If you are running an office, naturally you need someone to man the phone. It would not look very nice if a director picks up the phone and answers it if a client is calling. It would only look nice if the call passes through 2 or 3 stages after it reaches you, and it should be worked in such a way that the issue of the caller is solved in the 2nd level itself. The clients should contact directors by mails, and the directors should be able to reply to those mails when they fell like it.
Well, I never let any one else attend calls on my mobile phone. Not even my wife. No sir. Not a single person would dare to touch my phone. Not friends not family no one. But today, I had forgotten my phone on a staff’s table when I was sitting with him for a discussion, and had gone outside for a puff of smoke, and when I came back he said that someone had called me, and to my surprise, the one who called me would not have known the office number and knows only my mobile number.
I asked him and he said that the call was on the mobile. Well, there is one way to look at it, that he is a new guy and he doesn’t know that my phone is important and that he shouldn’t be picking it up, though he might have thought that he must be helping me out by answering a call for me. But only a select list of people know my number and so my phone is exclusive.
I guess I should be talking to a Mesothelioma lawyer soon to find out how to keep your phone from being answered by people at your office when you forget it on their desks.