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Originally Posted by flybigjet
Rule #1:
Company stuff goes on the company products (phone, iPad, laptop, etc.)
Personal stuff goes on your personal products (phone, iPad, laptop, etc.)
Pretty much anyone in your IT/HR department can check anything on your company product remotely.
Um, no.
I don't want MegaCorp to know I've had a fight with the wife/girlfriend (or both), am stressed about my M2 parts being delayed, I lost my line of credit at the bank, my cocaine habit's out of control, the cat's taken up gambling, etc.
Keep your work life and your personal life separate. No good can come of things otherwise.
As a case in point:
We had one of our company's pilots called into the Chief Pilot's office because he'd apparently been surfing porn sites on his company iPad. That was bad.
What was worse, was that it was happening at the EXACT time he was in the Chief Pilot's office-- which was sort of a puzzler.
Turns out that his kid had been bogarting his iPad when he was home to watch porn. He had no idea until Company IT/HR caught him.
There's a lesson in there somewhere.....
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We recently had an employee use the company shared drive to store some of his personal data. Because this particular employee is extremely smart and also really dumb, he decided to change the password for the shared drive. (not exactly sure how he had the credentials to do so.) He either entered the password incorrectly initially or simply forgot the password. I don't feel like I need to go into details how well this went over. Let's just say that all of our KPI data for the last 10 years was temporarily lost. IT was able to retrieve all of the lost data, along with way too much personal info on the employee. Said employee is now blocked from the shared drive completely.
To elaborate, we are a over 200 year old Japanese based company, with facilities in the U.S., Japan and Europe. The entire company uses this shared drive. When it became known that the reason none of us could access the drive, then to find out it was an American employee, then to find out it was an employee at our facility......yeah, things turned dark fast.