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Of course. It's completely normal to use company stuff for your own things, within reason. I print tickets or whatever at work, from my work laptop. Everyone do
by eythian 7y ago
Of course. It's completely normal to use company stuff for your own things, within reason. I print tickets or whatever at work, from my work laptop. Everyone does that, and no one cares so long as it's not abusive.
It's a weird idea that you have to be a complete robot at work and only ever do work things.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoNo one cares if you print tickets at work. But the nature of communications, malware, and legal risks to an organization via computers makes it so monitoring computer activities makes sense to me. But the official position of the company can’t be “everyone use the company’s resources as they see it for personal use”. So it’s best to just say company resources are for company. What if someone gets hurt using company machinery for personal use? In the US, that would be cause for the company’s workman’s compensation insurance premiums to increase. Why would an employer want that kind of headache?
- meowface 7y agoI agree, but I think if you do that, you should accept the employer having the right to potentially be able to see that information. In practice, from doing many of these investigations, no one bats an eye or gives a single shit about what kind of non-work activities you're doing. The visit to the ticket website would just be a few entries in a long list of other web visit entries, which we'd quickly scroll past while trying to find the thing we're actually looking for (usually malware-related traffic).