Tired of employees looking at their cell phones during important meetings? So is an award-winning actress who called out a reporter who was more involved with his phone than with her appearance at a press conference. And it seems she got some “Joy” from laying down the law to him.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, fresh from winning a Golden Globe for her performance in the movie “Joy,” Jennifer Lawrence was ushered into a pressroom filled with reporters.
After expressing her surprise that her friend Amy Schumer had not won, she took questions from the assembled writers. When one reporter asked her about “Oscar night,” the paper says she responded with, “We’re at the Golden Globes. If you put your phone down, you’d know that!”
He then asked the question a second time!
Seems the feisty actress, who, as HRSBT has reported, called out Hollywood for not paying male and female actors equally for the same work, had enough and wasn’t going to let him off the hook. Obviously, says the paper, his staring at his phone during the entire press session had distracted her.
“You can’t live your whole life behind your phone, bro,” she told him. “You can’t do that. You gotta live in the now. ”
What makes the situation even more cringe-worthy is that the reporter was definitely on the job for his news outlet during this entire exchange—not good for his performance review!
So, we wonder if this tactic of calling out transgressors of your cell phone policy would work during a meeting, when employees seem to be staring into their laps but really are looking at their phones held under the table. Even better, would it work when a cell phone left “on” rings during an important presentation? Well, maybe laying down the law only works if you are J. Law.