re: What's your works phone policy?

Repeating, you know the answer to your own question.

You don’t like the answer but you know it.

If you don’t like it, you have a couple of options: address it with your boss (doubtful that will make a change in the policy) or change jobs.

Otherwise stop complaining and deal with it.

This should help you-

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Repeating, you know the answer to your own question

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No, I really don't know what everyone on the OT's work phone policy is. That's why I asked.

Honestly, I think my new boss is a micromanager and is trying to treat us like children. He is approximately 50, never married, and has zero social skills. Most of us are 30+, educated, successful, and have families that may need to contact us.

I repsect his approach to hard work, but I think he is going about it in a way that is going to straight up piss some good folks off.

Make sure you take a pic of him sleeping.

Blackmail works best for douchebags

Used to have 2 phones. One personal and one for NASA. I didn't like having a leash on me..but it is what it is (no more since I changed positions though).

No rules ever on personal phones unless I was in an EMI sensitive area. Then the test area rules applied. For the NASA phone I could make any call I needed personal or business or text or surf...I just had to remember NASA ITSEC policies were in effect I had no expectation of privacy (and no porn surfing etc).

Seems like your new boss is a jerk and wants everyone to do things as "Do as I say, not as I do". Lots of folks got run off from NASA when a disgruntled employee took pix of them sleeping at their console.

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Used to have 2 phones. One personal and one for NASA. I didn't like having a leash on me..but it is what it is (no more since I changed positions though).

No rules ever on personal phones unless I was in an EMI sensitive area. Then the test area rules applied. For the NASA phone I could make any call I needed personal or business or text or surf...I just had to remember NASA ITSEC policies were in effect I had no expectation of privacy (and no porn surfing etc).

Seems like your new boss is a jerk and wants everyone to do things as "Do as I say, not as I do". Lots of folks got run off from NASA when a disgruntled employee took pix of them sleeping at their console.

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Don't work in Huntsville do ya? Lol, I'll sent you my resume.

Our work has one policy for everything: ignorance is bliss.

Place is run by idiots.

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Unless you work for a tiny company, expectations always increase as “boss.”

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Expectation possibly, actual work... Debatable.

Both my current boss and my previous boss did/do very little actually. Hence my current boss having time to sleep on the job and my previous one gossiping more than a woman.

But! My previous boss was very good about staying out of your way if you were doing your job... Which I loved.

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Nobody who works for me is allowed to have a cell phone on them until lunch and after work. If I catch one of them with a phone in their pocket, they are gone instantly No phones is my policy. Zero

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If I managed in an office setting vs. outside, I'd have the same policy. If an emergency arises, they can call your desk line.

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My small company is a retail manufacturer

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I had issues with cell phone usage at my company. What I implemented was a pay for performance plan. Instead of paying them by the hour pay them by the piece or task. the more they work the more they get paid. The less they work the less they get paid. New employees were paid a base rate during training then went to the piece rate. End result cell phone usage decreased production increased almost 200%

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Nobody who works for me is allowed to have a cell phone on them until lunch and after work. If I catch one of them with a phone in their pocket, they are gone instantly

No phones is my policy. Zero

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Sounds like a fun place to work! Y'all hiring?