Phone calls during driving lessons
Is it o.k. for an instructor answer his mobile during a driving lesson? Apparently it is. Got a call yesterday about 10.50/55am, the lesson finished 11am pupil gone, I checked my voice mail. A lady wanted to book some lessons for her son.
Got my wife to call her, text from my wife before the next lesson started at 11.30 which said the lady had gone else where. When my wife called the lady her answer was, "She'd gone with someone who answers the phone ."
I make it clear on the web site and everywhere that I do not answer the phone during your lesson time and to phone the home number. Quite often when my phone rings a pupil will say something like, "You can answer that."
I know these days it appears acceptable to answer your phone, have/continue a conversation where ever you are or whatever you're doing. I'm an old fuddy duddy and don't believe it is.
Got my wife to call her, text from my wife before the next lesson started at 11.30 which said the lady had gone else where. When my wife called the lady her answer was, "She'd gone with someone who answers the phone ."
I make it clear on the web site and everywhere that I do not answer the phone during your lesson time and to phone the home number. Quite often when my phone rings a pupil will say something like, "You can answer that."
I know these days it appears acceptable to answer your phone, have/continue a conversation where ever you are or whatever you're doing. I'm an old fuddy duddy and don't believe it is.
The moral of this little rant is, you have paid me for a one hour driving lesson, five minutes into your lesson my mobile rings so I get you to park at the side of the road and spend the next twenty minutes or so, of your paid for time, trying to persuade someone to book a driving lesson with me. You think that's acceptable?
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