part of my 'new employee' schtick is "your email account does not belong to you. we let you use it on our behalf. make no mistake,it belongs to the company an will be analyzed as such.'
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I feel the same way about company phones. I know a lot of people who cancelled their personal phone when the company issued them one. I resigned myself to carrying two phones. And it's not like a have some sort of clandestine life, I just want my personal life separate from my company life.
Also, after hours/on vacation the work phone just sits on my desk accumulating missed messages, which is harder to do if it’s your only phone.
Yes! I always took my work phone with me on vacation, but I left it in the hotel and would just check it in the evenings. That was a big driver - I want my family to be able to reach me any time, but not everyone at work. My admin and my boss had my personal number, but they only used it in emergencies.
Better to setup a softphone and have the company pay x% of the users bill.
If the user cannot afford a phone or their phone dies, then issue one.
The only person who loses with two phones is the poor person carrying/charging/using 2 phones
Probably, but not something my work would do,
Been there, I feel for ya.
Not enough people understand this. Ive seen people sign up for Facebook accounts with their Corp address. Idiots.
People seriously need to learn this lesson.
When I started at my job the previous guy left so much personal info behind I could probably get a loan on his name 🤦♂️
I barely use my work email for WORK much less anything else!
I feel like I should show up to more meetings with a t-shirt saying "I read your emails". Granted, this type of thing isn't at the top of the list of things we're looking for; but, if we run across it, it's gonna get reported. Too many people don't seem to understand that their work computer is not a personal computer.
At one point the IT department where I work were asking questions about why I tether my phone to my work laptop when I'm out of the office (working from home). I told them very specifically that I would not connect any device I didn't have administrator control over to my home network. They didn't ask anymore questions after that. I have a work phone and work laptop for work things. I use both only for work things. I have two personal computers, and two personal phones (one for messing with roms). I don't need their hardware for anything in my personal life. Nope. Not even a Google search.
They also asked me if I wanted my personal phone logged into the wifi and I gave them serious side eye before saying no thanks.
I seriously can't believe people even still bother doing this ~~shit ~~ at work but I just had to go through and review access logs and I was stunned at the carp people look at—at work. At work! I always thought I had too much drive but these people take the cake. Ridiculous.
Look. Sometimes you get distracted and need to find out what a mongoose actually is right now.
Remember to periodically ask your CISO, with specific porn web page examples, if you can use your work email to create an about there. (They love any engagement anyways.)