My former employer wanted my cell number, never got it. Most of my friends don’t have it, my doctor doesn’t have it. “It’s classified, I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you,” is my attitude. It’s for emergency communication when I’m not at home, by a land line. If you call my cell and it isn’t an emergency, it will be.
For those whose employer (wannbe slave master) supplies a cell, the solution is simple: turn it off. If they threaten you to keep it on, do so—while at the office, max screen brightness, sleep off, etc. so that it is discharged by the time you leave. Also, start looking for other employment. Unless you are medical or emergency personnel, there is no excuse or reason to have your phone on 24/7/365. Show some backbone.{Climbs creakily down from soapbox.}
My former employer wanted my cell number, never got it. Most of my friends don’t have it, my doctor doesn’t have it. “It’s classified, I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you,” is my attitude. It’s for emergency communication when I’m not at home, by a land line. If you call my cell and it isn’t an emergency, it will be.
For those whose employer (wannbe slave master) supplies a cell, the solution is simple: turn it off. If they threaten you to keep it on, do so—while at the office, max screen brightness, sleep off, etc. so that it is discharged by the time you leave. Also, start looking for other employment. Unless you are medical or emergency personnel, there is no excuse or reason to have your phone on 24/7/365. Show some backbone.{Climbs creakily down from soapbox.}