Company before my last provided phones as they were super paranoid about 3rd part software. Righty so as its a huge telecom company. Wasn’t a great phone, it pissed me off more that I had to carry 2 phones when on call/at work.

Next company is 2x times bigger and known to the worst in my field. I needed a quick job and the shit started from day 1. I didn’t last 6 months. But I did keep them off my phone, even thought it was tech obsolescence that kept them off :)

And the killer bit was the company owns a cellphone company! No freebee’s in fact the 1st couple of months there my boss or higher up bosses would send me emails to switch over to them. Dickhead that owns the company wanted 100% of the employees to be subscribers.

Fuck that lol

My old job tried this w/ my personal cell phone (for logging in). I told them where to go with that. Then they threatened a layoff, so I had to relent while I looked for another job. Turns out my phone was too old to support the software.

They can’t force me to upgrade and they were too cheap to buy me a new phone. They found a work around real quick as I couldn’t do my job and they had to double me up w/ a coworker (OT). less then 24hrs later I was back on the network. And quit a few months later.

IT people were beside themselves, they were “you don’t upgrade your phone ever new release” I was like F that noise I climb antenna’s for a living, at no point to I need the latest and greatest to be an antenna monkey.