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> I take my personal laptop to work with me. For doing anything for the
> company, I use the company laptop that it hardwired to their net. For
> doing anything personal, even something as mild as checking my email,
I
> use my laptop, which has a Sprint wireless modem. So if I connect to
the
> Internet from my personal laptop, that goes through the same structure
as
> my cell phone uses and does not involve company assets in any way. So
even
> if I do accidentally get something nasty installed on my laptop,
there's
> no way to pass it to the company.
Sadly, this does involve company assets. This involves company time.
Companies are usually fairly flexible about this, but it should still be
acknowledged. I am not a manager but I know how they think. From 8 - 5
or whenever, you're on company time. There was a discussion on another
list about this. People wanted to do creative writing -- hopefully on
their lunch hour -- and didn't know how to do this without involving
company assets. The consensus seemed to be to use a USB stick. Okay,
fine. Then a real live manager chimed in, saying that, if you do
anything but your job on company time, then -- technically speaking --
you are stealing from him, and that's called theft. I'm just saying.
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