Voicemail...

[GZBILL]

If I don't call my fiancee before she goes to bed, she calls me at work. If I am leading a meeting, I can't answer. She will call several times and I just have to ignore. She gets pissed and says, "Work's more important than me!" She just doesn't understand. She expects me to answer the phone no matter what, if only to say, "I will call you back later." She doesn't mind leaving messages telling me I had better call her back ...lol.

 

It can be annoying in a cinema when people answer their phones in China. When I pay up to $15 a piece to watch a crappy movie, I expect to be able to hear it.

 

Yes, phone calls are permitted to interrupt anything here and it is annoying, but it is starting to change.

 

People would be in meetings or seminars and answer their cell phones. We have a policy now at work that you can be placed in the PPIP (Poor Performance Improvement Program) and eventually fired for use of cell phones under inappropriate circumstances.

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Phones ringing, then, you hear a loud, "Wei," (hello in Chinese) proceeded by what seems to be a conversation being carried out on the tarmac of a major airport.

Sooooooooo true. My SO will go into my voicemail and I can hear her and her house noise for 10 minutes without her saying a thing! I have told her repeatedly but it has not sunk in yet.