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[–] [email protected] 110 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)
  • To: boss email
  • From: your work email
  • BCC: your personal email

Hey Boss

So as discussed earlier, you're accepting my recommendation that we NOT do _____ due to the high risk of _____, correct?

Thanks in advance for helping to clarify this!

- yourname

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Don’t bcc your personal email, the internal mail servers can see everything even if the recipients don’t. Better to just screencap when possible.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Weekly/monthly dump of the inbox to a personal cloud storage for later archiving

Except don’t do this if your company tells you not to(which they most likely have) as it will actually screw you over pretty badly. Unless you’ve got hard proof of illegality going on, don’t piss off your employer by being paranoid.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So what if they know you have it?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The two things I can think of are the company may try to tag you for inappropriately handling what they consider confidential information -- and if something goes to court and the email ends up in the discovery process, opposing council may be allowed access to your entire personal email account.

It's probably better to copy everything as an attachment to a dedicated portable drive so it's less likely to be called out by the company, and if it ends up it court you only need to release the information on that drive.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

It’s probably better to copy everything as an attachment to a dedicated portable drive

This would get you fired from some jobs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Most companies have software to identify what you’ve copied to an external drive as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Copying to an external drive would be way worse than using your own email. With the email you can prove that that was the only data you moved to outside the company. With an external drive they'd argue that it might be a habit, question what else you moved and sue the fuck out of you for breach of contract + violations of NDAs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

The boss can't see it unless he asks a tech for it. The techs usually don't care.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

After months of no replies, you are fired for "lack of initiative".

Unless you went ahead and did it, and then you get fired for "too much initiative".

You have to find just the right amount of initiative.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

My DEX modfier is +2 and get another +2 from being a bard, is +4 too high?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

If it made the boss feel inadequate, then yes - dial that shit back, maybe pretend to attempt to roll but then trip (while actually aiming to just trip), roll for constitution to avoid damage. Taking ego damage is unavoidable in that case, except getting to keep the job more than balances it out:-).

And congratulations - you just leveled up! Now you get to do 1.1x your previous workload, for 1.00x your previous pay.:-( Although when all your friends at work get let go, you get to stay.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Make sure you don't roll too high or too low.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

if your relationship with your boss is this toxic, you should be writing a resignation email instead.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I quit my last job without notice because I had one lined up (but it turned out I couldn't start immediately) and in retrospect my rent situation would have been a lot better if I'd just scrupulously covered my ass for a month. And I'm lucky enough to have the kind of job where people call back within 12h of me submitting a resume but that's exactly because I do the kind of 100% essential jobs that have a coinflip's worth of shitty bosses and the kind of pay that leaves you paycheck to paycheck if you've had bad enough luck and/or life choices in a particular year. I guess I could've just called places and got some temp work from the first employer to offer but then I'm still having to cover my ass but now against the devil I don't know while learning a whole new set of policies that I'm only gonna use for one month before I'm learning the next ones. If you're in a secure enough position in your life that you can just quit because you have a good enough balance of savings and demand for your skillset then please take a moment today and practice gratitude to whatever entity or lack thereof that you attribute your good fortune to.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

This goes so hard