If you are in a work meeting and can’t answer and your phone pocket texts and then your spouse yells and freaks out on you, does that make you inconsiderate?

No, not at all.

Nope .. It relfects badly on HER .. Not you.

No, it does not really reflect on you, unless you answer the phone or text, or if you do not silence your phone during the meeting. I sit in meetings all the time and I silence my phone, I do check it to see who just called or texted, as it may be important due to my position, but if it is not extremely important, it gets ignored until after the meeting. My wife is BiPolar and when she is in an episode, she has no patience when I cannot answer my phone because I'm in a meeting. I still ignore the call or text, and still keep my phone on silent. It really, as Bikergirl said reflects on her.

Having been the person who has held meetings, I can tell you if you had a phone going off in the meeting you would have been considered rude and inconsidrate to me and your fellow employees. Just because it is on vibrate doesn't mean others can't hear it. Your phone should have been left at your desk or turned off. The only exception would have been if there was a personal issue you knew was going on and needed to be kept up to date on, in which case you need to say something before the meeting. If emergency comes up while at the meeting your spouse can call the office phone and have someone interupt the meeting.

Having been a spouse who was at home and needed to talk to my husband, I would call once every half hour unless it was an emergency. And as I said if he didn't answer his phone I would call the receptionist and tell her there was an emergency and ask him to call home. The only time I did that was when my father had a heart attack and I was making plans to leave the following morning.