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Yeah, I am always shocked when I see people logged in to services and stuff at work. I use my phone, never on work wifi, to check e-mail, and if something comes
by x1798DE 11y ago
Yeah, I am always shocked when I see people logged in to services and stuff at work. I use my phone, never on work wifi, to check e-mail, and if something comes up that needs a real interface, I use my laptop (on work wifi, but with a VPN to my home router). Doing anything else seems like madness to me.
- cbhl 11y agoWhat happens if your employer sets up a stingray to intercept your cellular communications?
- jessaustin 11y agoHopefully they document the fact in discoverable fashion, so your lawsuit can have that extra "human rights violation" flavor.
- thieving_magpie 11y agoI use personal accounts at work. If texts to my wife are a problem, sure have at it. I'll start circulating my resume. Luckily I've never worked at an organization that wanted to own my life to that extent.
- Loughla 11y agoAlso, if my work is being measured by time spent on task instead of output, I'm working in the wrong place.
- nostrademons 11y agoEh, I figured everything I did on the corp network was visible to my employer, but I also didn't care for the most part. If I'm going to post on Hacker News or Reddit, it's on the public Internet, and so having corporate network monitoring catch it is the least of my worries. I just figured that the best defense against getting fired is delivering value to my employer; they didn't care if I take a HN break as long as my overall productivity stayed high. The same applies now that I'm self-employed, too. I did tend to use my phone for personal IMs & emails, but that was because we also used GMail for work, and I didn't want to bother with having an incognito window open all the time.
- zippergz 11y agoI have friends who not only login to all of the services at work, but use their employer-provided laptop as their ONLY computer. It kind of blows my mind. I'm not as strict about the separation as some, but I can't fathom using my work computer for all of my personal stuff outside of work.
- jessaustin 11y agoThis was sort of understandable in the '90s when decent (for then) laptops were expensive. It is baffling today now that laptops are cheaper than many phones.
- niels_olson 11y agoI'm in government. They gave me a laptop at one point. I gave it back. It's simply not worth having.