On my first day at a new job in 1998, I watched a guy get escorted out of his office and the building carrying his stuff in a cardboard box. My use of the verb "escort" is ironic because it turned out that the guy had been running a prostitution ring. He'd gotten an 800 number that redirected to his office phone number, and he kept track of everything (names and phone numbers of his clients and girls and records of every arrangement) in a spreadsheet on his work computer. He only got busted because the company upgraded everybody's PC and had techs look through all the old PCs to make sure nothing important was going to get deleted; this dude had named his spreadsheet something like "call girls.xls" and had it on his Windows desktop.

This seemed amazing to me, but after working there a few months I realized how somebody could get that sloppy. IT Security at this place was fucking lax. None of us programmers had an identifiable boss or anything like clearly-defined responsibilities, or even rigid work hours. I remember one stretch for about a month where in a room with 50 people in it, all everybody did all day was call into the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? hotline and try to get onto the show.

Dude, seriously. Work phone/personal phone. The two never touch in any way, not even for so much as alternate contact method. I don't want my bank calling my work phone. I don't want my clients calling my personal. When Im not working the work phone gets set down next to the bed and doesn't get picked up again until the next time Im getting up and ready for work.

I truly do not understand how people can even tolerate having both of these parts of their lives on the same device. Is the hardship of two phones really that insurmountable for people when the benefits are so readily apparent?

I love me some whistle-blowing!

The app is external I've just done integrations with the API but I wouldn'tve trusted that app with the fact that I need air to breathe should have it been my choice