In certain situations it&#x27;s to your advantage to be hard to reach.<p>When I had an admin, very few calls made it through because 95% were either un-necessary escalations or things that should have been IMs&#x2F;emails. The admin either answered the question or directed the caller or the person actually doing whatever they asked for. Some people saw that as &quot;what a dick&quot;, but my goal is to get my job done in as close to 8 hours as possible. Yacking on the phone, mostly for bullshit reasons, for 3 hours a day means I don&#x27;t get to eat dinner with my family or I&#x27;m up until midnight and don&#x27;t work out in the morning. That&#x27;s my priority.<p>The problem with the smartphone is that it&#x27;s too easy to let it transition your life to an interruption based nightmare.