Leaving job, work email registered on everything

[Bleepbleepbleepman]

Any tips??! Please
I’m likely leaving my longstanding job for a new one in the next few weeks
Historically (and stupidly) I’ve registered literally everything I’ve signed up for to my work email and phone number so I have easy access on my laptop and phone.
has anyone been in a similar situation and managed to navigate changing this smoothly?

you are being unreasonable - you’ve got a nightmare ahead sorting this

you are not being unreasonable - there’s a way to sort this

It does seem a bit strange that your work and personal life are so enmeshed, to the point that you don't even have a personal phone!

But I agree with what others have said. Start with banking, savings, pensions, insurances and HMRC. Any professional organisations or resources you use for work that you might wish to continue with? Then home utilities.
Then move on to monthly subscriptions, and then the shopping sites. But frankly, they'd be very easy to set up new accounts for with a new email address anyway.

Basically, anything that would be a massive ballache to sort after the fact, do first. Anything that involves money.

A grown up 2FA mechanism will allow backup codes to be generated for offline use.

I have done this in my last few roles (IT managering) and given them to the CEO to be kept in an offsite fire safe (but he also took a picture of them on his phone).

I also screenshotted the QR code used to seed the authenticator (Google) so that another device could be used for 2FA. These too were kept in a safe (and I kept a local copy too).

All the issues being wailed about here are completely surmountable if you are paying the right people the right money to do the right job. And (as a colleague one said rather colourfully tough titties if you don't.

yes I and my colleagues had personal mobile phones before we were given work phones. and this was some 20 years ago

It does seem a bit strange that your work and personal life are so enmeshed, to the point that you don't even have a personal phone!

The novelty of having to carry 2 phones can wear off pretty quickly.

In my last role, I bought a set of VOIP numbers (3cx) and assigned them to staff and linked them to an app and piped the VOIP number to their app so a call to the work number could be answered (via the app) on a personal phone. When they left, just de-pipe the number and they can do what they want with the app.

Again, if you know, you know.

I prefer having two phones. I like to be able to ignore my work phone when I'm on leave or on holiday etc.

But each to their own.

I too am surprised people do this.
I have never used work email or work phone for anything other than work.
There is absolutely no way it would be allowed where I currently work or in any previous places I’ve worked.
I would not need my work phone or number if I don’t work there so would have no need to keep it.

I have never used my work email for my own stuff, but 2 years ago I switched from PlusNet to BT for my ISP.
I had been with PlusNet since 2003 and had to do a quick shuffle of a few accounts to my Gmail account, made easier that I use Firefox for all internet related stuff and the saved password section saved a lot of time finding the ones still linked to PlusNet.
2022 I was made redundant after 31 years (Site closed) and the joy of giving up that work mobile No (3 week on call rotation) was the best thing ever.

And that's fine for you. But it doesn't change the actual fact that 15 years ago 1 in 4 people didn't have access to the Internet in the UK in their home and as a consequence used work facilities or their local library or Internet cafe and 25 years ago it was 45 percent of people. So it's perfectly understandable how these situations have developed.

If you do not own your own domain (the bit after the "@") then you are at the mercy of whoever does.

I got my own myname.com domain not long after I bagged [email protected]

(That neither of them needs any numbers is a subtle sign of how long I have owned them 😀)

Oh, don't worry I still have 4 letter @MSN email from 1995.

Oh yes we get the fake emails as well! so you click on it and it says “you should not have clicked on this because it’s a dodgy email but don’t tell your colleagues”. I usually look at the email headers if I’m not sure and see who actually sent it and when I looked them up they were a well known cyber firm who specialise in that sort of thing as a solution for companies for cyber security awareness.

Yes, but they need to be willing to transfer via a PAC code that they request. The switch was then relatively simple.

Gosh you do realise your employers have access to your work email? I can’t imagine using it for personal stuff!
There’s no ‘list’, as what I attach my email too will be very different to yours, bar things like Amazon.

Our work have allowed some people to port their work phone numbers without issue.