I have a cell phone. I even use it once in a while.

I have a cell phone, too! The phone was free, and I pay my mother $12 a month to be an extra line on her Family plan. (Yes, I am 38 years old and married.) The phone even has texts and voice mail!

My company has terrible benefits but one thing I am super thankful for is having my iPhone account paid for by them. I don't see a bill.

(And I use it internationally sometimes on vacation and I never see that bill, either. Though I *did* hear about it when I racked up a $1,700 bill when I visited Argentina and Chile. I had just gotten an iPhone and it was on the default set up that IT set up for me. Which, was to check work email approximately 1300 times a day. Yikes! The fact that I wasn't asked to pony up for it at all is part of the reason that I don't complain much when work takes over my every waking hour occasionally.)

When people talk about cell phone stuff, I feel like the dog in The Far Side who hears "blah blah blah."

Me too!

Hoping these storms move through faster.

Yeah, the HR guy asked if I wanted my cell phone on my business cards and my reply was basically "Not if they aren't paying for it" (although I think if I do use it for work they kick in for part of the bill, which is why I may just go all fancy and get the new Torch after all).

I live on my cellphone, but a little less so now that I have Google Voice, since it eliminates long distance charges. But it's doing data transmission all the time--though I have no international service, which is good.

My company has terrible benefits but one thing I am super thankful for is having my iPhone account paid for by them. I don't see a bill.

(although I think if I do use it for work they kick in for part of the bill, which is why I may just go all fancy and get the new Torch after all).

Do it! That's the reason I got a smartphone. They paid for a lot of the phone and are paying almost my entire monthly bill. It's awesome.

Though I *did* hear about it when I racked up a $1,700 bill when I visited Argentina and Chile. I had just gotten an iPhone and it was on the default set up that IT set up for me. Which, was to check work email approximately 1300 times a day. Yikes!

Oh deeeeear. Definitely a good thing they ate that.

Do it! That's the reason I got a smartphone. They paid for a lot of the phone and are paying almost my entire monthly bill. It's awesome.

But that would mean I'm working when not in the office, which I try to avoid. Of course, I probably won't be able to avoid it for long when I have my own projects.

megan, it will mos def (your favorite!) come into play when you start traveling to meet clients.

Yeah, the HR guy asked if I wanted my cell phone on my business cards and my reply was basically "Not if they aren't paying for it"

Yeah, our new travel policy explicitly states we are not getting our cellphones reimbursed. Which we all went "Bzuh?" at, since currently we get up to $75 a month (just have to remember to send in the bill every month). We all kinda thought "Well, given how we travel, if you don't pay for it, I"m not using it for work. Which is going to make it hella hard to get a hold of me..." (ETA: Bosses have currently said that does not apply, and I haven't been testing the new $120/day meal policy either (currently $70))