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Would you give up your 16GB iPhone for a 8GB if it were 100% free?

lokiju

lokiju

Lifer
Right now I'm using my personal 16GB iPhone to receive my company email and all that other good stuff.

My manager has convinced the higher ups to pay for me to have an iPhone and it's monthly cost covered since I use it to VPN in and use the RDP app to manage servers on the go all the time. The problem is they refuse to bend the rules beyond allowing me to be the only one with a company iPhone as far as just letting me expense my monthly service cost.

So they offered to buy me a new iPhone but only a 8GB and I can port my phone number over to it and they'll take 100% control of the account and cost.

If I decide to quit one day or get fired I am entitled to porting my phone number back to my own personal line at that time.


Some of the downsides are...
  1. 1: Going from 8GB to 16GB, but not a huge issue since I'm only using 8GB's now as it is on my 16GB

    2: I am in contract still with my personal account and it'll cost me $135 in early term fee, but that'd pay for itself in the first two months.

    3: I lose control of my device, maybe, but since I'm a sys admin, not really.

    4: My wifes family plan goes up, but still not more than we'd save.
All things considered, would you go for it?
 
Let your employer buy you an 8 GB iPhone, take the SIM card out of it and put it in your 16 GB iPhone. If your 16 GB iPhone is jailbroken, you're probably going to want to un-do that.
 
Absolutely. Even though I long to replace my 8GB with something larger, I could live with the inconvenience to save $1k/year.
 
It's like your boss walked up to you and shoved an extra grand into your pocket.

Is this really even a serious question?
 
Why not just have them take over financial reponsibility and you keep your current phone? That's what my company did. You don't incur any early termination that way and they still get control of your account. They also don't have the expense of a new phone. You obviously lose the cost of your phone, but in the long run, who knows if that will even be the case (Since as you say you are a sysadmin).
 
Originally posted by: Lotheron
Why not just have them take over financial reponsibility and you keep your current phone? That's what my company did. You don't incur any early termination that way and they still get control of your account. They also don't have the expense of a new phone. You obviously lose the cost of your phone, but in the long run, who knows if that will even be the case (Since as you say you are a sysadmin).
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did you read (and comprehend) the OP?
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Let your employer buy you an 8 GB iPhone, take the SIM card out of it and put it in your 16 GB iPhone. If your 16 GB iPhone is jailbroken, you're probably going to want to un-do that.
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That is one factor I didn't mention in the OP.

My current 16GB iPhone is jailbroken but while that'd probably be frowned upon here, as state before I'm the sys admin as it is and no one would have a clue...

I guess what makes me hesitate is losing that extra 8GB's and that feeling that even though they say I can port my number back, if the split in the unknown future is a bad one on bad terms I risk losing my number, which would really suck.

 
sounds like they are trying to keep everything the same, so they don't have that headache of too many special people, different things going on with billing....it sucks when you have a few people doing something out of the ordinary.
 
Originally posted by: Lotheron
Why not just have them take over financial reponsibility and you keep your current phone? That's what my company did. You don't incur any early termination that way and they still get control of your account. They also don't have the expense of a new phone. You obviously lose the cost of your phone, but in the long run, who knows if that will even be the case (Since as you say you are a sysadmin).
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I tried that. No go.

There is a strict phone policy that was enacted last year that doesn't allow for much if any bending of the rules.
 
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
sounds like they are trying to keep everything the same, so they don't have that headache of too many special people, different things going on with billing....it sucks when you have a few people doing something out of the ordinary.
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I argued the case that I expense my personal home internet already and I could just add my phone cost to that same monthly expense but its not gonna happen.
 
Originally posted by: lokiju
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
sounds like they are trying to keep everything the same, so they don't have that headache of too many special people, different things going on with billing....it sucks when you have a few people doing something out of the ordinary.
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I argued the case that I expense my personal home internet already and I could just add my phone cost to that same monthly expense but its not gonna happen.
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Yeah, similar thing happened here...too much of a headache for them they said...they would rather pay a grand extra + cost of the phone just to keep you on there setup, and not make things confusing.

pfft, jailbreak it anyway..everything will still work 🙂.
 
Originally posted by: Homerboy
Originally posted by: Lotheron
Why not just have them take over financial reponsibility and you keep your current phone? That's what my company did. You don't incur any early termination that way and they still get control of your account. They also don't have the expense of a new phone. You obviously lose the cost of your phone, but in the long run, who knows if that will even be the case (Since as you say you are a sysadmin).
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did you read (and comprehend) the OP?
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Yes I did.. Did you? I provided a very real alternative to the problem. Unfortunately it was later said he tried this without success.
 
Originally posted by: lokiju
The problem is they refuse to bend the rules beyond allowing me to be the only one with a company iPhone as far as just letting me expense my monthly service cost.
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Threaten to quit on the spot.
 
Originally posted by: lokiju
Originally posted by: mugs
Let your employer buy you an 8 GB iPhone, take the SIM card out of it and put it in your 16 GB iPhone. If your 16 GB iPhone is jailbroken, you're probably going to want to un-do that.
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That is one factor I didn't mention in the OP.

My current 16GB iPhone is jailbroken but while that'd probably be frowned upon here, as state before I'm the sys admin as it is and no one would have a clue...

I guess what makes me hesitate is losing that extra 8GB's and that feeling that even though they say I can port my number back, if the split in the unknown future is a bad one on bad terms I risk losing my number, which would really suck.
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OK, so how are you losing 8 GB? Just use your 16 GB phone with your company's SIM card. What am I missing here?

No one at your company may have a clue that your phone is jailbroken, but AT&T and/or Apple likely know (or could know). If they ever cracked down, it'd make you look pretty bad to your employer. It seems unlikely, but probably isn't worth the risk.
 
What if you tell your company you'd be willing to accumulate every 3 months of expenses to avoid much of the overhead/headache?

EDIT: Also create an Excel spreadsheet that show how much the company would be saving going the expense route versus opening a new account.
 
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