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Ok, so tonight I was working electronics. Guy buys a phone. After I check him out, he asks if I know how to unlock phones. As it turns out, I do, and I happen to know of a good website with instructions that cover most phones. I think to myself "no big deal. I'll provide some good guest service".
So I hit the site up on my cell phone and get the instructions for the phone he bought. Unlocked it. No problem. Whole process takes like 5 mins. Guy is happy and leaves.
Well, the TM who was in toys happened to be there while I was doing it and it seems he let the LOD (who happened to be our ETL-HL) know that I unlocked the phone.
About an hour later, the LOD is calling me to clerical. Basically chewed my ass out and told me to "never unlock another cell phone again" because it was "illegal" to do it. He told me that a message on workbench came out about this a few months ago, and that this was going in as a formal coaching.
I thought he was full of sh** about it being illegal, but I just looked it up, and I'll be damned, seems it actually did become illegal a few months ago.
So now I am wondering if there is any way I can get this coaching removed from my record? I honestly had no idea it was illegal to unlock phones now. I am not a TL like I used to be, and I don't ever get on workbench. Therefore, I think it is pretty unfair for me to be held accountable for some workbench message when I am not even supposed to be on workbench and no TL/ETL ever bothered to let anyone know about the message.
So I hit the site up on my cell phone and get the instructions for the phone he bought. Unlocked it. No problem. Whole process takes like 5 mins. Guy is happy and leaves.
Well, the TM who was in toys happened to be there while I was doing it and it seems he let the LOD (who happened to be our ETL-HL) know that I unlocked the phone.
About an hour later, the LOD is calling me to clerical. Basically chewed my ass out and told me to "never unlock another cell phone again" because it was "illegal" to do it. He told me that a message on workbench came out about this a few months ago, and that this was going in as a formal coaching.
I thought he was full of sh** about it being illegal, but I just looked it up, and I'll be damned, seems it actually did become illegal a few months ago.
So now I am wondering if there is any way I can get this coaching removed from my record? I honestly had no idea it was illegal to unlock phones now. I am not a TL like I used to be, and I don't ever get on workbench. Therefore, I think it is pretty unfair for me to be held accountable for some workbench message when I am not even supposed to be on workbench and no TL/ETL ever bothered to let anyone know about the message.