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• ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sorry those people sound like morons.

  Work pays for everything for me.

  I’m given a top of the line laptop. Im given a credit to buy anything I need to improve my home office. Their tech and purchases are theirs and when I leave, it gets shipped back.

  Using personal equipment at your workplace? Triple yikes. If your company does something illegal, your personal equipment gets confiscated by police. If your company’s network gets infected, your personal info like banking/CC gets stolen too.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Further, I’m pretty sure in the USA at least, you’re at risk of anything you develop on that PC that you also used for work being usurped by the company, claiming proprietary ownership of any code you wrote, because it was technically a work computer, and thus, their code, not yours.

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    • folekaule@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Everywhere I’ve worked it didn’t matter if I used my equipment or theirs. All IP I created while employed there was the property of my employer. If you’re in the USA, check your contracts.

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  • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It doesn’t seem better from the other end too. If I were a boss, I would be uncomfortable with how much unrestricted software from the employee’s life could interact with the company’s. One guy uses a shady build of Windows, and suddenly more than just said guy is affected.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Meanwhile, Teachers have been paying for students school supplies out of pocket for like 20 years because of lack of funding…

  Not to say that this isn’t fucked up and stupid, it is. However, I kind of don’t feel that bad for knowledge workers who are getting paid enough to invest that kind of money in their personal setups to begin with. No offense, but they took that kind of job because of the kind of pay, and if they’re happy to be a capitalist pay pig and be exploited that’s their bag.

  I feel bad for teachers because they actually provide value to society.

  No offense but most of these Fortune 500 companies do more leeching on society than providing value to it.

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  • Teal@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You get a gold star today. ⭐️

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  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The hight of the wage and the value to society are inversely proportional, with a few exceptions. Working for the greater good is seen as its own reward.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Funny how that own reward doesn’t pay the bills. I wonder why our education system is falling apart…

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• jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Our company does not allow you to use your private computer for anything work related because of security. If you want to work from home they buy you a laptop to use. Which really makes sense from a security point of view.

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  • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My employer goes so far as to lock down what devices can connect to our network & VPN, and also locks down laptops so that removable media like USB thumb drives won’t work.

    No way in hell I’d let them do things like that to my personal laptop.

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• OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Worker with a company for developing a solution for a blog generation front end as a wordpress plugin and I was not provided with an ai bot so I had to use claude on my own dime

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  • Buttflapper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wow. Do you at least get to like write it off of your taxes or something?

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    • SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They could but if you work as a salaried employee somewhere it is unlikely you would spend enough individually to exceed standard deduction in a year, so they probably don’t write it off.

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• jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t pay for an AI subscription but I have no problem using my own PC for work on the condition that they give me a VM to remote into. Mainly because I like using my three big monitors and the shitty laptops my previous employers provided are either underpowered or locked down to the point where multi-monitor support is really poor.

  I do pay for tools that I use outside of work and if it’s something that helps me with my day job, I have no problem using it for that. That said, using AI to generate code is usually a waste of time. Unless it’s something really, really basic.

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  • mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I guess I’m lucky, my work laptop works well for multi-monitor support through the docking station and I got myself a triple-display, dual system KVM and it works just fine to switch between my work laptop and my gaming desktop.

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• TacoEvent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If, as an employee, you offer your personal laptop or pay for work expenses out of pocket without asking to get it reimbursed, no functioning company will question it or bother.

  If you need something for work and they won’t give it to you, then you can’t work. It’s as simple as that.

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• ITeeTechMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hate to say it but company data is most definitely on personal computers.

  This is why stuff like adaptive MFA and DLP are a thing. What most people don’t know is if DLP is properly implemented the IT team/department have records of who, when, where, and what device were used to not just access/download data/files.

  The problem is a lot of companies don’t properly implement DLP because it’s not a turn key solution. You need to properly classify your data first and that requires essentially a company wide audit with buy-in from all levels of management. After the classifications you can then implement restrictions and compensating controls.

  Back in the day you could just block USB/network transfer, but if you have data accessible outside of a corporate network you then need to implement conditional access/adaptive MFA where only registered devices are permitted to access certain systems.

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• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mechanics and some plane Techs have always had to provide their own non-specialty tools. For me this included a computer until COVID hit. When we went back from furlough they announced they were allowing us to keep our own devices or use a company provided one. I didn’t like the initial company provided offering but once they started giving out surface pros I took my personal computer home.

  My brother has close to $50K worth of tools and tool boxes. I have probably close to $10K in tools. I have a brother and a sister both who are CDL tractor trailer drivers and they basically had to buy their own rigs. I think there’s subsidies for that but I’d have to ask. Seems like plenty of blue collar workers invest heavily in the tools to do their jobs. It seems reasonable that while collar and tech workers would do the same. Not that they should have to. Just that they would because sometimes even the employer provided specialty tools don’t work for everyone. Just my two cents.

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• fubarx@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve always kept a strict separation between work and personal projects, including a personal laptop, accounts, and yes, paying for AI services. For a while, a few years ago, while commuting on the company shuttle, I even had my own MiFi cell access point and a laptop battery booster so I could work on my own projects on the bus and not be accused of using company resources.

  Most employment contracts spell out that anything you create using company resources is the property of the company. Legally, they own everything that passes though their computers, software, and networks.

  Also, many corporations run system monitoring services on their laptops and MDM mobile data management on mobile phones (for example JAMF on Apple devices). These monitor things like file access, copying, communications, and web access. This data is sent to central servers for processing and looking for anomalies based on pre-set rules. This might sound tin-foily, but it’s mandated by legal in a lot of companies, including small and medium sized ones.

  If you want to use non-company data to do AI work, or develop a service or idea on your own, or even keep your text messages and email private, you’ll want to use your own equipment, accounts, and services.

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• Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A computer like that is useful outside of work. I’d pay for it out of pocket if I had to.

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• _bcron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t work in tech but I’d spend my own dime in a heartbeat on my own hardware and possibly even software if I spent any amount of time doing anything not strictly related to the work I’m performing for the employer. Kinda like how a mechanic is nothing without tools and most maintain their set. I’d want no ambiguity - I was using my stuff to do my stuff and employer has absolutely no say in how I utilize my stuff when I’m utilizing it for purposes unrelated to them, and there can be no claim that they are in any way even tangentially responsible in me doing anything aside from the stuff they are explicitly paying me to do. “We provided them with software and hardware so we feel entitled to some ownership” lol

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• Magister@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wtf? My company just gave me a Dell laptop, i7 13800H, 32GB ram, 1tb nvme, etc

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• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now you know how this has become a fortune company :)

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