“This Is Crazy, Right?” — Boss Demands Employees’ Personal Phone Numbers Instead Of Using Company Email To Contact Them
Nothing says “healthy workplace boundaries” quite like a boss trying to skip the company email system entirely in favor of your actual personal cell phone number. One remote employee just hit exactly that wall after their company got sold to new owners who apparently treat professional norms as more of a rough guideline.
Between 6:30 AM Teams calls and a request to bypass every official channel they were hired with, this person took to r/work to ask a simple question: Is this crazy, or is this just how the new bosses operate now? Here’s the full story.
1. “My ‘boss’ is trying to make me give her my personal phone number and email address so she can contact me….”
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3. Naturally, r/work had strong opinions on a boss who thinks personal cell numbers are a reasonable substitute for company channels. Here’s how people reacted.
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