• 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
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    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?”

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        IT: “You’ve been fired. Please return your laptop…”

        “But how do i retrieve all my personal files?”

        IT: [Shrug emoji]

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          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.

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      Just tell them “I don’t want to spend company’s resources for my own private life.”

      The only way is to give them back that guilt and fear they are feeling.

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      it’s one thing if they pay for them but if they are actually company devices that’s fucking weird

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      WTF? What country? Even at jobs where I was given a phone no one felt like ditching their personal devices.

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        I suspect its a millenial thing…

        A few of us old guys keep personal devices… Our young colleages just expect the company to provide devices for them and never have to buy their own

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      I would love to see the look on your friends faces if they ever got caught doing something they shouldn’t have on company property.