Cell Phone Stolen

[Jstpssng]

At my last job, (1991-1995) we were hired for a 5 year timber inventory project. The volume workup was written on the program "Paradox".
3 years into it, the company stopped paying for the subscription and sent out an email stating "We no longer support this program, and are not authorized to run it. If you use it you accept all responsibility"
To do my job I had to use it, as they didn't offer any alternative and I am not a programmer.

 

[jyoutz]

At my last job, (1991-1995) we were hired for a 5 year timber inventory project. The volume workup was written on the program "Paradox".
3 years into it, the company stopped paying for the subscription and sent out an email stating "We no longer support this program, and are not authorized to run it. If you use it you accept all responsibility"
To do my job I had to use it, as they didn't offer any alternative and I am not a programmer.

I remember using Paradox for building a timber stand database. It was great for that purpose. Then it got replaced by access, which I never liked.

 

[ultrarunner]

Holy cow…. They wont pay you for work related phone. Tell them to call you on land line and leave message, and youll get to it when you can get back to office to receive messages.

HR says hourly employees have no obligation unless on the clock.

The phone was a legacy phone of sorts.

The positive is if I’m called to come in it’s overtime… something I never had being salaried.

 

[ultrarunner]

I was in the same situation before I retired. If I weren't willing to use my personal cell phone for company business, they would have fired me and hired someone who would.

Whether it was legal or not, it certainly wasn't ethical, but that's just the way it was.

I thought I could at least write the cost off but my CPA said no way as it is employer responsibility to provide hourly employees when required for the job…

 

[bdhsfz6]

I thought I could at least write the cost off but my CPA said no way as it is employer responsibility to provide hourly employees when required for the job…

My accountant said the same thing. He also said it would be difficult to separate personal use with business.

 

[gsganzer]

Doesn't help you with a stolen phone, but I wanted to share this tip:

On my "locked" screen, it says "If found, call or text 940-395-xxxx, Thanks!". It's the number for my wife's phone (or could be anyone else you know).

I learned it from one of the morning news programs. They did it to a phone and then left it in various places like a restaurant, gym, park bench, hotel etc. In 90% of the instances, someone called or texted the number and they were able to arrange to get the phone back.

Funny thing, it actually worked for me! A few weeks ago, I was leaving my back property after retrieving a spool of barbed wire I had lying next to the barn. Unbeknownst to me, the wire had been sitting on a fire ant mound and when I picked it up to throw into the back of my truck, the fire ants got all over and inside my shirt. As I got partway down the road, the jefe fire ant yelled "attack" and they commenced their assault! I quickly pulled over, jumped out and yanked my shirt off, smacking the evil little buggers, then jumped back in my truck and drove away. Unknowingly, my phone went flying and landed by the edge of the pavement. I got about 10 miles down the road and someone called and texted my wife's phone, who was sitting in the truck with me. We met the lady by the roadside and thanked her profusely! What a lifesaver!

I travel all the time and I'm constantly getting in/out, up/down, airport security, airplanes, rent cars, hotel checkouts, restaurants etc. The chances of me inadvertently leaving or dropping my phone somewhere is huge.

 

[MossRoad]

You obviously don't remember prank calls. Before anybody heard of caller ID or even *69 I had a wrong number at 4:30 one morning. No problem, right? Except the D-head made it a point to call me every morning at the same time for a week. I was not impressed.

Had someone call us late every evening and wouldn't say anything. If I hung up, they'd call back. Dozens of times. So I'd just put the handset on the floor under a pillow and go back to sleep. The phone used to make an off-the-hook sound if he'd hang up. As soon as I'd put it back on the receiver he'd call back. Went on for weeks. So I opened a police case to get the phone company to put a trace on the phone. If he called back, I was supposed to immediately hang up and push a sequence of numbers, then call the phone company. They'd keep it open for 30 days.

The first day it was activated, the guy stopped calling. Then no calls for 30 days. The last day the trace was on, the guy called back. I followed the instructions. Several days later the police called and said they caught the guy. However, they would not tell me who it was because I might retaliate against him. Grrrrr. Does not make one feel safe not being able to know who it is.

Anyhow, never called again. I suspect it was either a phone company employee or a cop, due to the timing of when the order was issued and the time they stopped, and the day the order was set to expire and they called back.

 

[jyoutz]

Had someone call us late every evening and wouldn't say anything. If I hung up, they'd call back. Dozens of times. So I'd just put the handset on the floor under a pillow and go back to sleep. The phone used to make an off-the-hook sound if he'd hang up. As soon as I'd put it back on the receiver he'd call back. Went on for weeks. So I opened a police case to get the phone company to put a trace on the phone. If he called back, I was supposed to immediately hang up and push a sequence of numbers, then call the phone company. They'd keep it open for 30 days.

The first day it was activated, the guy stopped calling. Then no calls for 30 days. The last day the trace was on, the guy called back. I followed the instructions. Several days later the police called and said they caught the guy. However, they would not tell me who it was because I might retaliate against him. Grrrrr. Does not make one feel safe not being able to know who it is.

Anyhow, never called again. I suspect it was either a phone company employee or a cop, due to the timing of when the order was issued and the time they stopped, and the day the order was set to expire and they called back.

Couldn’t you just block the caller?

 

[MossRoad]

Couldn’t you just block the caller?

Not back then. The technology wasn't available here.

 

[grsthegreat]

Doesn't help you with a stolen phone, but I wanted to share this tip:

On my "locked" screen, it says "If found, call or text 940-395-xxxx, Thanks!". It's the number for my wife's phone (or could be anyone else you know).

I learned it from one of the morning news programs. They did it to a phone and then left it in various places like a restaurant, gym, park bench, hotel etc. In 90% of the instances, someone called or texted the number and they were able to arrange to get the phone back.

Funny thing, it actually worked for me! A few weeks ago, I was leaving my back property after retrieving a spool of barbed wire I had lying next to the barn. Unbeknownst to me, the wire had been sitting on a fire ant mound and when I picked it up to throw into the back of my truck, the fire ants got all over and inside my shirt. As I got partway down the road, the jefe fire ant yelled "attack" and they commenced their assault! I quickly pulled over, jumped out and yanked my shirt off, smacking the evil little buggers, then jumped back in my truck and drove away. Unknowingly, my phone went flying and landed by the edge of the pavement. I got about 10 miles down the road and someone called and texted my wife's phone, who was sitting in the truck with me. We met the lady by the roadside and thanked her profusely! What a lifesaver!

I travel all the time and I'm constantly getting in/out, up/down, airport security, airplanes, rent cars, hotel checkouts, restaurants etc. The chances of me inadvertently leaving or dropping my phone somewhere is huge.

thanks, i never knew about this. i just added it to my Samsung S9. many thanks