BOL:! “That’s why my former employer never got my cell phone number. If you’re not payin’ me 24/7 then I’ll see you at work otherwise plan accordingly. Or set up a “call in” program to see if some catastrophe has occurred requiring you to come in.”
Decades ago, my wife bought me the famous Motorala Flip phone so she and our family could contact me if necessary. I was in sales at that time, and I never told my immediate boss or my company that I owned a cell phone. The company at the time refused to pay for cell phones. Key customers had the number with a “please never let my company know my number” from me. My immediate family had my number and a few key customers. That was it.
One day my manager was working with me, and we needed a signature from a key customer for a new contract. She was busy and wanted to review the contract and then she would call me after she reviewed and to sign the contract.
In my car, my boss said how is she going to call you. I said on my cell phone. He wanted to know how long I had my cell phone and why didn’t he know the number? My reply how long I owned a cell phone was my business. Since my wife bought the phone, and I paid for it’s monthly service package. No one in the company would get the number. Later the key customer called me and told me to come in for her signing.
He was ticked.
After I got my cell phone, I stopped answering my company voice mail at 5 pm and didn’t use voice mail until 8:30 am the next day. I never used voice mail during the weekends, holidays or while on vacation. It drove my managers nuts, but they were not willing to pay me overtime to use voice mail on my time.
LOL! Rebel!