Don't use the work phone as your personal phone

i hate this admonistration, hate the app but these are wprk phones. what are people expecting here?

My old job tried this w/ my personal cell phone (for logging in). I told them where to go with that. Then they threatened a layoff, so I had to relent while I looked for another job. Turns out my phone was too old to support the software.

They can't force me to upgrade and they were too cheap to buy me a new phone. They found a work around real quick as I couldn't do my job and they had to double me up w/ a coworker (OT). less then 24hrs later I was back on the network. And quit a few months later.

IT people were beside themselves, they were "you don't upgrade your phone ever new release" I was like F that noise I climb antenna's for a living, at no point to I need the latest and greatest to be an antenna monkey.

None of the the employees who spoke to WIRED say they are actively using the app. “Have not looked at it,” a Department of Labor employee tells WIRED. “Will not look at it.”

The only sane approach to propaganda

“Government devices typically include preinstalled apps that provide value to government employees’ day-to-day work.”

They should go back to doing that instead then.

I guess people here just can't grasp why this is different when it's the federal fucking government and not their shitty IT job

Can't get it off their....work phones.

Probably also can't get their work email and Teams and whatever else is on there off their work phones. Because they're work phones. If you're not on, put your work phone in a shoe box far from where you sit and hang out. faraday bag, even better.

Wired, c'mon. Only a genuine idiot would use a work phone as a personal phone. Anyone complaining about this gets what they deserve.

“It’s shooting pure unadulterated propaganda into our veins,” says another government employee. “Maybe Fox’s editorial standards are too high.”

Necessity is the mother of invention, I suppose.

https://www.nj.com/politics/2026/06/trump-just-hit-a-crazy-approval-rating-in-startling-new-poll.html

President Donald Trump’s approval rating has dropped to its lowest point during his two presidencies, according to a new poll.

A poll from the American Research Group, out Monday, found that approval for Trump stands at 30%, the lowest figure recorded across both of his terms. It is a 1 percentage point drop from May, when 31% of Americans were in support of the president’s performance.

Open the pod bay doors, Hal.

I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that right now.

Woops left my phone somewhere.

Yes... this is how Mobile Device Management works for every company. The company determines which apps you can have on your phone, and which are required. It's literally how work phones are handled by companies worldwide.