Nope, This should not happen. I'm a Department Head and only use the Store Phone to contact people. If someone has my # its because I gave it to them or its another person in a leadership role.
Yesterday I got a text from another front-end employee asking me if I could cover for her at the last minute.
That employee mentioned that she was given my cell phone number.
Does your location do this?
I'm not sure about other departments in my store doing this. But all the time they would do this to me in bakery when I was part-time. As someone would call off and they would need me to cover.
But thing was, I don't know if it were leadership people or just nosy butt employees that would volunteer and be like "I'll call her. What's her number?" As I've had one of the "clique" peeps admit to me that they tried to look me up on Facebook and couldn't find me. And I'm happy about that, as I don't FB to begin with. And I don't need gossipy co-workers looking me up and judging me or my life stuff.
Not to mention, when they would call me in to cover, I'd get so many different people calling me at times. As they'd rarely used the store phone, so I would miss the calls cause they would use their own cell phones(and not knowing everyone's cell #, I wouldn't pick up. Most especially as we are always getting a bunch of telemarketers calling us) to try and reach me instead of a number I finally got familiar with recognizing. And if they used their cell and I missed their call. Of course they would be all over me about it the next day, "I called you and you didn't call me back, blah, blah, blah". Even my DH was like that with me a few days ago to come in as one of the morning peeps would have been by herself. But, seriously I guess they expect you to be a major mind reader to know EVERYBODY's cell number when it comes up on your caller ID. Definitely not going to happen here.
Yesterday I got a text from another front-end employee asking me if I could cover for her at the last minute.
That employee mentioned that she was given my cell phone number.
Does your location do this?
I'm not sure about other departments in my store doing this. But all the time they would do this to me in bakery when I was part-time. As someone would call off and they would need me to cover.
But thing was, I don't know if it were leadership people or just nosy butt employees that would volunteer and be like "I'll call her. What's her number?" As I've had one of the "clique" peeps admit to me that they tried to look me up on Facebook and couldn't find me. And I'm happy about that, as I don't FB to begin with. And I don't need gossipy co-workers looking me up and judging me or my life stuff.
Not to mention, when they would call me in to cover, I'd get so many different people calling me at times. As they'd rarely used the store phone, so I would miss the calls cause they would use their own cell phones(and not knowing everyone's cell #, I wouldn't pick up. Most especially as we are always getting a bunch of telemarketers calling us) to try and reach me instead of a number I finally got familiar with recognizing. And if they used their cell and I missed their call. Of course they would be all over me about it the next day, "I called you and you didn't call me back, blah, blah, blah". Even my DH was like that with me a few days ago to come in as one of the morning peeps would have been by herself. But, seriously I guess they expect you to be a major mind reader to know EVERYBODY's cell number when it comes up on your caller ID. Definitely not going to happen here.
When they were calling you they didn't leave a voicemail? I know one time a department head in a totally different department than mine got my number from the store as nnd called me to gossip? Needless to o say I don't speak to her anymore.
Yesterday I got a text from another front-end employee asking me if I could cover for her at the last minute.
That employee mentioned that she was given my cell phone number.
Does your location do this?
No one except management and your department head should have your phone number. There are privacy laws that prohibit giving out an employee's personal contact information without their expressed permission. If people are giving out your phone number, they can be fired.
In my store every ones number that they post are by the phones in each department. But I only had store managers or department heads call me about work.
Yesterday I got a text from another front-end employee asking me if I could cover for her at the last minute.
That employee mentioned that she was given my cell phone number.
Does your location do this?
At our store a list of each person, who works in that departments, numbers are written down. This is just in case someone calls in and you need to call for someone else to cover or some one didn't show up when they should've we can contact them to make sure everything is okay. So if someone from another department wanted your phone number all they'd have to do is go to the department you work in and look at the list. That is wrong, but it is that easy. I would talk to management and see if they can inform others that it isn't right to obtain someones number with out their permission.
I quit a while back but come to visit this page to see how things are.
My store used to just tell us to go to the binder that had all the info and look up people to cover my shift. Granted, they trusted me to do things at that point that they didn't trust the college and high school students to do, but I always felt awkward about the situation.
Yesterday I got a text from another front-end employee asking me if I could cover for her at the last minute.
That employee mentioned that she was given my cell phone number.
Does your location do this?
I'm not sure about other departments in my store doing this. But all the time they would do this to me in bakery when I was part-time. As someone would call off and they would need me to cover.
But thing was, I don't know if it were leadership people or just nosy butt employees that would volunteer and be like "I'll call her. What's her number?" As I've had one of the "clique" peeps admit to me that they tried to look me up on Facebook and couldn't find me. And I'm happy about that, as I don't FB to begin with. And I don't need gossipy co-workers looking me up and judging me or my life stuff.
Not to mention, when they would call me in to cover, I'd get so many different people calling me at times. As they'd rarely used the store phone, so I would miss the calls cause they would use their own cell phones(and not knowing everyone's cell #, I wouldn't pick up. Most especially as we are always getting a bunch of telemarketers calling us) to try and reach me instead of a number I finally got familiar with recognizing. And if they used their cell and I missed their call. Of course they would be all over me about it the next day, "I called you and you didn't call me back, blah, blah, blah". Even my DH was like that with me a few days ago to come in as one of the morning peeps would have been by herself. But, seriously I guess they expect you to be a major mind reader to know EVERYBODY's cell number when it comes up on your caller ID. Definitely not going to happen here.
When they were calling you they didn't leave a voicemail? I know one time a department head in a totally different department than mine got my number from the store as nnd called me to gossip? Needless to o say I don't speak to her anymore.
Sorry for the late reply. Just now saw this thread again. And only the DH, back up managers(even the new one that I didn't quite know as well) and pastry chefs would leave messages. And one time the head baker. Beyond that nobody else would. So what I started doing if they called frequently enough using their own cell numbers. I would start collecting them and saving them in my phone.
But yea at my store, there is a mini rolodex box with peoples names and numbers on index cards in the office, where anybody really could open it up and look up your number if need be/if they really wanted to. Which I don't think is right really. But I guess they want it close at hand if they need someone to cover at a moment's notice.
But I do agree that only the DH and managers need to be doing the calling. I know they can get super busy at times. But you shouldn't be passing off that responsibility to just whomever in the department either.
