I can't trust letting out my specific workplace (got burnt once on FB from a coworker sending a screenprint of me just making a general comment: “hate my workplace”)
For 4 years, our offsite manager has continued to press us to download an app from a distributor onto our personal cellphone ( Mger: “…what's the problem, MY staff doesn't mind. The distributor doesn't want to support portable inventory scanners they've supplied anymore, and they want us to just use their app on our phones and do the inventory {for inventory of several hundred items, totalling many tens of thousands of dollars} I have X and Y work app on my workplace anyway, why does this bother you?” Mgr Says.) then we (Apparently somehow)use them to scan product, upload totals to the distributor who sends us a spreadsheet of what we enter, and then of course, 1 or 2 of us have to go through the spreadsheet to correct totals and, of course, WE have to 'justify' our site inventory total every year (which we happen to have ZERO ability to affect at any point in any year).
It's a 2 part frustration, 1 that they EXPECT us to just do this without a qualm, 2, that the manager cannot get it through his head from the beginning of this new expectation, WHY all of us are so “bothered” about this “minor” ask.
I'd be curious if this is just a hangup from us old Boomers and Gen Xers at this expectation, and “everyone” else out there in workplaces with inventorying, doesn't think twice about using one's personal cellphone as your workplace inventory scanner?