Arrrghh. Can't take a day off without work calling me.

My advice to those of you who can avoid it, never get a work cell phone. Tends to give them a sense of being able to call you anything and all the time.

I will not be renewing. Too mcuh trouble, not enough benefit.

I don't have a critical role (as demonstrated by my salary), though they act like they can't get by a single day without me.

"Ohh, yeah. Well it was my day off so I was out (grocery shopping, bike riding, at the movies, working in the yard, running errands, whatever activity you want) and I must have missed the call."

You can listen to the message and call back later in the day, but don't let them cut into your off time unless it really is a life or death thing. (Just listen to the message right after they leave it so you know if it really is or not.)

I have a boss that apparently can't do anything for himself and sometimes calls me on my off days asking me asinine questions. Unless something is on fire or I know only I can answer the question, I try to let him figure it out on his own and I don't feel bad about it.

I've been with other providers for years, but my own company made us an offer I can no longer refuse. And Verizon is now settling with customers who, like me, were rooked with incomplete Bluetooth implementation. Destiny, it would seem, is calling me.

I turn off my cell as soon as I get home, anyway.

Our new department policy is that you have to be available even on your days off. In fact, when you submit a leave request you now have to fill in a section on contact information. We were in Colorado this past summer on vacation and not a day went by without someone from the office calling. My husband was furious. He really got PO'd one day when we were in Rocky Mountain National Park and my phone rang. I answered it and all the attorney wanted was to know when I was coming back to the office - hello, read my absence memo fool. I thought my husband was going to throw my phone into the small lake we were looking at.

contact info for the employees at all times would lay them off if they could save a quarter?