The thing is, I am the IT guy. I’m 19 years old and this is my first IT job, I didn’t know well. I’m buying the license on Friday. Again, I’m sorry, it was a mistake and I learned from it.
Just ask them to re-image it. An individually bought key might not pass audit. I recall my company getting audited by Adobe for Acrobat and we had to pay about $12k sure there were lots of individually purchased copies of Acrobat. Adobe did not care if we showed them the receipt for it.
Go with humility first, you screwed up. Follow it up with a joke about how you discovered a flaw in the configuration of work laptops, and now they can fix it to prevent someone else from being able to do that 🤷♂️
I think you’ll be ok
Thanks, I thought of something even better. Slap Linux on that thing! Wipe the whole drive on “accident”. Linux is way more innocuous than pirate Windows 🤷♂️
The thing is, I am the IT guy. I’m 19 years old and this is my first IT job, I didn’t know well. I’m buying the license on Friday. Again, I’m sorry, it was a mistake and I learned from it.
Just ask them to re-image it. An individually bought key might not pass audit. I recall my company getting audited by Adobe for Acrobat and we had to pay about $12k sure there were lots of individually purchased copies of Acrobat. Adobe did not care if we showed them the receipt for it.
Lmao
Try clean reinstall (wipe disk etc) if you can pick up the hardware key
Or a warranty case lol
Also gz for a new lesson learned;)
Should I be honest with my boss and tell him what I did or am I going to get fired? I don’t have enough money to buy the key until Friday.
You don’t need to buy a key from your own pocket.
Just be honest like I said in another reply. Ask for help. I’m sure he’ll help you out and you’ll be fine.
Go with humility first, you screwed up. Follow it up with a joke about how you discovered a flaw in the configuration of work laptops, and now they can fix it to prevent someone else from being able to do that 🤷♂️ I think you’ll be ok
That’s a good suggestion.
Thanks, I thought of something even better. Slap Linux on that thing! Wipe the whole drive on “accident”. Linux is way more innocuous than pirate Windows 🤷♂️