Comment Re:Not Hard Enough (Score 1) 220
I promise I meant to put them in.
Annnnnd this is why we have software testers.
I promise I meant to put them in.
Annnnnd this is why we have software testers.
Don't piss off the people you are firing
What about this article, where the guy quit of his own volition?
if your dog is really going to town on his balls
Annnnd here's my favorite out of context
Why would a company require me to bring a smart device to use as just a phone?
I don't know, and the 'requirement' is the biggest issue I have with this article. In my experience, this is really about *allowing* employees to bring in their own devices.
Most people want the ability to bring in their own devices like tablets, Macbook Air, etc... The use of the device as a phone is such a small niche it's not worthy of much debate.
In my experience, I disagree with this, since many (most?) people don't like carrying around two phones, while I very much enjoy having a work PC that I don't have to support directly myself.
If they fired me just because I didn't provide my own phone it would be wrongful dismissal.
Unfortunately a good chunk of the tech industry is at-will employment, where you can get fired for any (or far more likely, *no*) reason.
Out of curiousity, if you change those basic management settings, does your email still work?
It appears to be built into the Android email client that supports Exchange, so it's not a setting that can be manually toggled. When I first add the account on my phone and punch in my connection settings, that security dialog pops up, and if I don't "agree", I'm just not able to pull email down.
If I understand you correctly, your company is installing software on employee's phones that can monitor and access their communications. That would seem to violate a number of federal laws.
While I certainly think this is BAD, it's probably not illegal, because permission is technically being given by the employee.
Ultimately I don't think Gartner is correct in saying companies will *require* employees to BYOD, it's far more likely that they'll *allow* employees to use their own devices, as long as they agree to/install this type of software, which is what is currently being done.
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.