Why can't my co-workers realize I am on the phone?
957402
A girl in my office created little cards that read "On the Phone", "Lunch", "Meeting"  etc. and put it in her cubicle doorway.  That works.  My manager used to close her door.
876867
My friend prentends to vomit while phoning her male boss - or starts talking 'time of the month.' They might not believe her, but they don't want to stay on the phone either!
783172
Call your supervisor and let him/her make the call.
174888
I have one job that does not allow employee cell phones on the premise.  However, it isn't enforced regularily. I had some managers that let me use my phone in front of them or would use their own in front of the employees while I had another one threaten to fire me. \n\nEmployees were allowed to make phone calls from a pay phone whenever they wanted. I mostly keep my phone with me in case of emergencies, and because everyone I know has a different area code, therefore long distance, from the one in which I work.\n\nMy other job has a policy of personal discretion. It's not smart to use your phone in front of customers or to have the ringer bothering people around you, but if you have to make a quick phone call, it's not a problem.
265599
Wow!\n\nI worked for a big manufacturer 20,000 employees at peak!\n\nI allowed the phone to be used for personal use as I had quite a large number of ladies with families (who had children) worked in keypunch / data entry area.  Also had guys getting dates!  People have lives, outside of work.\n\nNow here is where one person can  and has messed it up for everyone else.  I ran storerooms where workers would come up to get bolts and fasteners ... One of my storekeepers held up a line of workers by talking on the phone! Resulting in my having to take the "out of yard access" privilege out of all the yard telephones!  So that no storekeeper could call out of yard unless he/she called the office for access code for that one event!  It was a pain for all of us! Caused by the abuse of that one individual! Messed it up for over 54 other employees!\n\nThat's usually how it happens.  My areas usually self-policed, the people realized that I would work with them.  It was US not ME and THEM - WE were a team!\n\nYOU as an employee really know when you push it to far!  You really are not paid to talk to friends and the conversations are not necessary  conversations.\n\nOn the other hand ... Doctor appointments ... hairdo ... school ...  etc ...  these are mandatory!  and vital for existence!\n\nUse the above as a guideline, I would call it my version of common sense.\n\n\nHave a good day,\n\nAPS
1003961
I don't believe they have the right to demand that you not carry your cell phone.  Unless it impedes the quality or safety of your work.  Or are just worried about inneffeciency in the temptation of using your cell phone during work.  I wouldn't see that happening though.  Your employer might just be uptight.
844442
Well do you work in an office?  Are you supposed to be on the phone at work?\n  I work in an office and just about all of my conversations the other people can hear.  I rarely make personal calls from work so it's not a big deal very often.  \n  If you have an office first thing to do is close the door.  If not and you are on more of an open area what you should do is to just tell them that it is just work stuff and really isn't important.\n  If it is personal stuff then that's another issue. When I got personal calls, I always kept them very short and to the point.  I never bring my cell phone to work, and alot of companys frown on people  who do.\n  Being on the other side of this, nothing annoyed me more than when I saw people at work chatting on their cell phones for 20 minutes at time to their wives, girlfriends, ect.  It's just not the time for that.  I have had employees wives call work 5-10 times a night on a constant basis because they had issues at home.  I have even taken it to a point where when they would call I had a conversation with the wife saying . "look James can't talk to you right now, and your constant calling is gonna get him in trouble very soon. Please stop calling here on a nightly basis."
547032
do you have the "wait and see" feature thru your phone company? if not, then you won't be able to see incoming calls with call waiting. and of course you have to have a caller id phone.
700435
A lot of stores, especially in the malls, are adopting the policy that if you are on a cell phone you will not be served.  I think this is a great idea. You may want to ask your manager what your stores specific policy is on this..whether it is acceptable, if you are busy, for you to politely ask this person to step aside so you can take care of the next customer.\n\nIt amazes me how many people answer their phones in movie theatres, college lectures, libraries and anywhere else they darned well want to! Whatever happened to good manners?
877103
You polite?  Christ, now I've heard it all... anyway the way I deal with them is to say the following: \n\n"I'm busy can I call you back at around 11 tonight"\nThey will usually reply and say I'm not here then, I'm at home\n"oh give me your home number then and I will call you there"\nThey say we can't give out our home numbers\n"oh can I not call you at home then?"\nno\n"what makes you think you can fecking call me at home then you daft feckwit?" \n\nNormally they hang up.
656193
Probably.  Some people just get shy when they talk on the phone.  It's nothing to worry about.
195339
Unfortunatly, they can call you at work, if you made your work number available to them. The only thing you can do to keep from getting into trouble on the job is to not accept personal calls at work. Where I used to work, in a call center, if I got a call at work, and it was of a personal nature, I wasn't taken offline unless it was an extreem emergency.
266866
Call from somebody else's phone, they will not know the number
902303
they're co-workers.  not your friends.  you don't have to necessarily explain yourself.  but, like the others mentioned, the printer is distracting, and tell them they're welcome to use that cubicle.\n\neither that, or just tell them the voices in your head said to move to the other office, and you'd rather move instead of go postal on them.  see if they agree.
818306
When I am in a meeting I delegate another person ( not in the meeting) to handle any urgent phone calls\nmy cell phone is OFF when I am in a meeting\nI consider taking phone calls during a meeting  rude  behaviour and a insult to all those in the meeting
773570
Hard to tell, but perhaps it says queue, as in you are in queue and monitoring equipment would would converse with you. Makes no sense I know, but I have never heard of anything of the sort, and of course things don't when you can't even trace the call. On my machine at home, there are times when someone will call, and either I don't pick up or aren't home. Anyway, if it's a computer calling, many of the times messages are left, it believes that it's talking to a human and it says that it will connect me with the next available representative, therefor being on queue.
851436
If you are on-call, you are not required to stay on-site, but you are required to be able to be gotten ahold of when called.  If you cannot be, you can loose you job.  And you really should be close.  If you live an hour away, you shouldn't go home.  \n\nThis was probably done just for the fact above.  You get busy and can't get ahold of the employees.