Don’t use company computers for personal stuff, it all gets logged and can be used against you at the very least as evidence that you weren’t working come performance reviews.
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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It's fucking insane people don't know this in 2023.
Work computers are for work, and pretty much every employer monitors what you do on it.
I occasionally click on the little wether icon and see what the forecast looks like. Hope I don't get fired!
At my old job we had to research customers which frequently involved looking on Facebook and other sites. I was very intentionally not logged in, which probably wouldn't work now, and kept any and all searches to items that I could prove were related to a work item. It's insane that people don't follow that advice.
Things like weather will be fine unless you have an unreasonable boss/job.
But people should only use work computers the way they would if they knew the entire company was watching a live stream of their desktop.
Even for working from home, I put my work laptop on the isolated guest wifi because I don't trust them the same way they don't trust me.
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And the same goes for company wifi if you have to log in with your own username.
Even if you don't, there's plenty of different ways to identify a user on company wifi.
For example, have your cellphone named "Stephano's iPhone"? Narrows it down to the Stephanos working in range of that access point.
Not if my name's not Stephano and I'm secretly trying to get Stephano fired because he insists on microwaving fish and popcorn every single day and stinks up the office.
EVERY SINGLE DAY YOU EAT FISH AND POPCORN STEPHANO? EVERY DAY?
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Browsing personal sites, especially social media, on a work computer is insane
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Just don't use a work computer for anything but work. Use your personal cell phone and don't use their wifi.
It constantly surprises me how many people use their work computers as as if it was a personal computer. They've got family pictures, shopping, browsing, socials, everything. I've tried mentioning before, in a roundabout way, but people really don't care. And then when they get laid off or quit then they're shocked as hell once the computer's remotely locked and wiped and then they make a big stink about how all of their stuff was on there. It's like what did you expect to happen.
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Stay off company resources when using technology for personal use.
Underrated comment right here...
Yall got phones jfc
Why would people not just use their phones? I would never browse any social media on a work computer.
I had a lady in the marketing department open a ticket with us many years ago when ILoveYou was running rampant and we had blocked yahoo mail, gmail, etc on our corporate network and she was PISSED because "I need to access that for my other job!". Yes, she put that in the ticket. That was a brief discussion with her manager and a resume generating event for her.
The real lesson here is it's absolutely OK to lie to your employers especially if you need to work 2 jobs to stay afloat.
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"Resume generating event" - that took me a moment, but then I laughed
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I use my own Internet for my phone. No point messing with work Internet unless necessary.
Right? I dont want the nerds at IT to find out where I get all my free porn.
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Exactly. Use the work equipment for work purposes and there is no issue.
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Why do people use work computers anymore when cellphones exist?
I've worked a job that required using an app on my phone, and in order to install that app I had to give ROOT ACCESS and full remote control to the IT department and was subject to the same monitoring as when using a company desk or laptop. I just grabbed an older phone I had lying around and used that for work because I wasn't about to give complete remote access to the phone I actually used every day.
Why did the company not supply the phone to be used for company purposes?
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Fuck that. Our company gives us phones because they know they're secure. And we don't use them for anything but work related apps. I still make all my phone calls from my personal or office phone
I say, "We," but that's not entirely true. There are a couple of jackasses that do everything on them, but I assume the company can see it of they want to. So, fuck that
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Pro tip: Don't do not-work stuff on work owned hardware.
Or while connected to work networks
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Rough day at work today, OP...?
Never attach a personal device to a company network!!!
Why in the heck would anyone browse any social media on your company machine?
That's the whole reason I left Reddit because it forced me to have to use Reddit on a computer and it's one of the first things I remind new hires not to use social media on company property, it's always monitored from keyboard to Internet connection.
Good lord people...
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I imagine the socialist/ML and pro-union content also plays into this (speaking as a socialist/ML and extremely pro-union, mind you). Corporations hate and are terrified of any sort of dissidence that threatens their profits and will absolutely police your activity on it. Weirdly enough Western "freedom of speech" doesn't seem to extend to this kind of stuff in practice, can't imagine why.
More likely op being a dumbass and using work resources to fuck around on the clock.
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On phone, use LTE. On computer set up a cheap Linux shell on your vsp of choice. Then use an ssh socks proxy for your browser.
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TL;DR: Keep browsing to your local instance at work for now.
YSK even the local tab on any instance will load many transcluded images from other instances.
if you're worried about your employer monitoring for suspicious hostnames, you're rolling the dice every time you do any personal web browsing (outside of sites that don't transclude 3rd party images, like wikipedia, and, ironically, facebook...).
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The other day I was on all and there was fucking porn without any NSFW filter on it on some cumsluts community, no co-workers were around thankfully but it was a good wake up call that all is not a place you wanna be unless you are at home.
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The wifi at my work won't let me browse Lemmy at all. I have to enable a VPN on my phone to browse, or go to mobile data.
This is what you should be doing on all corporate networks. What personal sites you go to is none of their business.
Alternatively, don't use their network and use your cell connection, but for some people, that's not gonna work, I know.
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I'm glad my work doesn't care what I do online as long as I get my shit done. It's not the highest paying job in the world, but perks like that keep me there.
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Well, you should be using a VPN for privacy anyway, so that wouldn't be a problem.
Do you guys not have phones?
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While VPNs aren't perfect, vpn and DNS over HTTPS will help you avoid this.
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