Colleague reported me for phone usage - awkward!!

On a side note, when am upstairs in my house and my neighbours ring doorbell goes when a delivery is being attempted. I can hear her loud and clear!! It is quite annoying and loud to be honest

It’s pathetic, your boss knows it’s pathetic. Those calls are very short. No big deal.

What you boss IS telling you … watch your back … You have a rat in the office and your boss wants you to know the rat is watching you. And you boss doesn’t want rat-face in their office … ratting on you.

Yes this would do my nut in

Did they say they don’t have an issue with you taking ring calls at your desk or with your phone usage as a whole?

I don’t care about normal phone usage if the work gets done but I would have to raise answering ring calls at a desk because they play out loud and disrupt everyone else.

I did wonder this too, what would you do if you didn't have a ring door bell?

This! I had a manger tell me someone else had “commented on my nose piercing and said it made me look unprofessional” turns out it was her that thought that. Weird because some of the older women in the office had nose rings and it wasn’t an issue but me being 21 at the time she seemed to have an issue with me

If someone felt the need to report you, you must be quite annoying so maybe be more aware of what you're doing going forward. I agree with PP that your manager if giving you a subtle heads up

My old manager used to do this all the bloody time!

Most offices are not like this.

This. I notice if my colleagues are on the phone, but I don't care. Why would I?

Mute your phone, all the alerts are so annoying.

I thought the same. The manager DOES have an issue but she's trying to blame it on your coworker.

My god it sounds like you are at school! No phones in the office - not allowed to take calls ! Blimey - glad I don’t work in your office

Either it's a problem and violated the rules or it didn't. I don't see why the manager mentioned it.
If anything they could've said to the team as a whole 'just a reminder to keep personal calls to a minimum when not on break'.

I think the fact the manager essentially grassed the complainant up to you makes the atmosphere awkward. But yeah, that person is clearly a cock who dislikes you.

Surely you can just write a delivery note when you order things online?
It seems bizarre to feel the need to answer your ring doorbell, and I definitely think you should be courteous and move to a corridor before doing so.
I wouldn't report you but I would think you were a bit of a nob for not putting a delivery note on your orders

I have colleagues who speak to delivery drivers, etc, on their Ring doorbell. It's really loud and distracting because they are shouting directions and having an awkward conversation with someone who isn't familiar with their house, who often doesn't have English as their first language and is shouting back as they are in a hurry. We can hear the driver too as the are using the loudspeaker - not sure if that's the way they use the app or if you are using the app differently. Normal conversations on their phones to partners/kids schools etc are quieter and significantly more discreet.

It sounds like it's more the loudspeaker that's the problem, rather than the personal calls.

I think it’s a passive aggressive move by your manager as they want to mention this but don’t have the guts to say it directly. I once worked with a manager like this - it felt underhand. I heard her do it to others too - to someone sorting a funeral for a family member and mgr said someone had complained they’d had a longer lunch hour (they were stuck in the bank arranging payment of the funeral).

It’s bad management on the mgrs part. I have a team of people and personal calls are fine within reason. Everyone in my team works their rocks off so it’s give and take - when it’s mega busy everyone is working over and above their hours. When there’s a lull, who cares if the team have longer lunches or take personal calls…. Your manager should have just had the guts to say she didn’t like you taking personal calls.

I agree. If one of my team said that I would just say ‘I’m not concerned about that so you don’t need to be either’ and shut it down.

Unfortunately, not all snitches are powerless. I think some people are far too naive on this point.

If this OPs issue was taken to HR, would it just be swept under the carpet?

My doorbell app plays on loudspeaker… does yours? Because I wouldn’t mind my colleague taking a call but I’d find it quite disrupting if you were effective communicating via loudspeaker while at your desk.

As the manager you say to the snitch OK, thanks for letting me know. Then either ignore it, or tune in to see if it’s genuinely a problem.

I have people that bloody love to snitch “so and so was sick, but I saw them in Tesco!!!’”, “so and so was booking a holiday this morning at 11:47!!!!”.

I prefer to wait in the tall grass until the Snitch does the thing they snitch on, and point out that real life has a way of diverting everyone’s attention from time to time.

Your manager has a problem with it - colleague or not - your manager has a problem

Desist

Why would you sow discord among your team like that? If it's not a concern for you and doesn't require any action, what would you be expecting the person to do with the information?

Poor management here.

If what you are doing is actually an issue, your manager should raise it with you and ask you to stop doing it.

If it's not an issue, your manager should tell the tattle-tale to wind their neck in and not bother you about it.

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