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I disagree with the practice of using your personal cell phone for business purposes.
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1007966" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p><strong>Re: I disagree with the practice of using your personal cell phone for business purpo</strong></p><p></p><p>I use the DIAD for <em>most</em> communication with the center, but <em>on an exception basis </em>I will use my cell phone under unusual or urgent circumstances. There are situations when immediate verbal communication is simply in everyone's best interest.</p><p></p><p> I do <em>not</em> give my cell phone number out to customers. I do <em>not</em> call pickup accounts and ask if they are shipping anything; they are paying for us to show up every day and that is the service I am paid to give them. In the interest of safety I <em>do</em> make exceptions to this rule under severe weather conditions. I do <em>not</em> call customers ahead of time with COD information. I do <em>not</em> generally do address corrections with my phone, but in the case of Next Day Air packages or packages that I know to be medication I will bend that rule and call the customer if the apartment number is missing and their phone number is on the package.</p><p></p><p>I agree that for the most part we should not be using our personal phones for company business, but there are a number of common sense exceptions to this rule and I really dont see any problem with using them on a limited basis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1007966, member: 14668"] [b]Re: I disagree with the practice of using your personal cell phone for business purpo[/b] I use the DIAD for [I]most[/I] communication with the center, but [I]on an exception basis [/I]I will use my cell phone under unusual or urgent circumstances. There are situations when immediate verbal communication is simply in everyone's best interest. I do [I]not[/I] give my cell phone number out to customers. I do [I]not[/I] call pickup accounts and ask if they are shipping anything; they are paying for us to show up every day and that is the service I am paid to give them. In the interest of safety I [I]do[/I] make exceptions to this rule under severe weather conditions. I do [I]not[/I] call customers ahead of time with COD information. I do [I]not[/I] generally do address corrections with my phone, but in the case of Next Day Air packages or packages that I know to be medication I will bend that rule and call the customer if the apartment number is missing and their phone number is on the package. I agree that for the most part we should not be using our personal phones for company business, but there are a number of common sense exceptions to this rule and I really dont see any problem with using them on a limited basis. [/QUOTE]
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