A phone question...

[please_use_me]

a really dull phone question. At work I have a phone with one of those loopy cords and it keeps getting twisted around itself. It's silly but it really annoys me. Does anyone have any tips on how to stop it doing that?

 

[brigid_fitch]

Those drive me crazy, too. My phone at work doesn't do that, but my co-worker's did. She bought one of these and it stopped the cord from twisting up:

Phone Cord Untanger

Now the only thing at her desk that is twisted is her.

 

[fire_breeze]

What I used to do is to have the cord run behind my chair. I usually place the phone on my left ear, so the whole thing was on my right, and when I answered it, I threw the cord behind me. It didn't get in the way and may provide a temporary solution.

 

[please_use_me]

Brilliant. Thank-you. I never realised this site would prove so satisfying. x

 

[Weird Harold]

a really dull phone question. At work I have a phone with one of those loopy cords and it keeps getting twisted around itself. It's silly but it really annoys me. Does anyone have any tips on how to stop it doing that?

Brigid's phoneline detangler work well, but the porblem with long coiled phone cords is only partially solved by a detangler.

First thing in the morning, as soon as you get to work, take the phone off the hook and starting from the phone end of the cord, untwist the cord. Hold the slack end high enough to let the handset spin freely so that the momentum of the handset will do most of the untagling for you.

Do that every morning -- and possible every lunch hour -- until you get a feel for how often you really need to take the built up twist out of the cord.

With a bit of practice, you'll be able to untangle the cord in about 30 seconds, just by running it through your fingers while the handset spins like a unbalanced Yo-Yo.

 

[Chicago69]

Cordless phone

 

[canandagirl]

Would your employer spring for a cordless headset? I have a headset at work and never have trouble with tangled cords.

If not, I agree with Weird Harold.

 

[thirty]

a really dull phone question. At work I have a phone with one of those loopy cords and it keeps getting twisted around itself. It's silly but it really annoys me. Does anyone have any tips on how to stop it doing that?

Good topic!

I cannot stand it if the phone cords are twisted.

I never think about there are any phones which are twistpfoof, what I do is to untwist the cords if I find they are twisted.
I care about it.

But I found most of people don't care: they just let it be.

I will untwist any phone cords before I use the phones even they are not mine.

 

[thirty]

Would your employer spring for a cordless headset? I have a headset at work and never have trouble with tangled cords.

If not, I agree with Weird Harold.

But the radio waves are not good for our health.

 

[IsabellaKing]

a really dull phone question. At work I have a phone with one of those loopy cords and it keeps getting twisted around itself. It's silly but it really annoys me. Does anyone have any tips on how to stop it doing that?

Put down the twisted cord and walk away from the desk.

It's the first step into OCD

 

[thirty]

Would your employer spring for a cordless headset? I have a headset at work and never have trouble with tangled cords.

If not, I agree with Weird Harold.

But the radio waves are not good for our health.

 

[Ezzy]

I work it in a similar fashion to WH.

But you may also change the position of the phone on your desk too, I am right handed, but I prefer the phone to be on the left of my desk, that way I pick it up left handed and hold it to my left ear while I write things right handed.

I used to work in an office where all the phones were on the right hand side of the desks, and there wasn't enough cord to move them to the LHS, by the end of a day I'd have the cord wrapped so tight you couldn't lift the phone more than a few inches, (slight exaggeration there).

The problem for me came when I transferred the handset from right hand to left hand, then put it back on the base left handed but with the cord on the right so the next time I pick it up it was the correct way round, the next call just made it worse. I would make a half turn on the cord changing hands, then another when I put the phone down.

I was taking over 100 calls a day and moving it to the other end of my denk solved it for me, I now pick the phone up left handed, and put it back the same way, I never get it tangled, unless someone else has been using my phone.

 

[KinkyRascal]

What about the kink?

I thought everybody here was for the kink not trying to get rid of them?