Unfortunately I had some personal files on my laptop that are now lost as my system got switched off right away. I had copied over to a drive but since it was connected to the laptop when it shut down, the drive got encrypted as well.
Anyone knows if Oracle will be kind enough to give me a chance to recover my data? This su-ks more than being laid off honestly.
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@j9 Not everyone who works at O is an "IT Professional". A lot of people run their lives off their phones, as bizarre as that sounds.
Still, you can buy a pretty decent Windoze laptop for $600, a lot less than what the iPhone costs.
Why did you have personal files in your overlord's computer? I can't believe the number of laid off employees posting they lost access to their files, or that they don't have a personal computer, and are now applying for jobs on their phones, wtf. IT professionals who don't own computers. We are doomed.
I called HR and was told IT has told them they won't help anyone with this. Just no desire to help or understand anyone. Cannot believe how mean they are :(
From the FAQ sent to managers
“Q: What if the employee requests extended access to their work laptop or files for work continuity or to collect personal items?
A: No exceptions are made to standard access removal procedures. Use the Legal Request Tool, detailed in the communication guidelines, if company data transfer is needed for business continuity.”
Unless you can show business continuity, you have no chance of getting anything. Even with that, you’re probably hopeless for personal files.
Top management of these companies have become so mean and greedy that they have stopped thinking like human. They have become money making robots
@b0 having the key won't help if they are indeed doing a remote wipe
@ag I shut my laptop down before it bricked. Just for kicks I booted it the other day and it worked. No access to anything behind the firewall, of course. I shut it down again. Will be sending it back when the boxes arrive.
Unless you happen to have the Bitlocker recovery key, you're SOL.
Same situation here. Unable to recover anything. If you get positive response from anywhere, please do post
First thing I did after 'the call' was disconnect the work laptop from all network connections. I'll copy my personal files over before it ships back with a few holes drilled through the hard drive.
You could ASK, but the whole point of wiping the computer is to wipe the computer and everything on it. My manager warned me when we had The Talk that I should remove any personal files from the computer because it would be shortly wiped. Only things I would have saved are the power points from some of the security training - anything personal on that computer was also on my personal, so wipe away. And they did. I was in the middle of an email to my call center's chat group when it froze, then rebooted into recovery mode. Gone.
Just set your expectations that everything is gone and IT can't/won't recover it. But please do ask. Only way to know for sure.
@a9 You're both wrong and a fool for having personal data on a work laptop I'm afraid. Just feel lucky there were no incidents where they would have taken it under legal hold.
@a8 when a person might have been there for years and perhaps traveling, there is a much greater likelihood of having a few personal files and folders on the office computer. One does not carry 2 computers everywhere and usually one is tired at the end of the day.
By now it should have been clear to most people that one should not keep personal files on a company computer, oh well
Contact IT or ask a colleague still there to contact them and ask.
I would not expect much though.