Does Your Company Pay For Broadband?

masq57 writes "My fellow administrators and I used to have company provided ISDN lines in our homes so that we could respond quickly to issues after hours. That was changed in the last few years to letting us expense our broadband service. Now our new CIO has elected to stop that benefit using the argument that we should be dedicated staff who desire to be responsive and should do what it takes to make that happen. The rumor now is that we should also pay for blackberries, cell phones and pagers. What sort of experiences do the rest of slashdotters have along these lines?"

Comments

Re:Easy one.

[m2bord]

i never will lose my job over such ridiculousness.

my company is the cheapest that there is...heck...we have to bring in our own pens....

but i have told my employer that i pay for my cell and they have no right to call it.

i have my own servers and my own net connections and since i pay for them, i don't do company work over them.

and i don't want a pager/blackberry. my wireless phone has text messaging capabilities but i haven't given them that info either...

i've been here for five years and i'm a key figure.

hey...if they was me to respond afterhours, then they need to make it worth my while.

blah blah blah

[Scudsucker]

I see you fell for the boilerplate-1950's era-management propoganda shpeal. Have unions screwed up? Sure, but thats a reason to make your's better, its not a reason to get rid of them entirely. Why don't we apply the same faulty logic to businesses: some businesses have bad policies, have screwed their employees and their customers. Therefor, lets get rid of all businesses!