I was explaining to a friend of mine over a beer last week that I expected my bank to instigate another round of redundancies quite soon.
Halfway through my explanation of what this would mean to my team, Dave's PDA begun to buzz.
Without so much as a second thought he takes it out of his pocket, types in his password and begins reading his e-mail.
'No way,' he says to himself as he reads something that was obviously quite interesting, '... not golf on Saturday.'
Without so much as a glance in my direction, he begins to type out what seems to be quite a lengthy reply. Just as I'm contemplating getting up and going for a walk, he hits 'send' and puts his PDA down. He puts it right in front of him on the bar, a clear signal to me of where his priorities lie, and says: 'Sorry Alan, what were you saying?'
This has been happening quite a lot lately. I had a building contractor come over to my place yesterday to repair something electrical.