:As a very fussy admin, may I relate something that happened to me. In an organisation with shared phones, I was trying to get the operator to put through a business call when a young colleague picked up an extension on the same line to made a personal call. Being rather tense, and knowing that she swore like a trooper while driving, I tactfully if rather loudly said "get off the fucking phone". She was fine with that, but an older gentleman who'd overheard it would no longer speak to me. There is no moral to this story, it's simply that your heading reminded me of it. Fortunately these primitive days of shared phones and telephone operators are long gone, I hope. . . ,