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Re:My life got quite a lot better when I went back to an old... by zthrowaway on Thursday September 08, 2022 @07:51AM (#32764213)
I would totally do this, but I have to have a smartphone for PagerDuty and Slack if I’m on-call. Which for me is basically 24/7 since I’m a SME in a few areas. I figure most of you are in a similar situation, I don’t see a way around that.
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Re:My life got quite a lot better when I went back to an old... by JohnFen on Thursday September 08, 2022 @09:50AM (#32765488)
If your employer requires the use of a smartphone, your employer should supply the smartphone. Or any other piece of equipment you need. You shouldn't use your own devices for work purposes.
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Re:My life got quite a lot better when I went back to an old... by _int3_ on Thursday September 08, 2022 @09:04AM (#32764899)
If you have to use smartphone for your work you have to. I don't use smartphone, if smartphone would be required for work , first they would have to get me smartphone, and buy me applications. And when I change job i just return it.
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Re:My life got quite a lot better when I went back to an old... by outime on Thursday September 08, 2022 @08:08AM (#32764343)
What about receiving an automated SMS or phone call when an incident is created? That's anyway how I usually do it even though I'm using a smartphone.
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Re:My life got quite a lot better when I went back to an old... by rtontic on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:14AM (#32765797)
See, that kind of situation has me thinking owning a work phone and a personal phone could be beneficial. Obviously, don't browse social media on your work phone and you should be fine.
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Re:My life got quite a lot better when I went back to an old... by tartoran on Thursday September 08, 2022 @08:25AM (#32764486)
How about receiving 2 dozen spam phone calls and spam text messages? IMO, because of this issue older (not smart) phones have become useless.
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