Never do anything on work machines/networks you don’t want to have to explain to hr/legal.
Absolutely. Everyone could use that reminder
Also do some really weird things that are innocuous so the HR lady looks at you weird from now on.
Examples please?
Open 100 tabs of Honey Bunches of Oats each and every morning
your work sees all your browser history
Possibly, if they’ve bothered to configure their machines that way. And only on the browsers they’ve configured that way and only on their machines.
Also, please don’t assume that your work operates the same way as everyone else’s work.
Everybody has a cell phone nowadays. There’s no excuse not to use your cell phone for private stuff. In fact don’t use the company Wi-Fi. You must use the company Wi-Fi then you must use a VPN
But no excuse anymore not to use your phone, you don’t need to use the word computer to browse, send emails, flirt, whatever
Everybody has a cell phone
All of my colleagues have work provided phones and laptops. They do all their personal shit on these devices (they don’t have their own)
They think i’m a huge weirdo for having my own personal devices… “Why waste money? Work gives us computer/phone… Lol, you carry two phones like a drug dealer?”
Then they have nobody to blame but themselves when drama happens.
IT: “You’ve been fired. Please return your laptop…”
“But how do i retrieve all my personal files?”
IT: [Shrug emoji]
Like IT gives you any time to get anything off a corporate-owned device.
When I got laid off, IT sent a bullet to my laptop immediately kicking me off and completely locking me out of it.
I was supposed to have another 4 days to transition my work. I contacted IT and was told once the bullet goes out, that’s it. Any and all access to everything has been terminated. Might as well just go home and enjoy the extra 4 days because no one’s going to undo a bullet going off early unless it comes from the C-suite. So I did.
Don’t most work Wifi networks prevent VPN use?
This has not been my experience
I used TOR at work once, to download some RPMs. Corp IT had a fucking meltdown
I can’t imagine why
Of course they can, they literally own the machine. You don’t own it, so don’t treat it like it’s your own private job hunting platform or porn viewer.
Until you get asked by HR why you’re breaking their policies by clearing history and why you’re doing it. If it’s a work device that’s not yours, don’t expect privacy. It’s their property.
They don’t need the computer to see everywhere you’ve gone. I’ve never heard of anyone getting in trouble for clearing their history, but lots of people who have had problems visiting questionable sites.
Joke’s on you, I’m the network admin in the office.
My company has no IT department they recently asked me if I wanted to help out with that and I reminded them that I only do linux and programming shit for fun and that doesn’t make me qualified to craft IT policy for the entire company 😅
Trust an IT guy, we all do linux shit for fun. But at the office it’s called “work”. You are qualified.
Woo! Everyone’s getting Arch on Monday 🤣🍻
On a more serious note I’ll take it under advisement.
Arch on work is called centOS or debian. Just a hint for your new job.
