I'm 44 and I realized last Sunday that the reason I keep my phone face-down on the counter isn't a habit, it's that twenty years of being on-call for everyone trained my body to treat a screen-up phone as a job I haven't clocked out of
The face-down phone isn't a habit, it's a body trying to enforce a boundary against a workplace that has no walls. What twenty years of being on-call actually trained into me, and why the gesture matters more than the rule....
