Your Cell phone!

Ive been getting my daughters old work phones for number of years now. But the newest one theyve given has encrypted stuff on it and she says they have to be handed back this time in exchange for the newer one.

She now refuses to carry or answer her work phone out of working hours though. Its a back door way of getting people to work more for free.

I have two phones actually. My work one I never answer. I wait for them to leave me a message. It cuts down on the speculative new patients.

If they want me, they can start on the answerphone.

I LOVE my smart phone. I also love my tablet and computer.

I am a technology person.

Before we got cell phones at work there was the general acceptance of employees using their landline phones for work purposes. It was a sticking point with me which the management were not happy with as I said I was not going to use the landline phone for work purposes unless they contributed to the bill. They never did. When we started using mobiles it did not take them long to clarify use of the mobile for home calls and allocate the costs accordingly. My work phone was always off outside working hours unless I was on-call.

I also still have a landline: I won't give up that valuable resource. Plus, I need my landline for my Internet.

But things do change and I can understand why many people don't bother with a landline anymore.

That would be the way I would prefer it although the landline is useful occasionally. The main reason for the line's existance is for the Internet connection.

Speaking of landlines, internet, and tv.

We do all haggle over prices every time our contract runs out?

I dont haggle or jump ship. we have Ziggo ( upc run by liberty global) they include radio and BBC channels.

Or theres KPN The offical Dutch telecom company or T-mobile they offer a much more limited TV/film service than Ziggo.

So no choice really OH is very attached to BBC

LOL good for you.

I just thought I would mention that all the providers afaik, have a department for it. All you have to do is ask for the department that try and talk you out of leaving when your contract ends.

There tends to be very little waiting for that call to be taken up lol, and they are quick to offer you a better deal.

I tend to hate the hassle too and often just jump elsewhere without discussion. I must admit though that I got a significant reduction on my car insurance from the same company by going online and accessing them via one of these price comparison sites. From previous experience I don't think I would have got the same deal contacting the company direct. I am thinking that, with cookies, IP adresses etc, these companies know who you are as soon as you access their sites. I think, even if it generally is not quite that, with the Internet company you have your contract with, they can monitor your searches elsewhere. Whether this is legal? or if they do?

I don't even know if I have a land line.

My cell phone service is paid by my employer, I know we have internet and cable TV as a package.

That's why I delete my browsing data when I exit...so that companies can't serve me ads based on my searches, or subject me to dynamic pricing based on the number of times I viewed a product.

I am currently getting ads on here for garage style shelving lol

I don't think that would work for me because I get recommendations based on things I say out loud LOL and I do not have one of those things you talk to... Siri and whatever else!