Well what will your work do if you just don't get one? Will you get fired? If they've let you get away with it since last summer, can't you just tell them you appreciate you need to get one, but ultimately it is a phone you need to be comfortable with and 'get on with' in terms of usability, so you'd appreciate just a couple more months because the device you really want is being released in the new year? Or a pre-bought N900 and just put a Verizon sim in?