Work trying to steal my number

Macha

Hi guys,

I just quit work and they're tyring to take my mobile number. I had a number before I started and they changed it over to a new provider & started paying the bill.

Surely they can't take my number as it was mine originally???


thanks

T

Sam Vimes

i can't see why they'd want to. go to the person who organises these things in the company and say you want authorisation to move the number

chrislad

Technically, it's neither of yours. It's the networks.

But that said, unless the contract is in your name, there's little you can do. They do technically own it if it's in their name.

Solair

I'd suggest you have a reasonable conversation / send an email explaining the situation to whoever manages your telephone accounts. It's not going to be any advantage to the company to have your personal calls driving some new employee mad.

They'd be better of just issuing a new number and giving yours back. Ask the person managing it to close the account and request whichever network it is, to port it back to a pre-pay account. That way you can port it to whoever you like.

If the bill's now in your company's name, there's no way you can take the number without their permission as the contract is with them.

If the account's still in your name and they're just paying it, ring the network operator and port it to prepay or whatever you want to do.

Macha

Rats.

This is the reason I left that feckin place - nasty to the core

Ok cool, thanks for the advice guys

FergalBoards.ie

This is not solely a cellular network issue, it is also a work/life balance issue.

Giving legal advice on Boards is prohibited, so I will outline some issues.

The company may have a confidentiality/privacy policy that seeks to limit your contact with former work-related contacts after you leave the post. That is a reasonable concern.

You may have an issue such as a personal contact who is difficult to contact by you but rings you occasionally when they feel lonely and that relationship goes back to before your time with the company.
In this situation you may have reasonable privacy/confidentiality concerns.

Particularly if no arrangement was made before they began paying for the bill as to what might happen the number, I would seek legal advice.

I would deal with this outside the framework of cellular providers.

Random

perhaps the reason they want to number is because it's been used externally to deal with clients and they don't want an ex employee taking such calls. Pretty reasonable from their point of view.

Worth a sit down with the guy running the numbers in your company though and see if he can sort it out.

On the other side, do you really want to continue to receive work calls long after you leave?

Flying

Simple transfer of ownership form should suffice, I will most likely being doing it when I leave my current employment for greener pastures;)

Random

Flying wrote: »

Simple transfer of ownership form should suffice, I will most likely being doing it when I leave my current employment for greener pastures;)

Must be signed and authorised by the current owners, hence his current problem.

_Kaiser_

This is why when my company asked if I wanted to transfer my number to the group account, I said no thanks and got a seperate phone and number from them.

Sure it means carrying around 2 phones, but I can turn the work one off at half 5, and it's a lot easier than having to sort through itemised bills to see what were work related and what were personal calls.