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When I was an employee of BizRate/Shopzilla in 2005 I would take my laptop downstairs to my car parked in the company parking garage, and code on my personal pr
by andrewfromx 10y ago
When I was an employee of BizRate/Shopzilla in 2005 I would take my laptop downstairs to my car parked in the company parking garage, and code on my personal project for exactly 1 hour from 12-1 my lunch break. But the laptop was charged with electrons from shopzilla's office plug and the parking garage turns out is still technically on the company's property.
- brianwawok 10y agoSo you got sued and lost it?
- andrewfromx 10y agono, there never was any suing, but trying to adhear to the contract I signed was just impossible. Everywhere you looked you were using a company resource somehow.
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- jogjayr 10y agoDrive to a coffee shop for lunch and work there?
- andrewfromx 10y agoyeah but what if laptop battery was filled with electricity from their office where they pay the electric bill. When I use said laptop in coffee shop, who's resource am I using? Mine cuz I own the laptop or theirs or both?
- jogjayr 10y agoCharge the laptop at the coffee shop. Or charge it up to full before leaving home for work; you're unlikely to run out working for an hour-long lunch.
- andrewfromx 10y agohehe NO that's the point. What if I wanna work on my project from 2pm to 6pm and then back to work for the company from 7pm to 11pm. GitHub has it right. Let the workers work from where and when they want.
- LiquidFlux 10y agoBeside your point, did you happen to use their wifi?
- andrewfromx 10y agoI seem to recall being really careful with a usb drive to move everything to from laptop but it was all insane. No one wanted the code I was writing and making me jump thru all those hoops ruins the creative process. Bravo GitHub. This should be a new standard.