This is fucking stupid, but at my company we aren't allowed to have our cell phones on us; they must be looked in the staff room. I have had my phone on me for the past year, despite having signed a paper saying I would keep my phone in a locker. Now fast forward to last month, manager gets wind that one of the staff has had their phone on them (not me), and calls us into their office. When we walk in, there are 4 papers on the desk, and she looked at us and said "did you sign the paper?" we all said yes, and she said "that's all I needed to hear." and continued to write us up. I was the only one who spoke up and said something after that. I said "Sorry, I don't have a lock, so I won't be keeping my phone in the staff room". She replied with "the others have no problem with leaving their phones in there." to which I said, "Yes, that's fine, however a phone is a very personal item. It not only stores our contacts, photos, locations of the places we've been, our messages, call history, CREDIT CARDS for some." She said fine, just make sure you have a lock for tomorrow.

The next day I walk in and she greats me at the door of the staff room with her hand held out: "Do you have your phone on you?" "No, it's in my jacket pocket." "Good." she says. I leave the secured door, and come back because I forgot something. As I'm punching in my ID code I see through the tiny window she's feeling my jacket to see if my phone's in there. I walked up to her and asked her what she's doing, and she immediately flew off the handle and said I was accusing her of something (???) and storms off without answering my question.

The following day I walk into work with a 1500-word document on why smartphones are very personal items and why I think we should be allowed to keep them on us. She doesn't rewrite the policy, nor does she explicitly say "No" to my request.

Every day since I've kept my phone on me and she knows it. Feels good.