Even while cell etiquette in the workplace is divided into the Rousseau and Hobbes schools, devices like camera phones and BlackBerries -- which let people read and send e-mail while they're supposed to be paying attention to a conference call -- are raising new questions about what is and isn't appropriate behavior at work. Two current television ads for camera phones show people using the phones to humiliate or blackmail colleagues. Needless to say, Post found this a breach of good manners. "They make most people uneasy," she said.
Hastings is of like mind. "Just as you dress for success," she said, "you need to manage your gadgets for success."
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