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What's up with all these ask lemmy posts asking us to self incriminate?
To be fair: if your HR department can link your Lemmy posts to you, they are insanely bored and presumably over funded.
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 ๐.
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.
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 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
My manager actually wants me to host a Minecraft server on company hardware to test our performance monitoring system, aren't I lucky
Now if only I knew how to get players on it who aren't my friends
Could've just run a benchmark or mine monero or something... A Minecraft server is arguably one of the worst ways to test performance
There's a grafana exporter for it, can monitor the JVM
It's not testing the performance of the machine it's testing performance monitoring tools
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.
I was issued a monitor in the early days of COVID when they were sending us home to work. We already had laptops. They had literally pallettes of monitors, people were just grabbing one or two. Tracking was through the honor system, writing name and number taken on a piece of paper.
Now they're having us go back into the office ~3 days a week and want us to return the monitors. Lol, no.
What's the justification for having you back in the office?
New people who don't know wtf they are doing because we don't have structured training and our written documentation is piss poor and we're overall bad at helping them. Some new college grad botched a multi-million dollar program and come to find out, they weren't getting any meaningful mentoring or guidance.
The thought is we will be better at seeing these sorts of gaps earlier if we're having real conversations, not just the routine PowerPoint presentations sanitized to show all is good.
Could a team train and mentor via virtual interaction only? Sure. Can this particular team? Nope.
Any time I'm in the office, I make sure to take a nice long relaxing crap.
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime
That's why I poop on company time
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.
You mean legally when I'm allowed/entitled to? All the time. I max out my benefits.
Based
Why? If I'm allowed, I consider it part of my salary, and would be stupid not to cash it in.
The majority of labor is cucked (unpaid overtime, not using their sick days before they expire, ect).
To be fair, the concept of having a cap for sick days is ridiculous.
Yeah, totally. I lived rural with a poor connection at the time.
Company had a remote server in a data centre for our CRM, website and such as we had people in three locations. total overkill really for what we needed in my opinion and it was 99% idle in the evenings.
So I used it to host half life deathmatch and team fortress back in the day when these were cutting edge. Four to six players each night having fun we couldn't have had otherwise.
This was more of a community service, but when I worked for a university office I ran a TOR node on one of my PCs. After a while though, IT sent someone to ask me kindly not to make it an exit node. Other than that they didn't seem to mind. It was nice having excess bandwidth.
I also ran some distributed computing apps like folding@home.
Fuck off, fed.
Yeah, I'm running my personal NAS on the company's electricity bill ๐.