Ask HN: Calling personal phone for work related matters?
I was wondering what people on hacker news have to say about people calling on your personal phone for work related matters.
Most of the time when I get a call, I don't pick it up unless I know who it is. It's a bit like my hotmail email, mostly spam or formal things.
I'm not American, so it may be a little different here.
I don't think we have voice conversations anymore. If we're discussing a future project for work, it's almost entirely in text up to 3 AM. A chat with my wife or daughter is all text message and stickers.
Off hours and when I'm not on call? This had better be flipping important to be calling me, like people could lose employment if my specific knowledge is not leveraged in a timely fashion. If it is big enough, I'd let it slide.
Some companies also require (or at least encourage wink-wink) you to set up mobile access to your email/slack/whatever and you have to do it on your personal mobile, knowing that now your personal device has data owned by your company so there's all kinds of legal implications and of course you have to give elevated access to the admins so that they can wipe the thing if things go south...
If I understand correctly even Europe does not require employers to provide business phone, leave alone the US. Hopefully something will be done about it at some point.
It helps compartmentalize. If I don't expect escalations this week I turn it off
And even then, drastically limit exposure of number to people.