why go out for steak when i’ve got hamburger at home?!?!
oh, right, 'cause I don’t got any hamburger at home 
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I used to inadvertently bring pens home in my shirt pocket. When is collected about 100 I brought them all back each time.
Never bothered stealing crap deliberately. I have standards with pens and stationary, so I buy what I like and use that. Just like everything in my home office. I get to decide, why wouldn’t I have what I want?
The amount of mechanical pencils I have is a bit overboard though.
I absolutely spent my own money to buy a mechanical keyboard and a Logitech mouse when my company wouldn’t pony up for them.
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We can pretty much requistion any gear from the available corporate inventory (they bulk buy headphones, chairs, keyboards etc). Decent quality as well (have a backup pair of headphones).
One time when I was taking exams (so eons ago) I mentioned something about printing study notes at home and my grand boss overheard me and went and got a ream of paper and told me to keep it since I’d used my personal printer to print work-related stuff. Was sort of thoughtful, but probably the ink cost more than the paper. But obviously he didn’t happen to have the right ink cartridge handy.
Pens have certainly made it into my personal stash. And when I worked at an exam site, the half-spent notepads for the written answer exams would get tossed on a table for anyone to take home for personal use, so I used to have some of those at home for scratch paper or whatever.
Probably the most questionable thing I ever did was take notebooks for use with my master’s degree classes that the company was paying for. I honestly don’t think they cared, but I’m not sure if it was explicitly allowed or not. They were pretty paternalistic about stuff like that, so it might well have been allowed, but I never asked; I just did it.
Mine is a Das Keyboard, I think it was $150. My last company issued absolute crap, my work laptop was probably a $400 model with poor specs. Current company rule is basically if your manager says it’s reasonable and will approve it, you can buy it. I haven’t asked but decent odds I’d be told $150 for a keyboard isn’t reasonable, even if it does help me type faster. My current company also pays me a lot more than the last one, so I don’t really care if I go out of pocket $150 every ten or so years for a new one.
Hello, ABCD? Have I got a case for you…
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Ha! This was well before my actuarying days.
Well… maybe not well before, but before. I think that’s out of the ABCD’s purview.
We lost the ability to connect out work laptops to anything other than the corporate VPN 4 or 5 years ago.
There was also a general prohibition against WFH employees printing anything at home (freeing us from requirements to have company-blessed locking file cabinets and shredders) introduced around that time…but it’s redundant given the network lockdown.
I’m paperless now, except for when I need to do some algebra on scratch paper.
Yes for me, occasionally I will forward something to my personal e-mail to print at home
We get yelled at if we send anything with an attachment to the usual non-work email addresses.
(I suspect there’s some form of whitelisting to communicate with consultants and small brokers who only have Gmail addresses.)
who would know that? Someone track your e-mails?
Some filings require me to sign my name in blue ink. So I print the form, sign it, scan it.
Sometimes my laptop won’t push things to the printer, so I send it to my other e-mail account, walk to the next room, print it, sign it, scan it. Nothing confidential or PPI.
Security programs that scan anything leaving the secure email network would catch the attachment.
I can send attachments to my gmail from my work email but they have to be non-confidential.
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ok, I was thinking only non-confidential stuff.
Occasionally I need paper to proof read and physically mark up
I have had to sign and scan
Marking your territory? Or is a word missing?
If this happened pre-ACAS - like, well before ACAS - is it ABCDable?
Asking for a potential client, BTW.
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That’s a nice way to get reamed out at work
i work at a big company. a colleague was talking w compliance/legal one day about a vendor contract. something came up about people leaving and the legal person said “just make sure that when you someday leave here, you don’t print or email all kinds of shit to yourself.” they can see everything you send over the copmay system
One word too many. Rearranged my dangling participle, IYKWIM