My employer who has been paying a portion of my phone bill with monthly reimbursement checks now wants me to switch my number to the company relinquish my primary line which i hold along with 3 other family lines how would that work for me i don't want to loose my privacy or change the plan i am on with verizon my number is out of contract and up for new every 2 i love my HTC Touch pro don't want to loose my number if i get another job as well just stuck in a rock and a hard place right now any suggestions should i just say no and pay for my own or say give me a phone and i will just keep my other phone and number .

If you want to keep your personal number, you'll need to buy another phone to hold onto it or let them supply with a phone that meets their policy. Lots of employers are changing policies here to save money and keep control of the number so that clients/partners don't end up calling an ex-employee and giving their business to them.

If your employer's made it a part of policy, you'll either need to get an exception to the policy (probably hard to impossible) or find a new job. You might be able to get them to sign some sort of agreement that you'll port your number to them, but that if you leave the company they're bound to return it to you (they might go for that).

How you want to play it depends on lots of things, but that's pretty much what it comes down to.

thanks more to think about

it all worked out.

Just out of curiosity, how did it work out?

I wrote a letter about being a mobile user who frequently changes his phones also being a primary number for cell plan with 3 other lines on it I also wrote about being private and that I have had the same number for a long time would like to keep it mine he understood so it worked out. I just fill out an expense report monthly .