are you allowed to use your cell phone while working?

[GeekDrew]

Weird because I work in the telecom industry and I've never heard of that.

What job function within telecom?

 

[FDF12389]

Yes, most of time I'm using it for work anyway.

 

[Imp]

Psh... People call family/friends/whatever on their land line every day. Even business calls turn personal when people know each other well enough. Gotta be a nazi workplace not to allow them.

Obviously, as long as professional courtesy and common sense is maintained.

 

[Drako]

I've worked in buildings in the past that were TEMPEST enclosures, so having a cell phone would be pointless anyway

 

[zerocool84]

No restrictions at all. We're a relaxed environment and we can mess around and we even shot Nerf guns at each other but because when work needs to get done we get it done.

 

[rudeguy]

That doesn't even make sense. All cellphones have cameras now.

And even if you can find 1 or 2 that don't, soon I guarantee you won't be able to find a single one

What is this...international trolling day?

Blackberry specifically makes a phone without a camera because so many places don't allow cameras.

My job is in a call center where they are worried about people downloading customer data and/or sensitive company documents. The other factor is people are idiots and text instead of answering phones.

 

[Aikouka]

any SCIF (SCI facility).

Liked how i explained an acronym with another one? Welcome to the realm of gov related work.

Not sure why you're getting as "serious" as TS/SCI. I'm pretty sure that you can't have a cell phone in a classified area (unless it belongs in that area or you're somehow given permission).

 

[MotionMan]

Yes (except in court, of course).

MotionMan

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Jeez... I run 2500-3000 minutes a month and it's almost all done at work. If I couldn't use my phone at work I couldn't work.

 

[Anubis]

What is this...international trolling day?

Blackberry specifically makes a phone without a camera because so many places don't allow cameras.

My job is in a call center where they are worried about people downloading customer data and/or sensitive company documents. The other factor is people are idiots and text instead of answering phones.

lol i send like 500 texts a month. 400 of those are about work and are to someone on the other side of the building

i average less then 100 minutes a month, its been that low for prob 2+ years, VZW didn't like my idea of lowering the cost of my plan because of that

 

[RockinZ28]

Company cell phone yes, unless driving.

Technically not even supposed to use my personal cell on company time, but yea right. How else can I send/receive work emails from the field? Also use it for gps nav.

Hopefully they'll be getting me a new blackberry for my company phone next year.

 

[alkemyst]

What kind of work?

someone's bitch?

 

[x-alki]

If I dont use my cell phone at work I'd probably be fired, then I'd have to move in with rudeguy. Work paid for the phone.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

That doesn't even make sense. All cellphones have cameras now.

And even if you can find 1 or 2 that don't, soon I guarantee you won't be able to find a single one

That's what 8000 people in my organization said! Here are my shitty options

I have a sad little phone, a Nokia 1100 that I bought 3 years ago when I joined my current employer. That was the absolute cheapest phone Nokia manufactured (less than $25 new, unlocked) and I didn't feel like buying anything nicer (had a Nokia N95 already). I figured I would wait for someone to make a decent non-camera phone with GPS, WLAN and a half-decent email app. Apparently there was a Nokia E51 camerafree edition but that was never sold here. Could only find it online at inflated prices so I dropped the idea.

 

[Shawn]

work isnt that strict...its frowned upon to use it at your desk but if its a short call nobody really cares. most people walk outside or to the breakroom for a call. nobody seems to care about texting and such, just have the courtesy not to allow it to interrupt conversations with others.

this

 

[Merad]

Allowed?

Where I work people don't treat you like you're a child. You take calls when appropriate based on appropriate behavior and common sense.

We don't all work at McDonalds like you apparently do.

Grow up and try working in a job where people trust you with their personal info.

Or are you saying that you won't mind me taking some pics of your bank account and posting them to ATOT, since obviously my company is retarded for banning cell phones?

 

[SparkyJJO]

Yes, I use the phone - both voice and text - throughout the day. Of course that's because it is work related, with texts/calls between coworkers, the boss, some clients, etc.

 

[vi edit]

Grow up and try working in a job where people trust you with their personal info.

Or are you saying that you won't mind me taking some pics of your bank account and posting them to ATOT, since obviously my company is retarded for banning cell phones?

I've worked for a stock broker and they weren't prohibited and I currently work in the IT side of healthcare and they aren't prohibited there either. Both of those industries have very strong privacy laws in place that I'm personally accountable for if information is leaked and I'm responsible for it. My employers have defaulted to the federal laws rather than their own.

 

[Merad]

I've worked for a stock broker and they weren't prohibited and I currently work in the IT side of healthcare and they aren't prohibited there either. Both of those industries have very strong privacy laws in place that I'm personally accountable for if information is leaked and I'm responsible for it. My employers have defaulted to the federal laws rather than their own.

Maybe they can get away with just relying on the laws. We OTOH provide services for every major bank in the country (plus innumerable smaller banks & credit unions), and handle payment processing for thousands of merchants. We let someone fuck up, and we stand to lose a LOT of business.

 

[GeekDrew]

<edit>nevermind</edit>

 

[vi edit]

Maybe they can get away with just relying on the laws. We OTOH provide services for every major bank in the country (plus innumerable smaller banks & credit unions), and handle payment processing for thousands of merchants. We let someone fuck up, and we stand to lose a LOT of business.

A lot of these company policies are nothing more than chest pounding anyway. There's nothing stopping me from printing off a list of information and sticking it in my lunchbox and walking out with it. Or downloading it to a jump drive...which weren't monitored either. Or attaching it to a hotmail account and sending it. Or faxing it out. And so on.

If I want data I'm going to get it.