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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Putting rules about phone use in the handbook ... checked
Reviewing the rules during training orientation in the first weeks ... checked
Telling her to not keep her phone on her or in her pocket and take it everywhere in the house ... checked
Telling her it is no okay to be using the phone for personal things ... checked
Telling her multiple times and refreshing her memory ... checked

but the AP still use the phone on the job.

The problem is not communicating to the AP by writing, verbally, or through the HF setting an example (like everyone put their phones away during meals), but the enforcement.  Unless you are a SAHM, how do you enforce it when you are not around to watch the AP?  The AP can lie and say all the right things that you want to hear but do not act on it.  Does a threat of rematch really work?  When someone is addicted, can they really control themselves to stop?

If someone was successfully in curbing an AP phone use, please share.  I can use the ideas.[/quote]

Ask verbal children what they did with AP during the day.  They’ll let you know quickly if she just sat and ignored them!

Nanny cams.[/quote]

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