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Old job demanding I pay mobile phone bill.
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Everyone on here is feeding the troll
Saving for a year in Japan.
I need around £10,000. Help me get there! :cool:0 -
If you haven't done so (or already received it) ask your ex employer to provide you with a copy of the itemised Orange phone bill.
£250 of calls made on a PAYG sim would cost a lot more than that, compared to costs on a business tariff so on a business tariff if you made those calls you made a hell of a lot of em.
A possibility could be that your ex employers current business contract was part way through its duration. In those instances to move an existing number on to a consumer PAYG would I believe generate an invoice for the monthly rental costs for that individual number up to the end of the business contract. That £250 in that scenario could include those rental costs ...and generally those costs would be passed on to the employee (though would usually be agreed or discussed in advance).
Your number wouldn't be "ported" either, not if it remained on the same network. It would just be a switch from the business account to a consumer account. Unless its improved in recent years that was never a straightforward process to arrange there and complicated by their billing cycles too.
Either way they may not have asked for the sim back but, knowing the transfer hadn't yet happened, you should have had the sense not to use the phone again until it was sorted once you were no longer wth the company.0 -
Without stating the obvious, sounds very much like somebody got hold of your sim card after you handed it back and managed to rack up a bill? Therefore out of your hands, and in my opinion not your fault.0
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bigdavecox90 wrote: »Without stating the obvious, sounds very much like somebody got hold of your sim card after you handed it back and managed to rack up a bill? Therefore out of your hands, and in my opinion not your fault.
Are you illiterate?
He didn't give the SIM card back and acknowledges that he racked up the bill!I was born too late, into a world that doesn't care
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair0 -
iamana1ias wrote: »Are you illiterate?
He didn't give the SIM card back and acknowledges that he racked up the bill!
Sorry....no need to be rude.
I misread it.0 -
Cough up or watch your old employer phone up your new one and screw up your chances there too................Make £2026 in 2026
Prolific £177.46, TCB £10.90, Everup £27.79, Roadkill £1.17
Total £217.32 10.7%Make £2025 in 2025 Total £2241.23/£2025 110.7%
Prolific £1062.50, Octopoints £6.64, TCB £492.05, Tesco Clubcard challenges £89.90, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £70, Shopmium £53.06, Everup £106.08, Zopa CB £30, Misc survey £10
Make £2024 in 2024 Total £1410/£2024 70%Make £2023 in 2023 Total: £2606.33/£2023 128.8%0
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