Work issued cell phone AND personal cell phone?

My employer (government) issues cell phones to department heads only. They all use their work issued cell phone for work only and have their personal cell phones as well. It's for several different reasons, one being that use of government property for personal use is such a huge issue here that no one uses it for personal use. I am not high enough on the food chain to get a work issued phone so I have email on my personal cell phone. Frankly, I don't think it's as secure as it was when I was with a private firm that reimbursed me for my cell phone bill. They required an app on the phone where they could wipe it if you were terminated. When I left voluntarily, I was lucky that they were OK with IT just deleting work email and docs from my phone rather than wiping it.

I have had a company cell phone for a little over 2 years, and I kept my own personal cell phone when I got it. I was told I could use it as my personal phone if I wanted to. However, I like being able to separate business and personal calls (which I don't get a lot of either, but we're about to start transferring the main business number to my phone and it will ring a lot more). Plus DH and I have had our cell numbers for forever (at least 10 years), and I didn't want to give it up. I use my personal phone more than I use my work phone.

I have 2. Based on past experience, I prefer to keep my work separate from my personal life. Although, my boss texted me on my personal phone at 830 this morning on my day off to ask me something about work!!!

I was elected to public office in November - school board. We, too, have the BYOD option. I kept my iphone because I'm not a Blackberry fan, and I know myself well enough to know that I'd be forgetting one phone or the other all the time. Also, I'm on a contract with my iphone, which I only got March 2014, so I didn't want to be paying for a phone I'd no longer be using. 

I can access everything I need on my phone. I didn't realize it but they are paying me a $40/month internet allowance - I need to talk to them about that, as it's an unnecessary expense for them. I don't need the money. I'd be paying the bill regardless; it's not gone up since I started using it as a trustee. And even if it did go up a bit, the reality is it's an honor and privilege to be allowed to serve in this way, and I believe a cell phone bill is a small price to pay for that honor. 

At the last place I worked only the top people had company phones. (Fine with me!). The boss wanted my personal phone number "for emergencies" which apparently meant "whenever I want you to be at my beck and call. ".

She handed that number out freely and on Yom Kippur called, texted, or had my coworkers call me 24 times. Twenty four times in less than 8 hours.

She would also reprimand people if she saw them using their personal phone at work, but would call your personal phone and complain if you didn't answer if you were not at your desk when she bellowed for you. She was a piece of work.

So yeah, keep the personal stuff personal and the work stuff at work..,

My DH had two, but his personal phone broke, so he just uses his work cell now. They don't mind, and he doesn't do anything on it that he wouldn't want anyone to see. My work used to issue cell phones, but an audit or something said they handed out too many? Anyway, I get a monthly stipend now to use toward a cell phone.

Sorry to mislead. It isn't a pile of phones but we stack our own. So I have an iPhone and a Blackberry on top. All my coworkers personal phones are bigger too so it is little stacks of big phone on bottom, blackberry on top. Imagine legos... LOL! 

So is no one here salaried? DH and I both are, which does indeed mean that either of our companies can call us at any time and expect an answer. It doesn't happen so much with my job, but it happens to DH all the time. He does have specific weeks where he is on call and can't go farther than an hour away from home, but he pretty much needs to be available 24-7. There was a time when we got early morning calls about three times a night (he works at a chemical plant and is in management). It's a pain sometimes, but he is paid well and they give him other compensation in addition.

And in the days before cell phones, when we had a landline, I worked for a newspaper, and I better answer that call if at all possible. When the space shuttle crashed in 2001, it crashed in a small town near where I live -- my newspaper served that area. I was six hours away, at my SIL's wedding. When I got home, I had 15 phone messages from my EIC, wanting me to come in. I had asked off for those specific days, but he didn't know I was going out of town. I explained to him when I got back to work the next day, and he was cool about it. (I'd much rather had been in the middle of news than at a wedding, TBH.)