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I would never work at your company. I use my own tools, thank you.
by indymike 3y ago
I would never work at your company. I use my own tools, thank you.
- TylerE 3y agoAre you required to maintain PCI compliance? Do you touch customer personal info?
- jonathankoren 3y agoYou're own tools are your own personal files? Interesting. How do your vacation pictures help you do your job?
- indymike 3y ago> How do your vacation pictures help you do your job? This question is why I don't want the company laptop.
- suslik 3y agoNot the OP, but personal files are not just vacation pictures. I work in R&D and I have my org-mode/roam on various scientific and technical topics going back 15 years or so. I use these for work to benefit my current company, and maintaining two parallel versions of these is rather inconvenient.
- TylerE 3y agoIsn’t that exactly what a cloud drive is for? There’s a difference between using your personal notes for business purposes on the one hand, and keeping company property and data on a machine totally outside IT control. That’s just a massive lawsuit waiting to happen, and it’s bad for the employee too - why would you want the liability?
- indymike 3y agoI don't want or accept IT control of my personal machine.
- suslik 3y agoI would't store company data or code outside of approval services, but one might say that my notes, including notes on the people I meet and projects I work on, can constitute proprietary information - so yeah, it is a bit of a grey area still.
- TylerE 3y agoI am speaking of company property in only the narrowest sense, ie. physical objects and IP (and I guess property but I've been WFH for a decade, so,..
- baq 3y agoMy personal vim config on a company laptop? No problem whatsoever, neither for me, nor the company. A bittorrent client without preauthorization with IT and security? It's basically asking to get fired. My vacation photos on a company laptop? Tricky - not a huge deal but not recommended. Better upload them to your cloud backup quickly.
- TylerE 3y agoYup,. you get it, exactly! It's not a surveillance state, but don't be stupid, and certainly don't LEAN into it.