Cruel and unusual punishment

I feel Meg's pain. One of my (thankfully former) cow-orkers always had her mobile turned up to maximum - probably still does, if I know her - and was never ever at her desk when it rang. Well, she was never ever at her desk when customers rang either, which was also a subsidiary gripe seeing as we were an ISP heldesk, but I digress. No matter how many times I got up and turned the phone off, frequently having to excavate in her handbag to find it first, she never got the message. Until my patience ran out one day and I dug around around in her bag for the phone, switched it off, stole the SIM and replaced the phone. It was hours before she noticed it was off and longer before she found it didn't work.