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?

Who was terminated?

if your dog is really going to town on his balls

Annnnd here's my favorite out of context /. quote of the week (year?).

Haha, yup. Where I'm at ($largeMetroArea), I only see them in the big groups of Segway tours of the city, which are fairly comical to watch. Some of our downtown cops actually had them for awhile, but they complained about their mobility/practicality, and they went back to bicycles and ATVs.

Ugh yeah, I wish people would stop using Segway as an example of useful innovation. The technology behind them is interesting, but as a whole they failed to actually improve transportation in any fashion.

Per some Googling:
82 - 94, process engineer
94 - 96, manufacturing manager
96 - 97, plant manager
97 - 01, plant manager of another location
01 - 03, "responsible for implementation of 0.13-micron logic process technology"
03 - 10, "responsible for Assembly Test" (some sort of VP, not 100% on times)
10 - 12, senior VP of Manufacturing and Supply Chain
12 - now, COO

Heh, and honestly you could almost say they've only had 2, given Nintendo wasn't really the Nintendo we know now before Yamauchi.

Definitely, however that's less of an issue for employees that leave or are let go, because there's an expectation for them to return all company property. If they don't return the company phone, there's a little bigger of an issue that just data theft; they're stealing tangible company property.

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.

Yeah I'm not sure why the article said "require", when really employers are starting to *allow* BYOD.

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.

If they could remotely wipe that, I'd actually be interested.

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.