furious_gamer
Excessive happiness
Spoken like a person who is working first time behind the desk. If you owned a company, do you think its right for your employees to talk with their family/relatives/gf/bf during work hours- the hours that you pay them for??
Ask for an extension stating a reason in a professional manner. Some companies wouldn't like to see talking to their clients via your personal cellphone/email or let you do timepass by talking to your family during work time. They are paying you for that 9-12 hours including lunch/dinner break+ couple of 15 minute short breaks+ loo/ciggy breaks, so its not a wrong thing if you think about it.
I didn't say that. Restricting phones and keeping it in reception is good idea but when we have an emergency to speak with someone, we need to get permission from HR for that. This is what make me feel like a Kid. Won't we know the work etiquette. We know our responsibilities and we are not going to stand in reception(Only place where we are allowed to speak) and speak with gf/bf/family for hours? No.
Also if a client or vendor is not allowed to call our mobile then let them call us thru a extension. That one is good, right?
Even in colleges they allow us to keep mobiles with us, but restrict us to use. That would be diplomatic and professional.
r u sure none of your mates back at office use this forum ??? i can imagine what kind of policy your company would have about posting on forums and social networks..this might ruin the companies image in the media.. eh eh..
No one uses forum in our office. Even, for technical\programming related problems they are expecting colleagues help. God, i am not in that group.