Company Cell Phone or Personal Cell Phone?

[Anonymous]

My region will no longer allow us to expense anything for personal cell phones. Isthis the same for all regions or is my RBD being a pain in the ass?

At one time, we could expense up to $150 telecom (Cell + high speed internet etc)

Then it was $25 for personal cell phone or we can order a company phone.

Now, we cannot expense anything for personal cell phones, and my boss wants me to get a company phone, which would be direct billed to BMS I think.

What should I do? I don't WANT an 2nd phone, I will never give up my own personal phone as I've had the phone number for 6 or 7 years when I moved to this city and I don't want to deal with changing phone numbers.

I like the idea of getting work emails on my phone, which I think I can do on my personal phone if I sign up but I haven’t done that and now I don’t' think I should if I'm not getting $ back for it anymore.


What should I do? I suppose if I got a company cell phone managers could look at who I talk to, how long, and where the calls are made from/to. This isn't a big deal for me, as I do work every day, but some days I don't have time to see my first doc until I get the kids to school and drive to a clinic that has a doctor actually in. This might not be till 9 or 10am.

Can someone answer the queation as to whether , if you do NOT have a company phone number, can you STILL charge up to 150.00 per month for communication

 

[Anonymous]

Can someone answer the queation as to whether , if you do NOT have a company phone number, can you STILL charge up to 150.00 per month for communication

Up to the individual manager