new job does not allow camera phones - Page 2

Negrito · #11 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 07:38 AM

Seriously i would have them get you the "zack morris" (you know the big gray brick w/an antenna) or some other dumb*** cheap phone then leave your mogul in the car/house whatever...

Shawng2020 · #12 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Negrito

Seriously i would have them get you the "zack morris" (you know the big gray brick w/an antenna) or some other dumbass cheap phone then leave your mogul in the car/house whatever...

arparent · #13 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 10:32 AM

If having a cell phone at work is an essential function of your job, then they have to provide you with one. If they don't want to do that, then just stop carrying one... they'll figure it out the first time they can't get ahold of you.

#14 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 10:39 AM

i would quit...... LOL JK

but seriouslly, its unfair for a job to make you get rid of your PPC, the least they can do is to provide a work phone, or a model that you can use so you san keep the Mogul

sprintrjm · #15 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 12:51 PM

I guess i could just keep the phone, and have them buy me a regular ol tele.

Thanks

miketab · #16 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 01:14 PM

just get the backberry 8830< it is no mogul but at least you will a have decent phone without a camera

holo · #17 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 04:48 PM

heh... at&t has always had cameraless versions of all their pdas for this very reason... I believe they have a cameraless tilt out there somewhere....

bkhoste · #18 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 05:06 PM

Is the policy strictly enforced? My wifes last job said that they could not have a camera phone, but no one ever did anything about it. I think the worst they could do I make her put it in her car, I highly doubt they can take it away forever.

elmerfudpucker · #19 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 05:39 PM

Leave it in the car, look at it this way, someone steals the car you can track it.

jye75 · #20 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 05:49 PM

After serving 14 years in the secure communications environment of the Air Force, and dealing with this daily, I'm sure the job is not saying the OP cannot have a camera phone, just that they are not allowed on the premises/in the building. IF the OP is required to have a mobile phone while at work, then any company requiring it SHOULD provide it or subsidize the cost of a personal one. Not that they will see it that way necessarily. (Beware the thought of thinking the company is lax in enforcing their security policy though, if you do carry it and they have documentation stating that it can be confiscated, then you're SOL if you get caught, and if your job is anything like working in a SCIF in the DoD world, you won't get it back unless you're buddies with someone.)