Silent tech war with employer

Company gives out phones to operations staff but only iPhones.

Company refuses to support staff apps for internal use on Android OS as well as iOS and only supports iOS (apple).

I hate iPhone's and refuse to have a company phone when there is no support of both major mobile device ecosystems. I've always been a Linux aka Android guy. I also refuse to access company emails etc on my own time.

Company tried to offer me an iPhone and I declined. I expected backlash but there wasn't any at the time. However the IT people did change my phone contact in the staff database without my permission away from my existing personal phone to an unknown to me number for a sim in the phone I declined.

It was very funny having staff planning people (roster clerks) unable to contact me for a couple of weeks through no fault of my own .

My silent tech war against my employer continues.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

Good for you!

The change of number may have been a case of the left hand not knowing what the right is doing: no-one telling the IT people you had not changed your telephone to the one they thought you now have.

Except in certain professions where particular staff may have to be on call, there is no reason for a company to contact employees outside of work except in genuine emergency. However suposedly important the massage - and there are big differences between "important", "urgent" and "emergency".

Nor for employees to even read / listen to messages until back at work; certainly not to respond.

(The exceptions are of course, mainly medical and the emergency-services staff on call, but they often have special communications means anyway.)

zonavar68 · 56-60, M

@ArishMell My personal number has always been my work contact until the attempt to co-erce me to accept a 'doctored' iphone (locked with a work installed management profile) that I didn't want.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@zonavar68 My employer would have had our private numbers but I never heard of anyone ever being contacted outside of work unless working at home - their may have been isolated instances otherwise but only if really important.

"... at home...".

We had an important distinction between working at home and from home. I do not know of any working from home but some, of higher grade than me, occasionally worked at home if they had to juggle completing something like a high-level report with family needs. It was rare though.

My work was such that neither option would have been possible for me; and that was so for many of us, if not most.

MarineBob · 56-60, M

Customers furnished me with 2 ipads Secretary has one and step daughter the other

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