Nomophobic...are you?

[tjr42px]

Aside from improperly using the word phobia; how much anxiety does not having your phone create for you?

I'm mild, but only because I'd be nervous my wife would be anxious. I was pulled kicking and screaming into the smartphone age.

[schicksal]

I'm indifferent these days. It used to bug me but then I realized that before I had a mobile the world didn't end if someone called and I wasn't home. Also everyone has gotten used to me being unreachable since the building I work was built in a way so that wireless signals don't penetrate much more than 6' from exterior walls.

[tjr42px]

Nov 11, 2015 7:49:30 GMT -5 schicksal said:

I'm indifferent these days. It used to bug me but then I realized that before I had a mobile the world didn't end if someone called and I wasn't home. Also everyone has gotten used to me being unreachable since the building I work was built in a way so that wireless signals don't penetrate much more than 6' from exterior walls.

Prison? Intel? Research facility? Area 51? Can I get another clue?

[schicksal]

Haha nothing that interesting. I work for a huge airplane manufacturer. The building I'm in has insulation that has metal on the outside - that's probably what blocks mobile signals but it wasn't done intentionally. Whenever I get close to an exterior wall and my phone works again I get every notification that it can make all at once. It's like on The Office when someone would get a Wuphf.

[tjr42px]

I used to work in a jail, then prison so got very used to leaving it in a locker or just not taking it at all.

I was in a hanger the other day that has small buildings/rooms built inside it. I had to lock my phone out side the building just to sign my name on a piece of paper. There was a few filing cabinets, a modest desk, and chair in there. That was all. Such a boring existence for the guy working in there. And he said as much considering he didn't have his phone and his computer was not plugged into the network. I wonder what he did wrong to get that assignment.

[schicksal]

Classified information area, or an organization with similar IT protocols. This and more are things friends had to deal with every day. Not me, I never held a clearance.

[tjr42px]

Yeah. They can keep their TS/SCI clearance if they try to shove me in a box and bore me to death.