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According to the security experts in this Wirecutter article, you should assume that yes, you are indeed being monitored on your work laptop. However, they contend that for most of us, the fear of being heavily surveilled at work is unwarranted.
In an act of radical transparency, I want to disclose the fact that I checked Twitter approximately forty times in the time it took me to research and write this article. Yes, on my work-issued laptop. The irony does, indeed, escape me at times.
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Recently, a person in another division asked to meet with me and my boss to help with a part of a project we are all working on. I have never met this person before, but was glad to help. She set the time and location (a conference room in her department) and sent out a meeting request after confirming with us. About an hour before the meeting, she had to cancel due to an emergency and emailed both of us. I told her it was no problem to reschedule, and went about my work. About an hour later, I get an email from my boss wanting to know if I was coming to the meeting. I told him he must not have received the email, but she cancelled the meeting. He replied that she cancelled the meeting, but he did not. I was his employee and he wanted to meet to discuss the project.
Did I do something wrong? It was such a focused meeting that she requested, and she told both of us she needed to reschedule. I could see if he sent an email saying that since we are both free, could we still meet, but I heard nothing from him.
Several of our departments deal with government entities that have disabled USB and refuse to accept electronic transfers. The easier to deal with will at least send you government-furnished equipment to send things to them; the more difficult will simply shoot down everything you offer until some poor admin is burning 12 CDs/DVDs for them.
Often you can access your Netflix account on the TV in your room at the hotel. We have done this many times when on long family related trips. Of course you are careful to delete your log in from the hotel system before you check out so the next person in the room etc etc is not able to use your sign in. but it is very common for hotel TV systems to let you access your own streaming service like this.
It is a fair point that it depends on the lawyer, but it is an objectively true observation that genuinely ridiculous lawsuits get filed, with a lawyer representing the plaintiff. In some cases the lawyer seems to simply be incompetent, but this does not explain all of them.
Could stupid boss get a lawyer to file a lawsuit? Probably. There are plenty of lawyers out there who will file any stupid thing for a fee, Rule 11 be damned. And a lawsuit, even a frivolous one that should be dismissed in one reply before discovery, can cost money to defend. But it also costs money to file, and I suspect that hot-headed boss will lose interest fast when told what it would cost to file a lawsuit that will go absolutely nowhere.
People do all sorts of dumb things. The question is whether, after all the bloviating, the boss has the fortitude to sit down and actually draft a complaint and file it (and pay a filing fee). Seems unlikely.
Though I write contracts for my company, I am not a lawyer and have to bring in one of our attorneys in certain situations. It is my greatest delight at work when a contractor is being stupid and I get to sit on the call listening while our attorney explains exactly how stupid they are being!
Dime a dozen, that story in contracting and associated industry, sadly. My first job story ends with the company going belly up though, not sold out. Partly with costs due to petty and stupid litigation.
As far as Home Depot, he just would never reimburse you from there. When he eventually ran up his credit at the local electrical supply shop it got a bit difficult anyway. If I knew then what I knew now, he would have gotten into serious trouble with the state of Tennessee (we did work there despite not having a license to do so).
Right? One of the new managers at my company totally poached 2 employees to start a new division at my company. The company they all left was pretty passed at losing 3 people, but as my coworker said about his old company: do better.
The networking engineers had over 100% turnover in their group. Most of them had certs from Famous Networking Company (one had a very advanced one). FNC was local and very much hiring. Almost everyone who left got a position there. Some are still there many years later.
omg that reminds me of those crazy videos in Russia of cars being stopped in traffic and a person will just walk up to the car and casually roll themselves across the hood and then sue saying the car hit them. Hence why almost everyone with a car has a dash cam there.
The likely scenario for that car accident suit is that the other driver lied to their lawyer. Personal injury lawyers nearly always work on a contingency fee basis, and so have no incentive to take on a case like this. Quite the opposite. But they take the case based on what the potential client tells them. It may be quite late in the process before they realize they were lied to, and firing a client is non-trivial.
There is no universal solution though: unreasonable bosses will be unreasonable, and there is a process of trial and error in figuring out what levels of unreasonable and whether anyone can deal with that.
The only solution that works for all cases is something you decide to do for yourself, which is either to get a different job or to resign yourself to the situation. The only thing you can control is your own actions. If your highest priority is to not to report to an unreasonable person (which is a very reasonable priority by the way), you leave.
What is he like normally? Does he tend to be reasonable or passive aggressive? Do you have a good relationship? If yes, is it actually good or good because you tiptoe around him? All of this would be helpful to know.
The problem is that the boss WANTS the vague suggestion because apparently being direct is offensive. I hate making things less clear and would probably put that in my list of reasons to look elsewhere.
I worked for a boss who was her own breed of absolutely insane micromanager. I had to perfect the art of malicious compliance, staying one step ahead, and perfecting my deadpan tone of voice and no fascia expression when talking to her. It was brutal hell and being laid off was the most glorious thing that could have ever happened to me.
I would look at the question as more of a question about why you left your last company with no other role to go to. What the recruiter (and by extension, the hiring manager) is worried about was whether you were fired.
(I mean, it may even be true that the family has made their own choice for their own reasons about whose career takes precedence at a given stage in their lives, but no employer enjoys hearing that they are not your top priority.)
I had to do a cross country move on short notice once with a toddler. Yes, it took me several months to get everything settled and try looking for a job. My answer was that I had moved across country, and some of the logistics of that took more time to finish settling than expected. I never had anybody blink at that explanation.
Sounds like you have a good head on your shoulders. Can you maybe just forward the complaints you get straight to the manager? Or direct the complainers directly to that manager to remove yourself from the awkwardness?
The meeting was scheduled in a conference room by the original organizer. Once the meeting is cancelled, the room is no longer booked and therefore it would have been picked up and used by a different meeting.
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When you want to do something that is not standard business operations, it is always good to ask first. Depending on how your work laptops are configured, streaming could be an issue. More specifically, _everyone_ streaming could be an issue, but IT might be fine with allowing an exception for you while traveling. That might even do something as simple as suggesting giving you a different device configured differently to take with you while traveling. (For example, if all the laptops are on a shared VPN that would be impacted by streaming, they might provide you with a cheaper off-VPN wifi-only iPad that you could use for streaming but would not be allowed on the business network.)
I have an HP laptop and the netflix app is saying that it is currently unavailable to me. It worked yesterday and for weeks before thar and I don't understand what the issue is. I tried to uninstall the app (which was already installed when I first purchased this computer) and it wouldn't. It stated that I go to the store but when I get there I have no options related to fixing the problem. I just need some suggestions on what I should do.
Everything else works fine, and without issue, only Netflix giving him grief. I tested on my laptop on the WiFi -- no dice. The site loads, but none of the images do, and sometimes you can get a video to start, but it always craps out pretty quickly.
I hooked up wired to his Orbi -- same thing. I hooked up straight to his modem, and it worked fine, everything loaded as expected. What's even weirder though, is I tried DMZ'ing one of his Fire sticks, and it still doesn't work. The "Armor" or whatever it's called security is disabled. I tried several different DNS options, but none of them made a difference going through the router.
Guest network is diabled, checking the access control and all devices are set to allowed. uPnP is on, and again, literally everything else internet related works fine. (Firesticks stream other video just fine, PS4's work and can play online, Websites load normally, etc.)
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