Mobile phones
5.7.11And here's another thing what about mobile phones? This is something else that I've never truly embraced.
I reckon that I got my first mobile phone about 23 years ago. It was just before I started the business. I remember it well, it was a Motorola, a really cute product that fitted the breast pocket of my shirt - unheard of in those days. You could buy an 'extended life' battery which just about doubled the size of the product and meant that it would last a whole day without having to re charge it!
You have to remember that not many people had 'mobiles' in those days, certainly not for 'social' reasons.
It was at about this time that I found myself dividing my time between a part time lecturing role at the University and running my fledgling business single handed. The 'mobile' enabled me to be 'on tap' to all my clients at any time, regardless of where I was - in the studio or in the lecture theatre or at home. It is this, that I think has for ever coloured my view of mobile phones.
I like to moderate when and who can contact me, but desperate to always be available to the few clients I had, the phone would remain switched on pretty much as long as the battery would permit. The inevitable consequence being that the phone would ring mid lecture and I would be in the embarrassing position of having to excuse myself from a room full of students to take the call.
Yes, I know, you can always turn them off, but the thought if a client ringing during business hours and receiving answer phone message filled me with dread.
The problem was, that the more ardent clients would ring me during the evenings and at weekends which I found a real intrusion of privacy.
Since then, I've always had a real love/hate relationship with 'mobiles' and never really embraced them as a social tool in the way that most people seem to have. Call me a miserable old git (and many do!) but I don't like being available to everyone all the time. I like to get out of the studio from time to time without being 'available'.
And to this day, the first thing that any new member of staff that joins us here at sanders' is told is "don't whatever you do give out the bosses mobile number"!
Julian SandersManaging DirectorSandersLabels: Design, Technology
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