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Never seen anything like this IRL despite working at various major companies. Hell the other day I explained to my rather senior boss that the yellow teams icon

by Havoc 3y ago

Never seen anything like this IRL despite working at various major companies. Hell the other day I explained to my rather senior boss that the yellow teams icon means away from desk. Work is me trading my time for money, and I can begrudgingly accept some level of monitoring. That's after all what a boss is - they supervise aka monitor. However the blurrying of boundaries really irks me. This is part of the reason why I carry two phones, refuse to use remote desktops from personal devices and definitely don't connect personal devices to corporate wifi. Similarly that aggressive invasive student exam monitoring software in use makes me thankful I studied in more classic times.

ryandrake 3y ago
Yep, my policy is to never "cross the streams." Work stays on work-provided (and controlled) devices and personal stays on personal devices, and never the twain shall meet. I work remotely, so I even go so far as to ensure all my work-provided devices are on their own VLAN which is isolated from the rest of my network and only have limited Internet connectivity. I don't really understand people who use work devices for personal (sometimes VERY personal) tasks, or even worse vice-versa: Bring Your Own Device for work tasks.
- genocidicbunny 3y ago
  In many jobs, you're not provided a separate device to use for work. It's just expected that you will have a personal device that you can use. And if you have a problem with that, you can just go work somewhere else. I have been told in at least two interviews that a condition of my employment is that i have a relatively recent Android phone.
bitwize 3y ago
> Similarly that aggressive invasive student exam monitoring software in use makes me thankful I studied in more classic times. Fun fact: That aggressive invasive student exam monitoring software is a YC W'21 company: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/autoproctor https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/autoproctor

by Havoc 3y ago

ryandrake 3y ago

Yep, my policy is to never "cross the streams." Work stays on work-provided (and controlled) devices and personal stays on personal devices, and never the twain shall meet. I work remotely, so I even go so far as to ensure all my work-provided devices are on their own VLAN which is isolated from the rest of my network and only have limited Internet connectivity. I don't really understand people who use work devices for personal (sometimes VERY personal) tasks, or even worse vice-versa: Bring Your Own Device for work tasks.

genocidicbunny 3y ago
In many jobs, you're not provided a separate device to use for work. It's just expected that you will have a personal device that you can use. And if you have a problem with that, you can just go work somewhere else. I have been told in at least two interviews that a condition of my employment is that i have a relatively recent Android phone.

bitwize 3y ago

> Similarly that aggressive invasive student exam monitoring software in use makes me thankful I studied in more classic times. Fun fact: That aggressive invasive student exam monitoring software is a YC W'21 company: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/autoproctor https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/autoproctor