Open minded as... me!

As a very successful housewife, I have subscribed to all kind of job site's newsletters hoping that at some point I'll stop being so successful as a housewife but a little less successful as an employee.
One reason (a very insignificant one) for which now I spend almost my entire day looking for a damn job is that I cursed so much the previous one that my wish granted at some point and very soon after getting in I finally got out. Why did I hate it so much? Because of the "jail rules" I considered absurd and extremely unusual for such an open minded people.

To be more concrete, not being able to answer the personal phone during working hours, not even being allowed to keep it on your desk, no personal email access, asking permission to go to lunch, not even talking with the colleagues if the subject is not job related and other similar stuff... all this was way too different with the working environment I was used to and not because I was spending my entire day on the Messenger, but because I was considered reliable enough to not being mentioned this every day for the first week.

Anyway, after trying really hard to convince myself that this was just bad luck, I read today on this newsletter that if you "have emailed your friends or made a doctor’s appointment while at work" it means that you're not "as innocent as you think."
And they're not kidding!
If you have any doubts about it, please read further: "However, if you wish to make a doctor’s appointment why not ask if you can use the phone? An employer will rarely refuse such a request". And it's not about using the phone from your desk, it's about "no mobile phones" and nothing else so "personal" at work.

I really don't think that my male manager has to know when I need an appointment to the gynecologist or that I should wait for him (or her) to step out of a meeting for asking her such a thing. I really think that I should be entitled to use my personal phone when an emergency or when I need an appointment to the doctor without asking any permission. I wonder what monstrous disappointment from an employee made them create such rules...
So start appreciating more your employer and your office politics because worse is always possible.
Enjoy your work!