Sure. My point was more "how would you know the experience would have been smooth" before you worked there for a while?

edit: sure, her description of the hurdles etc might not be representative of things at that specific company, to be clear.

Just saying that it's a risk to connect your personal stuff to any company.

This one aspect aside (porting out barriers/risks/complexities) do you disagree with the advice to separate personal and work accounts and devices? I don't. I've disburdened my personal apple ID and made a work one about 3 years ago, and separated my Google identity precisely so that I don't face these risks. (Google can be ferocious about closing off access to your life, if they deem e.g. you abused advertising norms and t&c, and my company had some risk of this)

BTW you replied in about 5 places to re state your experience of this porting thing. That read as slightly obsessively detailed and specific hence my question because not once have you stated a view about the rest of her piece, except mildly disparagingly.

Yes I actually disagree with the advice. This might seem crazy, but maybe I’ll just prefer to work for people who aren’t complete psychopaths. Like the company that apparently assigned all IP till the day the employee died.

It’s a point of view. Certainly there are people who feel that every interaction with their employer needs to be contentious. I prefer to trust and assume good intent. Will I be disappointed on occasion? Definitely. I’m ok with that.

I didn’t reply in 5 places. I replied once and then sent a similar response to 3 people who said pretty much the same thing. I can’t help it if they don’t read the other responses and rush to comment identical things.

> * I replied once and then sent a similar response to 3 people*

So.. you rebutted the same point 4 times, which is about 5...

I responded to your comment in good faith, giving you a different perspective from the dominant one here.

Instead of responding to that you’re going “haha I was right!!!”

Good for you I guess?

No, bad for me. You added one point, four times, your one point has substance: you actually worked for the same company, and did do the phone transfer, and it was hassle free. And, you answered my direct question we just disagree about the substantive motivations to separate work and personal devices. I agree with the original poster, it's too much liability and personally invasive.