First off - the big theme is absolutely true: don’t use work resources for personal things. Don’t use a work laptop for *anything* personal. Don’t log into your personal email, don’t log into Facebook, nothing. Similarly, don’t use your work cell phone for personal things. Same things, same reasons. Basically, keep…

As a former Sysadmin:
1) Assume that anything you do on your work computer can (or is) monitored
2) As long as you don’t do anything stupid that could compromise the network or system security, we frankly don’t care what you do.
3) Maintain a personal laptop for your personal stuff. Never, EVER leave confidential…

As I heard at the time, having any porn on a work PC is a potential “Hostile Workplace” and thus a potential sexual harassment lawsuit. Nobody gave a damn what the guy was doing in his office but the potential financial liability ended a VP’s six figure+ job. Pretty stupid decision on his part.

As an IT Security engineer... Number one, yes we are absolutely logging everything we can about how you use your corporate systems. Number two, none of us want to have to look in to any of that data.

Get a nice phone with an unlimited data plan and use that to fart around on the internet on company time. Just don’t connect to the company WiFi.

The number one commandment of work computers is Thou Shalt Not Watch Porn on a work PC. This should just be common sense, but I have twice now seen senior executives get summarily shit-canned for looking at porn on a company PC.

This is a pretty good list, but I’d add:

Embarrassed to admit, but if I'm channel surfing I will stop and watch Overboard for the zillionth time. Yes did not age well, but Kurt is hot and Goldie is at her best in this film. 

Seven years is the generally accepted lifespan of a CO detector. Many of them have expiration dates on them. Some have lithium batteries that last about 7 years and cannot be changed, making them disposable at end-of-life. Regular smoke detectors should also be replaced every 7 years. 

each time I see an “article” that is a lazy repost of another site, with no meaningful insight whatsoever on Lifehacker, I can tell it’s coming from the same writer. Site should not be called Lifehacker anymore, it should be called LifeObvious

There’s a character named Père La Chaise? “La Chaise” means “The Chair”. Clearly it should have been played by Chairy from Pee-wee’s Playhouse, not William Hurt!

[Frank Herbert raises hand from the grave]

That Bingbing’s facial features have been digitally Westernized is a whole other conversation.

Safari is less taxing on your battery, and uses fewer system resources than Chrome while maintaining comparable speed in bench tests. I like Firefox for security features, but it is slower and still not all that great on resources and battery life. There’s Edge, Opera, and Vivaldi, but they all have their quirks and…

Did a stint freelancing for Subway deploying new POS units, and FFS, that was absolutely the SHITTIEST call-center I’ve ever had to deal with. The CSR’s were absolutely incompetent; I was getting a flat $100 / unit, with an assumed ETA of ~2 hours...75% of the jobs took 12 - 14 hours, because the sorry-ass CSR’s kept…

Sadly, real customer service from anything but the smallest of businesses is dead at this point, and it doesn’t much matter if you can reach a human being or not because the human beings who are left are forced to read from scripts and not to use any actual human traits like empathy or common sense.

Oh look. An Apple contrarian. How unique. 

If you really want something, beeeeeeeee nice!

For a major call center, asking for a supervisor is no guarantee you’ll get someone quickly or that will help you. I’ve heard of the “hand the phone/transfer the call to the person sitting next to you”, but unless it’s a tiny operation that just doesn’t happen.

Yeah, I’ve had to make a number of calls recently where pressing zero or saying “agent” gave me a “that was not a valid choice” warning, and when I did it again, I got a “goodbye” before the call was terminated.