Like hosted a website or a server for your personal needs, or taken a smartphone given to you for work or something like that.
I’m allowed to use my company’s laptop for private purposes as long as it doesn’t have negative impact on work (like installing mallicious or unlicensed software). I don’t use that priviledge a lot but I store some private backups on the company’s OneDrive.
a long time ago I worked at an event production company, we bought a plastic card (think credit cards) full color printer to print client logos on NFC cards, and I had to test them, so I printed McLovin’s driver licence on a card, and I still keep it on my wallet.
My company has never touched my work laptop, it was shipped directly from Apple. But then we’re a small start-up.
Same, I use it as my personal device too. I’m not even sure that I should send the pc back at all, probably yes
Apple can preconfigure a machine with any software a company requests at the factory
Nice try boss
When I need to run multiple vms, work laptop is much stronger than personal laptop and there is usually no personal data related so sure. I’ve also used the only (work) iPhone I have for Apple related things, like using apple books, which is admittedly stupid but I consider anything I get from there single use either way and not particularly private either.
No, I’m not stupid. Also technically everything you create on company time and/or company resources no longer belongs to you.
I did have a boss once (software development) who hosted his own website on the company servers. Not 100% sure if that was ever green lit by the CEO (maybe, maybe not). But I was really annoyed when the server had issues due to that private site, when I didn’t have access to the code to fix them.
Fuck off, fed.
Yeah it’s written like an email from HR
No! I used to worked at Hooli and I was developing this awesome compression algorithm in my free time. However I always used my own laptop. Except maybe one day when in was in the shop for repairs, but I barely did anything that day, I think. Shouldn’t be a problem.
Oh no
Oh, your girlfriend shit the bed?
Yeah, I’m running my personal NAS on the company’s electricity bill 😁.
I worked at a car dealership that put out very nice, fresh muffins for the customers. I was a drug addict at the time and wasn’t spending money on food so that’s where I ate
Printing/scanning on the company printer. Was careful at a corporate job as I suspected they might monitor what I send to the printer or what the printer scans, so I was low-key with that
The company’s PCs were running XP, but had Windows 7 Pro license stickers on their back. I wrote down a few license codes for using them at home. One of those is now my Windows 11 Pro license.
I was working in my (poor third world) government job, and our keyboard broke. Replacements took months, since they only bought mouse and keyboards in bulk once per year or so, and they ran out of.
I had a second job working as a contractor for a private company, where we were contracted for a public hospital providing system administration and technical support. We had some old PS2 keyboards that were to be decommissioned, but since they didn’t have inventory number, I got hold of them and brought some to my other job.
So I donated some equipment from one area of government to another, but it was kinda illegal, lol 😆.
In 1999 when the entire town was on dialup, I set up this relatively small PC with FreeBSD 3.3 and eggdrop, and hid it in the school library. That way I had an IRC bot that worked while I was offline. After a while I also set it up to automatically grab files from FTP servers for me, but getting these out from the “server” offline was tricky due to 1.44MB floppies being the only removable storage I had available.
Back then internet carried dialup charges per minute for me, so this was a huge time and money saver.
