I'd like to say hello to the TheWindowsForum community and to say my thanks for the amazing and reliable releases throughout the years, they've helped me and my friends get through high school with that signature ThumperTM tag in the seven seas. Soon to be graduating and earning money so my time with the seven seas may finally come to an end soon as I've slowly begun to purchase my games, software and recently... Windows 11 thanks to my first owned laptop.
The end of that story, the beginning of an entirely new journey. As must as I loved school ( I left the university kicking and screaming), it's a big world out there with many, many choices. Keep your laptop at your side, no matter what you encounter it will still be there waiting for you. As an admin for a couple of business let me warn you one thing. Don't ever, ever mess with your work system should your job issue you one. I know the temptation will be there, been there done that. It's usually not that hard to defeat whatever was installed on your system to prevent tampering. Just don't, I have seen multiple people fired for just such a thing, not my me, but by my superiors. Keep that in mind.
So Please Remember This:
Don't install anything on your company system without your admin's approval, no wares or games, nothing. I have been called out by our 3rd party security provider for installing a network IP scanner (Advanced IP scanner) and accused of plotting to hack the network. (I was trying to map out the network as I was charged by my boss to do).
Forget anything about gaming on your company's hardware or network. As addicted to some of you get to gaming (I am not thank goodness), it's almost a sure way to get fired for wasting company time and abusing the network. I am 100% serious about this.
Admins love to go through randomly go through browsing history. Surfing pron or too much playing around will get you in deep doo-doo.
Nothing you do on a company network resource is invisible. That goes for your phones and anything else that can pull an IP off of the company network. VPNs do nothing to mask your LAN activity no matter what the destination.
Personally, I bought a 10" 5G tablet and use my carrier for data. The tablet travels very discreetly and can be hidden. I always had a job that had a private office. I don't know what I would do if I was assigned a cubicle (at my last job they called them "Cells").
During the pandemic with everyone working remotely, middle management went nuts since they had virtually nothing left to do. All types of employee’s surveillance programs were developed and are now in place. Management can probably generate a pie chart of how many times you farted vs avg company flatulence last week, no kidding. It gives them something to present during those weekly company meetings so it appears they did something. In this case flatulence occurrence vs weekly production output. It's true middle management, shift leaders, etc. do stupid crap like this and get paid handsomely for doing so.
Just before I was laid off until they saw the price tag, management wanted to be able to visually surveil virtually every nook and cranny of the plant except the rest facilities, with a minimum of a week’s history storage. They used the excuse to cover the company should an injury be faked. I laughed at first and then started designing the infrastructure to support such a thing. They didn’t believe my numbers and called in a contractor. There bid was twice the number that I provided them. I think that’s about as far as it went.
If all this sounds like the CIA, NSA or KGB, well nothing is private anymore, get used to it and act appropriately. It’s 2024 in a post pandemic world.
I really don't mean to preach to you members and friends. I just wanted to give you a perspective from the other side of any new employer you will have.
So good luck Rattle189. ThumperTM is a pretty amazing guy, isn't he. Thanks for letting him know how much you appreciated his work, that doesn't happen nearly enough.