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It's a pain that when you cannot do what you want to do. But it's not your laptop. It's the company's. But it is my craft, and to be limited to what tools I ca
by NewJazz 4mo ago
It's a pain that when you cannot do what you want to do. But it's not your laptop. It's the company's.
But it is my craft, and to be limited to what tools I can use in my craft can decrease the value of my work, and in doing so decrease the company's productivity.
- Arainach 4mo agoLet's say you earn a million dollars a year (most of us earn far less). At quite a few companies, a 50% decrease in your productivity (and changing browsers is nowhere near that) would cost the company significantly less than dealing with the fallout of any of the following: * A user intentionally leaking sensitive documents outside the corporate network * A user installing an infected browser extension that gives attackers access to corporate resources * A user accessing malware or ransomware which infects corporate resources. That's on top of the cost of having the IT department having to debug issues among users with bespoke tool sets which can often interact in unintuitive ways. There are many stupid ways that companies "optimize" costs that cost them more in the end. Standardizing the browser and extension set for data loss protection is not one of them.
- NewJazz 4mo agoAll of what you listed is preventable at a mild labor cost to the same degree as other browsers.
- Arainach 4mo agoThat's not obvious at all. The feature sets and tooling are very different. The person you replied to said as much. You (and I) aren't that special. People who are actually irreplaceable are astonishingly rare, and unless you're one of them, employees who will gripe about things like what web browser they use are often not worth the trouble at scale.
- NewJazz 4mo agoemployees who will gripe about things like what web browser they use are often not worth the trouble at scale. Firms who enforce homogeneity through policy are not worth the trouble at scale.
- alt227 4mo ago> But it is my craft Then go work for yourself. If you want the security of a regular salary, you need to jump through the hoops of your employer and not expect to be able to do 'your craft' however you see fit.
- NewJazz 4mo agoI don't think using a popular web browser is that unreasonable an accomodation.