normal to block such calls on the relevant phone lines. As I mention below, regarding business lines and blocking certain lines, "i block my own daughter !! on business lines so that, for her convenience she doesn't waste time/confusion on calls. don't forget this is the workplace site, we're talking about issues in a business milieu here". | |
| Feb 27, 2021 at 21:23 | comment | added | Zach Lipton | @Heinzi Much as that was the case in the not-too-recent past (and even then, people weren't always as unavailable as you'd think—in an emergency, you'd start calling places where someone could be in an effort to track them down), it's not the case now, and blocking a spouse from calling about a child's hospitalization because they called the wrong number would be unthinkable now in many families. | |
| Feb 27, 2021 at 21:10 | comment | added | computercarguy | @Heinzi, if your family is in a car wreck, you don't want to find out about it until hours later when you get home and have to call the police to find out where they are? I could list hundreds of other reasons why I'd want to be available. It's not about them calling you to fix an emergency, it's about you being able to meet them at a hospital to work with doctors & nurses for deciding medical care. Or even just to tell a child that a splinter isn't a good reason to call the EMTs. And to calm someone down so they can call the EMTs. "Because it's always been that way" is rarely a reason. | |
| Feb 27, 2021 at 19:54 | comment | added | Heinzi | @computercarguy: I would like to point out that "being available for emergencies" is highly overrated: Not so long ago, people did not have cell phones and were completely unreachable for hours at a time. If an emergency happens, 112 (or 911, depending on your country) is the number to call. Everything else is not life-threatening and, thus, can wait. | |
| Feb 27, 2021 at 17:35 | comment | added | computercarguy | This is a good answer, except for that last paragraph. I find it completely bizarre that people would block their spouses, children, etc. on any phone. If there's an emergency at home, I would think people need to know about it, instead of having to go through hoops of "which phone do I call them on". | |
| Feb 27, 2021 at 17:15 | comment | added | Luke | "People completely normally block their spouses" - Maybe it's me, but I can't see that going over well! :) | |
| Feb 27, 2021 at 15:09 | vote | accept | Jhonnytunes | ||
| Feb 27, 2021 at 14:38 | history | answered | Fattie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |