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Poll: Do you switch off your mobile phone at night? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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... I leave it in the living room. Actually, my "stationary phone" is over there most of the times, also when I'm at work (elsewhere in the house) and even when I leave my home and don't need any specific apps on it.
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Ventnai 
Spain
Local time: 14:57
German to English
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It is muted from around 9 p.m. I virtually always have it with me at home but curiously won't always take it with me when I go out.
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Kay Denney
France
Local time: 14:57
French to English
I leave it on, but only answer if it's one of my children or my partner or a lodger who's out and may have lost their key. Clients would be ignored, because I couldn't trust myself to remain polite at 3am. Nobody has ever called me when I'm in bed though, probably because I only work with people in the same time zone as me.
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At night it sits in the living room (or in the place I last used it), during the day it is always with me.
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:57
Member (2008)
Italian to English
| Most boring quiz question? | Nov 2, 2021 |
Is this the most boring quiz question ever or can you think of an even more uninteresting one ?
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| Airplane mode | Nov 2, 2021 |
Airplane mode and sleep tracking app (Sleep as Android).
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| Professional suicide | Nov 2, 2021 |
Of course not. I turn the volume up too so I don’t miss job offers in the early hours from India and the Philippines, by far the best sources of work from the Scandinavian languages.
It’s first come, first served in the gig economy and we have to be available 24/7, fingers on the buzzers, snooze or you lose. Anything else would be madness.
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Ian Keith Jones Williams wrote:
I virtually always have it with me at home but curiously won't always take it with me when I go out.
I never take my mobile with me when I go out to walk my dog. My phone is too big for my hands and I’ll have my house keys plus one or two bags for the residue collection in one hand and the leash in the other one. I thought of buying a foldable mobile but I’ll wait until the price drops as I’m not paying over 1,000€ for one…
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Mr. Satan (X)
English to Indonesian
Ice Scream wrote:
Of course not. I turn the volume up too so I don’t miss job offers in the early hours from India and the Philippines, by far the best sources of work from the Scandinavian languages.
It’s first come, first served in the gig economy and we have to be available 24/7, fingers on the buzzers, snooze or you lose. Anything else would be madness.
This is so sad. Alexa, play Il barbiere di Siviglia.
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| Airplane mode | Nov 2, 2021 |
I switch off the wifi and put it in airplane mode during the night. During the day is on silence and app notifications are always off.
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| Agree, and... | Nov 2, 2021 |
Tom in London wrote:
Is this the most boring quiz question ever or can you think of an even more uninteresting one ?
... what's the difference between No and Never btw.?
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Tony Keily
Local time: 14:57
Italian to English
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I have an on/off relationship with my phone at the best of times. Maybe we spend too much time apart, I don't know.
At night it's off, but daytime it's really only on when I'm AFK.
[Edited at 2021-11-03 12:17 GMT]
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| Absolutely not my experience | Nov 2, 2021 |
Ice Scream wrote:
Of course not. I turn the volume up too so I don’t miss job offers in the early hours from India and the Philippines, by far the best sources of work from the Scandinavian languages.
It’s first come, first served in the gig economy and we have to be available 24/7, fingers on the buzzers, snooze or you lose. Anything else would be madness.
I don't recognise this, at all. While I may occasionally reply to emails of American clients in the evening at my place (not always, just when I happen to check my business mail on my phone), I never, ever am available for work during the night. Any assignment I may have missed due to that wasn't worth it anyway. My private phone (landline) can ring - but never does - 24/7, just in case something is wrong with a relative. Otherwise, people will need to ring my door bell to get me out of bed at 3 a.m. And I'm making more than a decent living, so availability during daytime only works well for me 
[Edited at 2021-11-02 15:10 GMT]
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| Misunderstood | Nov 2, 2021 |
Edith van der Have wrote: Ice Scream wrote:
Of course not. I turn the volume up too so I don’t miss job offers in the early hours from India and the Philippines, by far the best sources of work from the Scandinavian languages.
It’s first come, first served in the gig economy and we have to be available 24/7, fingers on the buzzers, snooze or you lose. Anything else would be madness.
I don't recognise this, at all. While I may occasionally reply to emails of American clients in the evening at my place (not always, just when I happen to check my business mail on my phone), I never, ever am available for work during the night. Any assignment I may have missed due to that wasn't worth it anyway. My private phone (landline) can ring - but never does - 24/7, just in case something is wrong with a relative. Otherwise, people will need to ring my door bell to get me out of bed at 3 a.m. And I'm making more than a decent living, so availability during daytime only works well for me
Chris was being heavily sarcastic. It wasn't meant to be taken seriously.
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