Thread regarding Open Text Corp. layoffs

For important documents that can only be accessed through the corporate VPN, like performance reviews, salary change notices, and policy docs you might need later, get into the habit of storing a copy elsewhere immediately when you retrieve it. Don't accumulate that stuff on your laptop and figure you'll get it later; your laptop access could disappear at any moment. And if you've been getting your payroll records, ESPP docs, etc through your laptop because you followed links in your company email to get them, change the email address where possible and save the docs externally for everything else. It's very easy to keep this stuff on your laptop without thinking about it, and that's a bad idea.

Mark me as aonther person who can't believe any of you are storing personal files on your laptop. If you mean "work you did for OT" it's not personal and it's not yours. If you mean "personal pictures, financial documents, my payroll information" you need to learn this lesson now before you go somewhere else and make the same mistakes: none of this goes on yoru latpop. Because it is not "your" laptop. Also, your healthcare, retirement, etc accounts all need to be switched to your personal email address IMMEDIATELY upon signing up. Because there is every reason to keep that out of the corporate email assigned to you and in your own email box.

Save all personal files on an external hard drive so you don’t need to worry.

@ar I can't remember the number of times the network storage was deleted because we got bought out. Safest place ended being on the laptop.

@ar But then you have a very tight window to delete it before access is removed. Best to keep it local. F OT.

@a4 Anyone with a lick of common sense would have put all that useful stuff on a network location for everyone.

I read a story on WIRED months ago about creating a "go bag" on a USB key. I've got everything I want to keep securely saved already; it's not a bad idea in this climate of "AI is the answer."

@OP
Sorry, that it happened to you and all the best in finding something new.

However, I am always stunned how people think that anything on a company provided laptop is considered personal or private. First of all nothing is per definition private on these systems. Your contract defines it that way already. And second, these computers are contaminated with privacy-invading-software. Everything you do is monitored and logged somewhere. Nothing stays private on them.

Let that be a life lesson for you. Never, ever use company systems for anything personal. EVER

Before I left, I spent three months putting together documentation, training material, and videos that provided detailed information for whomever would be taking over my role(s). After leaving, I found out that they wiped my hard drive within a couple of days of my departure, and most of what I left behind was lost forever.

This was typical of OT: rules, procedures, and bureaucracy up the wazoo, and not a lick of common sense. I had some stuff in their internal doc repository, but all the rest was destroyed.