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Around 2015, My niece told me she worked at a bank teller and the first thing they did was require her to install the bank's app and rate it five stars. She said her phone is too old and they got angry. And she'd tell me they'd do "phone sweeps" to see if the app was on people's phones.
Do min-wage companies still do this or do they know better?
Lmao wtf? Sounds illegal as hell.
I’m not installing anything work requires on my personal devices, f ‘em.
I have told managers, to their faces, I do not have a smart phone... While holding my smart phone.
So far, while most have quite noticeably glanced at my phone, none have actually called me out on it.
If any of them ever do, I will just get a prepaid flip phone and use that for work.
"What's that in your hand, then?"
"That's not my hand."
Potato?
Welcome to employee abuse. When your job is tied to whether you can pay rent, health insurance and credit, they've got you by the balls.
Personal devices are personal.
Nowhere in the civilized world are they allowed to do this.
Not even to use your employee discount?
Where I used to work employees could access the discount just by ticking a box in the cash-register system. None of my co-workers had a fidelity card, although one of our tasks was to push it aggressively to customers.