Work phone as a personal phone

McCracken said:
i just hope you're feeling good enough to sneak your balls back from her purse. We ate chili last night :flipoff2:
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nah. she's prob already served em up on a platter to him in some 'special surprise' dinner. only the psycho's hold on to them like a charm
 
Ron said:
I dont understand the popular notion in this thread about not checking work emails after hours. Hell I want to know what I am walking into in the morning. Plus it is a very Prussian concept. That of work time and off time. If I want to take off in the middle of a day and go fishing or do something with my kids I do it. I dont tell anyone, I dont ask anyone. I do it. Likewise if work "needs" me at 9:30 pm I am available. I dont work and live. Work is just a part of my life and it fits where it falls.
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X2. I guess it depends on your company but as long as i get my job done, no-one cares. Plus Im salaried, so it doesn't really matter.

I use my company phone as my personal. I used personal for work and was reimbursed for a long time and it was great. They cut that out, (even though it was saving them money) and i carried 2 phones for a while. I hated having 2 phones and paying a bunch every month for a personal, that i started using less and less. I eventually went to a cheap no data phone on my wife's plan and forward it to my work. Most everyone knows my number now, but the old still works if they don't.

Figure that one day ill leave or something, but its worth the $$ every month to use their phone. I don't get to upgrade as often as i used to but nothing has come out that i want and they will replace the phone if it shits the bed.
 
DSM Turbos said:
My job pays up to 100 a month for my phone. I would much rather have it that way. Most tech companies and others have moved to BYOD (bring your own device) so they don't have to manage it.
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My company won't for IP concerns. While it is more security theatre imo, they want to be able to vet devices and security controls before letting you install company email and such on it. Cant get it on your personal if u wanted, no matter if its reimbursed or not.

I sure wish they did though.
 
Ive had the same number for 10+ years via a work/personal phone. I own the phone, the company pays the data and neither of us ever miss a beat. Until the day a dickhead employer deactivates your work phone forcing you to get a new number. :mad:
I only have one phone and a shit ton of contacts over the last ten years. Switching over sucks.
And then there's the issue of "account manager" not being you... Blah blah blah. Could the boss spy on you through your phone? Yes. I've proven it.
Now I have my own phone, plan, fawk it. Most decent employers will throw you $20+ a month for you to use it for work related things.
 
I kept both and used google phone for my personal number. Now both numbers go to my work phone. But only the work number calls out. Best way to get by with both.

Plus no more phone bill!
 
I give people a internet number that forwards to my phone and call most people private. Back when I was more anal about it I used a annual paid service to be able to text from that internet number through an app. And I would change my hard number every year and change phones every two. And Barney fife or Jack Jons or Sally Sue was always the owner of the phone plan
 
paradisePWoffrd said:
My company won't for IP concerns. While it is more security theatre imo, they want to be able to vet devices and security controls before letting you install company email and such on it. Cant get it on your personal if u wanted, no matter if its reimbursed or not.

I sure wish they did though.
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You can still push policies that limit certain stuff if they want to. But then do you want them locking down your own device. Mine only requires a password on the policy they push.
 
DSM Turbos said:
You can still push policies that limit certain stuff if they want to. But then do you want them locking down your own device. Mine only requires a password on the policy they push.
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Yeah i know. Thats why i said Security Theatre. They make it out like its more secure and what not. I hated carrying 2 phones. Now I use the one they give me, and keep everything personal backed up to a "cloud". If I need to get a personal phone in the future, the number will be the only real change.
 
Fifteen years and I still have two phones. I like it this way; and since work only lets us have iPhones now I am even more happy that I kept my personal phone (Samsung) because iPhones suck and still suck. Years ago we had Blackberries and they worked pretty well...
 
I broke a few company phones unintentionally, they offered $75 a month for me to use my personal phone for work as well.

Ask if they will do that for you.

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