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Why did you have 3 cellphones for work? That seems excesive to me. I can understand 1 for work, one for personal - I had this situation for quite a while myself
by hermitdev 8y ago
Why did you have 3 cellphones for work? That seems excesive to me. I can understand 1 for work, one for personal - I had this situation for quite a while myself.
I'd prefer to only carry 1 phone, but I won't 'byod' to a company that reserves the right to remotely wipe my personal phone.
- elliekelly 8y agoIt absolutely was excessive. I had a US work phone and two international work phones because I dealt with foreign regulators who needed to be able to contact me at a "local" phone number. I'm not sure I ever managed to have all four charged at the same time. And I learned about BYOD the hard way. I do a bit of freelance legal journalism on the side and at one point I had a Reuters email address even though I wasn't an employee and I had it set up on my personal iPhone. One day I was getting off the subway and the entire phone went blank. A complete factory reset. Reuters had accidentally wiped the personal cellphones of everyone who had set up the company email on an iPhone. I remember one guy saying he lost the video of his daughter's first footsteps. This was before companies had controls around BYOD but I will certainly never allow a company to have any access to my device again.
- kerng 8y agoI do the same, I would never trust a company's IT department to have any access or administrative power over my personal phone - same goes for laptop.
- hermitdev 8y agoYeah, your example of someone losing their kid's first steps video is the sort of reason I keep my stuff separate. Either give me a phone, or dont expect an off hours response. If BYOD just meant they can remotely remove my Outlook account and any local cache, sure, I'd be fine with that. Wipe my entire phone? Go take a shit in the woods and wipe with a ponderosa pine cone.