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[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 13 points 21 hours ago

When I started my current job I asked my boss about the troubles I was having getting my work emails sent to my phone, and he asked me incredulously “Why the hell would you want work emails on your cell phone?” Good point. First time my boss has ever been a decent human being.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Never EVER install work software on a personal device.

If you require me to use software to do the job, you've gotta provide me with a device to run that software on. Absolutely no leeway there. That includes things like Slack and Teams.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You do not speak for all. I like slack on my phone! I chat shit to colleagues in the evening sometimes (I don't get out much)

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I do the same.

Only, I message my work friends on my work chat on my work device and invite them to become my friends on my non work chat (usually discord since that's where everyone is, Signal if the friend in question is there). That way we can talk about anything we want, even complain about work, without fear of eventual retribution if a bad boss / chat admin enters the equation.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago

Ah, I also do this 😅 but not with everyone. Some people I don't fancy having in my discord for one reason or another...

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

For those of us who understand this same joy, Microsoft recently released a notification saying that they're going to make it so that Microsoft Authenticator no longer functions on rooted or jailbroken devices.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure any other 2FA TOTP app can be used instead; you just have to enter the six-digit code.

Did this because my work laptop arrived before the phone.

[–] ndupont@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

Yup, never installed the MS crap and used Google authenticator before moving everything to Bitwarden authenticator when it was released

[–] Jayb151@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Depends on the IT department. My previous place actually disabled 3rd party authenticators...I list half a day of work because I needed a domain admin to flush my Google authenticator so I can re-enroll with M$ Authenticator.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 1 points 16 hours ago

Fair. Just found out my PC has the "detect you reusing your login password on other sites" feature turned on... when I entered my old password into the change password box.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I just get the pop-up to enter the two digit code that is displayed on my computer.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 1 points 16 hours ago

You need to enroll a TOTP app as a 2FA method, then you should be able to select which you use.

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just make it send a text instead, fuck the authenticator.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, don't get too attached; your company can disable that.

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I'm hoping the constant complaints of the app being down several days a week will stop them making it worse.

[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago

The Azure outage yesterday made ms authenticator unable to connect for... The whole day. Couldn't log in to anything at all.