Side note, I'm not a big fan of giving vendors and such my personal cell phone number.... you know that you can forward a cisco phone to an external line? I have a phone in my SFT cage that no one else uses.... ever. So I just set it to CForwAll to 9+(insert phone # w/ area code here) and it will ring to my phone when a store call gets forwarded or calls 3219. (Don't tell anyone, but I'll answer when I'm off, so I have better control of my vendors when my evening and weekend LOD's didn't read my friday recap to know what was going on and sends the vendor away...)
Thanks, this is an excellent idea!! I haven't moved into the role just yet (I interview this week) but I expect to get the job. I'm almost positive that our SFT office doesn't have a phone, though. The old office was next to the backroom fire tunnel and the phone extension was 219, but with our remodel the office got moved to the bulk steel area near the receiving desk. We got the Cisco phones with our remodel but I don't remember our low voltage electrician running any new phone lines to that area. We always call our SFT on the walkie (he keeps his own walkie in his office).
I'll definitely have to look into this, because I'm not a big fan of handing out my cell phone # either. Worse case scenario I can give out a Google Voice # and forward that to my cell, then just dump that number if I ever leave Target or the SFT role. I like the Cisco idea better, because it would be really nice to have calls forwarded to my cell that came through the store operator so I spend less time playing phone tag with vendors when I am working on projects.