It's a warning. Very similar to the "warning" I received about meeting etiquette at my company. By warning it is a list of meeting dos and don'ts. Cell phone use, trying to multi-task etc. That is the warning and if you happen to be the guy who forgets to turn off the phone in a meeting with upper management and certainly if you do it more than once you are on the list as the guy who can't understand simple instructions.
Oh please. Look at how the "warning" was delivered. It was delivered in a similar *rude* manner, to show up the Camera operator that forgot to turn his phone to silent or vibrate.
Furthermore, the Canucks are not the employers of the media that cover them. They of course, moving forward, can have specific rules where they can state any media member who attend a Torts conference would be subject to a "lifetime ban" if their cell phone turns on during a press conference.
But that would be "Cutting off the nose to spite the face."
Personally, I believe it such a lack of professionalism that it should be treated in a firm manner and it was. I don't believe it was hostile either. He stopped mid sentence said it wasn't acceptable and if it happens he'll be done and then continued on.
Threatening to take his "ball and walk out." Oh please. That's like a College Professor in the middle of a lecture "threatening" to walk out if he hears a "cell phone" ring during mid-sentence. Seriously. Would that be professional and fair to the rest of the students?
It's a simple thing. My superiors don't put up with it in meetings and I don't put up with it. I have in fact asked people to leave the meeting if their damn phone rings or buzzes or if they check it. It's typically a half hour or hour out of your day and to accomplish what need sot be accomplished means concentrating on the task at hand (I'm not a believer in putting in buffer space for a meeting to gossip etc. Show up on time, concentrate on the task and end on time.)
Yeah, but the difference here is that you aren't threatening to walk away from the meeting. If he said, next time a phone goes off, that person please excuse themselves from the the PC.
So again good for Torts it was handled the way it should be handled. You don't have your phone making noise while in a meeting. What makes this even worse is this was a camera man who has zero reason to have a phone on.
Sometimes people forget to turn their phone from regular ring to silence in certain settings. I guess you haven't made that "mistake" in your life, eh?
