Once upon a time, I only had a dumb phone. It had a slide up screen with a little mini keyboard. I pretty much never used it because it was annoying and too much of a hassle. Then I got an iPhone from my company and it was love. It didn't take long before the phone became an indispensable part of my day.
I gave up my old dumb phone and used my company phone for everything. I didn't understand why anyone would have a personal phone and a company phone when my employer was so generous with their rules for the mobile device.
Then COVID-19 happened.
I work for an airline and traffic plummeted. I was like I'm either going to lose my job, lose my phone, or both. I need to get my own iPhone. Just in case.
I went with the cheapest plan I could find. I'm almost always hooked to WiFi, so I don't need a lot of data. Ordered my phone and waited. Until my phone order was cancelled because they didn't have a white phone. Seriously I hadn't cared about the color, I just chose one. Since I couldn't update my order, I had to reorder a new one. This time I went with yellow. That one I got.
But as I tried to move everything over to my new phone, I discovered the tentacles of my old phone number were everywhere. In places I didn't even know about. Or it needed to be updated in more than one place. Which is stupid. Companies, do you hear me? If I update my phone number in one place, update it across your entire system. Gah!
Anyway, after months I was still discovering places with my old phone number that I never even thought about. This makes me wonder what other places I've forgotten.
So far, I still have my phone and my job. (Fingers crossed that I at least keep the job after Sep 30.) But I learned a valuable lesson about phones and why people were using personal phones in addition to the company phone. There's never a guarantee that the company will let you keep the phone indefinitely. It's also a major pain to transfer everything to my new phone number. I wish I'd kept things separated from the start.
These tentacles go everywhere!
