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Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

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Re: Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

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Post by fuzz4lyfe »

bradknowles wrote: post #251
ben7799 wrote: post #227

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We use Okta where I work but we are allowed to install Okta Verify without installing the MDM profile. If we want to do work email on our phone, we do have to submit to MDM. 99% of the employees I know refused to allow MDM on their personal phone, and the company was OK with that. They made a few managers carry work issued 2nd phones. We also use Slack and are allowed to use that without MDM so that works for a lot o…

Any company that wants to put an MDM on my phone, will have to buy me a second phone. See, I'm the computer geek in the family, and that means that I'm the family MDM manager. Which means I already have an MDM on my phone, and since you can only ever have one MDM on a mobile device like that, well the conclusion is inevitable. If they don't want to buy me a second phone, then they're going to have to decide which of…

I worked for a company that was forcing a MDM on employees a few years back. I went ahead and wiped it and installed Cyanogenmod instead of the stock android rom. My phone was then incompatible with the MDM so I was no longer required to install it. I don't think it would of been able to do all that much even if it managed to install.

Re: Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

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Post by lugg »

dhruvmittal wrote: post #182
zippergz wrote: post #164

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Are you, with a straight face, saying that you'd rather receive a PHONE CALL than a notification from an app that you can set time-sensitive notification methods for (i.e. DND overnight, etc.)? I'm not fan of getting any kind of work message outside of working hours, but I'd FAR rather let my co-workers send me a slack message that I can ignore and/or deal with when I feel like it than call me on the phone. No one at…

You're not wrong, but there's also the filter of "is this a real emergency or could this be an email he'll see tomorrow morning?" that goes through the coworker's head when his options are call vs. email. And, at least in my position, if it is a real emergency I'd like to know. That said, other than a handful of coworkers who I'm friends with outside of work, only my manager & HR have my personal number. This adds an…

Pretty much this, it's an instant bullshit filter.

If I were to ever receive so many phone calls it becomes a problem I'll solve that problem. Right now I've had all of zero calls this year so I think I'll be right for the moment.

Re: Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

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Post by pwthornton »

vecplane wrote: post #128
pwthornton wrote: post #126

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My company pays for my service but not my phone, so I'm in a gray area here.

Heads up, if your company is paying for your service, they can see who you're calling and texting. I'm not saying that's unreasonable, but I've heard of employees getting caught leaking by communicating through cell plans paid for by the employer.

All they do is hand me a certain amount of money every month. The plan is my own, and they didn't install any software on my phone. All I do is run Gmail through the built-in mail and calendar apps on my iPhone. I also have Slack on my iPhone.

Re: Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

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Post by oarsinsync »

gumby wrote: post #181
ghostbrainalpha wrote: post #174

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That's a good question. But as long as you don't save any files on your personal computer, it is just a transport device like a car that gets you to work. I'm guessing the law isn't that forward thinking though. Maybe I should keep a <$200 mini-PC, just to RDP into work so I have no problem giving up that machine.

Clever. A modern day "dumb terminal"

If you think that's clever, you'll be blown away when you see actual thin client and zero client hardware. PCoIP zero client tech is pretty seamless with the right backend & network configuration.

Re: Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

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Post by Railsify »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #212
Railsify wrote: post #170

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"...don't know who you are really working with..." this resonates with me, I recently left a company of finding out that the recently hired VP was the Presidents favorite bar tender, he was also trying to coax her into a relationship. The VP had also backdated her resume and was claiming to have been at the company about 4 years prior to her actual arrival.

The back dating no doubt matched a back dated stock option grant that would allow her to claim that she was fully vested. That is just fraud and the board of directors should be all over it (they would have visibility into the hiring of executive staff). Now if the company has no board, or the board is composed entirely of founders, this sort of stuff slides by. Best to avoid working in the future with anyone associa…

The company was owned by a single founder, the board was an advisory board with no real teeth, advisory board made up of good ole boys. The company folded early last year due directly to her management decisions, preceded by 3 other execs leaving, they all cited her decisions in their resignations. Sad because the product was coming along nicely, product market fit, positive feedback from customers, etc. I think the owner was just old and burnt out combined with a bit of "control all of a little rather than a little of a lot" syndrome.

Re: Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

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Post by ChuckMcM »

Railsify wrote: post #277
ChuckMcM wrote: post #212

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The back dating no doubt matched a back dated stock option grant that would allow her to claim that she was fully vested. That is just fraud and the board of directors should be all over it (they would have visibility into the hiring of executive staff). Now if the company has no board, or the board is composed entirely of founders, this sort of stuff slides by. Best to avoid working in the future with anyone associa…

The company was owned by a single founder, the board was an advisory board with no real teeth, advisory board made up of good ole boys. The company folded early last year due directly to her management decisions, preceded by 3 other execs leaving, they all cited her decisions in their resignations. Sad because the product was coming along nicely, product market fit, positive feedback from customers, etc. I think the…

Such a sad story. Not unique but sad none the less.
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