Leaving job, work email registered on everything

Search your inbox for everything with the words:
invoice
order
subscribe
and then change your email with each company.

You'll find the changeover much easier if you do it while you still have access to the works address and phone. Not IMPOSSIBLE after, but a lot easier before!

Worst case scenario you have to set up a new account with a personal email address.

It isn't the worst case scenario @LionelMushroom
It is the only case scenario

Most places disable email addresses when people leave, so anyone sending and email to the OP after she has left will get an undeliverable email notification.

I am astounded at how lax IT securtity is at her workplace. Her email misuse would have been picked up where I work and she would probably have had a verbal or written warning.

I'm also surprised at how many office based employees (home or at a workplace) have work mobiles. We just have phone software in our laptops and headsets if we need to make or receive phone calls. So much cheaper than a mobile. Of course it is different if you are field based or travelling around where you need a mobile.

Surely you must have something like password manager on your computer/account, similar to Google? If they're all saved etc? Work your way through that.

Or every time you log in or buy something or whatever let that be the prompt to change your details.

Otherwise, unless you have 2 factor Auth on everything it doesn't actually matter if what is in effect your username is an old email address. You'll still have access to whatever you're logging into.

Someone mentioned setting up multiple email addresses but you don’t need to do that with gmail you can use the + symbol like this.

so say your email is [email protected] you can do this:

joebloggs+[email protected]
joebloggs+[email protected]
[email protected]

etc etc

You can also put a dot anywhere before the @ so…

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

THIS ONLY WORKS WITH GMAIL don’t know about other providers…

Presuming your work email includes information unique to you - name or staff ID number (as opposed to a generic mailbox) you might be able to arrange some email ‘rules’ or ‘out of office’ message with the agreement of your IT department.

Otherwise think bank, insurances, pension and other financial institutions, gym or hobby memberships, on-line shopping sites, social media, music, app stores, doctor, dentist, other medical, restaurant or food subscriptions.

Worst case scenario you have to set up a new account with a personal email address.

My old boss did this and absolutely everything cane to her work address. What a mess her inbox was! She couldn’t see the issue
with it and then her McAfee needed updated for her home computer and she just couldn’t grasp that she couldn’t just download it on her work pc…no you have to access it on the actual pc you want to protect. It was like talking to a slightly arrogant brick wall.

How did you get the idea that the OP wants to steal her work phone?

Because if a work related clients-mails her they will then have her personal e-mail address.

Yeah, don't ever do that again! Work email is not for personal stuff.

Here's what you should do. Get yourself a free personal email address with Gmail or similar.
Make a list of your financial and health accounts first and before you leave get all of them changed over to your personal email. Banks, credit cards, mortgage, HMRC, loans, hire purchase or lease car, plus NHS and your GP practice log in.

Then do utilities: energy, TV, broadband, water, mobile phone, council tax, TV licence etc

Then do insurance: car, breakdown, home, travel.

Then start trawling through your emails for all other personal emails from organisations. Forward 1 from each to your personal email. Include any from the above sections that you don't manage to get to before you leave the job

Also trawl your bank and card statements and PayPal for money you've spent recently. You'll remember spending online, so you can contact those. I'm thinking Next, Shein, M&s etc

And just to repeat, don't do it again 😁

@Bleepbleepbleepman I was in your shoes three months ago, 22y of email & phone registrations to sift through manually! Bummer but please don’t panic & it took a while - but I allowed a small amount of time daily & considered it a blessing in disguise as there were many legacy registrations which were no longer needed and I happily left behind.

mobile number - just ask your company for the policy on this. Mine (very large corporate) was happy to issue PAC to allow me to keep the number. Obviously I returned the handset. My phone provider (O2) then added the ‘old’ number to my personal phone through e-SIM so now I’m able to access both (old work and new personal) through one personal mobile phone.

You've got quite a poor imagination then!

You should had in your work mobile phone. It isn't yours. Someone did this at my place of work , it didn't end well. She was sent many e-mails and letters asking for the return of the phone, she chose to ignore them, long story short, she now has a criminal record for theft and deception. Hand it back, it isn't worth it. Have you not got your own personal phone?

You can use Google to remember your web passwords, then it will work anytime you use chrome on any device. Phone number might be more difficult.

Yes get a PAC code and port the number over to your own device That's what I did easy Peasy

yes to phone number
the work email thing is a lesson learned. You just need to re-register everything pronto.

Why would you use your work email for Facebook and credit checking etc? I already have too many emails of deal with without having to deal with Facebook notifications and other emails while at work.

Anyway you have to start trying to change them one by one, there's no service that can change them on your behalf or in one go.

And the the phone number, different companies have different policies, I left Deloitte once and they gave me the option to buy the iPhone for $50 which I did and some will give option to take the line or not. You can only ask to confirm.

Try to make a list of the critical sites you need and start making updates to your personal email address.

Go into your keychain and look up all your saved email addresses and passwords, and work through it systematically

If you are not keeping your number or your phone, then you'll also need a way to store your personal contacts and photos. Make sure these are also backed up.

I'd think about buying a new device and getting a new number now too. Until you know if you can port your number, then you will need a new number anyway to set up 2FA. If you are allowed to port your number, then you can do this to the new number on the new device later (IE switch back) If you aren't allowed to port, then at least you know that and can plan accordingly.

If you get stuck, it would be worth going to a phone shop and asking them to help you. Explain the problem. They should be helpful. They may be able to help transfer data between phones for you too.

I kept my number when I left my last job, about 15 years ago now. I don’t see why your employer wouldn’t let you keep yours.
But I’d be sacked if my current employer found out I was using my work email address for personal
use. If your employer isn’t aware, you might want to keep quiet about that.

It's really quite normal to be able to keep or port your work number - I've done it before and my current firm would allow it too.

That said I would never use my work email to sign up for personal stuff sorry OP!

You need to get on this today. First things first

1. Banking
2. Government/council tax etc
3. Utilities
4. Amazon/netflix ie shopping and logins
5. Then go through your Internet history and check what sites you have logged into for the past month and change those
6. Then rack your brains for anything else

Differently situation but I was locked out of my main personal email recently, possibly permanently, so have had to change everything over. I recommend changing everything over ASAP. Some things are straightforward but others require access to the old email in order to change to a new one.

I wish somebody had offered me that! My email account wasn't blocked to me for a couple of months, but I could only read, not send, I suspect, but can't confirm that incoming mail was being monitored and an auto-reply generated, to inform contacts who was now dealing with my job.

Because her work email will be deleted as soon as she leaves. They won't just leave it active. Out of office only works for active email accounts.