ACTIVITY#3:

USING THE OFFICE PHONE

Suppose a Makati-area manager, Tommy Laoac, learns that his assistant, Mis Lynn
Cyac, is using the office phone at least once a week to talk to her sister in Cebu for an
hour or so. The manager confronts her with the discovery by asking Lynn, if, in fact,
she is asking these long-distance personal telephone calls.

Lynn answer, yes why? Have I done anything wrong? What is so terrible about my
using the phone anyway? The company is big enough to afford it; what is one phone
call or two to Cebu? Feeling expansive, she adds, I phoned my mother a couple of
times last week because I wanted to find out about her trip to HongKong. What is the
problem?

Question:

1. How do you think her manager should respond?

a. Ignore the situation altogether.
b. Excuse her.
c. Tell her that she can use the phone only in an emergency.
d. Tell her that what she is doing is theft.
e. Do something else,
Explain your answer….

2. What are your views on using the company phone to make personal calls?
Explain your answer.