Work Phone bill - £2400!!!

Blatchford

Smellyonion wrote: »

It will be a costly mistake for the employer if found to be vicariously liable.

Which will never happen.

This thread is excellent entertainment. I do hope that the poster either isn't real or doesn't take the majority of the advice on here, because I do see the prospect of that £2400 going up when they end up paying their employers legal and court costs.

But the poster has never been back, so I suspect they never will.

SueC_2

Smellyonion wrote: »

My hunch is that the employer is on an archaic contract which they have been running since 2010, where data is extortionately charged.

Funnily enough, in the last hour I have been reviewing my company's most recent mobile phone bill.

One employee has incurred charges of £100 for going over his data allowance. The allowance is 7GB, and he used 12GB. Multiply that up, and it's not a million miles away from what the OP has incurred.

Ours is not an archaic contract, it's one that was negotiated less than 2 years ago. Had the employee stuck within his 7GB allowance, the charge for his data would have been £4.72.

'Out of package' charges are where the mobile phone companies earn the big bucks. You may not consider that 'right' or 'fair', but that doesn't make it illegal. They set their tariffs, and you choose the one that works best for you. Once you have signed that contract, then you are responsible to pay the costs accordingly.

The OP could ask his employer for leniency. The employer could ask the mobile phone provider for leniency. I have known instances where both have worked. But in the event that both are unsuccessful, I can see no doubt that the person who is ultimately responsible for this cost is the OP. That may have changed slightly had they used the data for work purposes, but by their own admission, it was their own personal usage that ran up the bill.

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Why has this thread run to 64 posts????

Exodi

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

Why has this thread run to 64 posts????

Two posters going against everyone else in the thread and arguing that the employer was negligent and should pay it.

I was originally fired up to keep debating it but I'm becoming increasingly convinced that Smellyonion is trolling and as you've said, it's reached 65 posts and the OP is long gone.