Comment by dspillett
15 hours ago
My company have accidentally forced this on me, and it is great.
I used to have a desktop that I could VPN+RDC into from my personal laptop or desktop to work away from the office¹. I've now got a laptop, that refuses to let me authenticate remotely and they have no interest in fixing that as there are other priorities, so I simply can't work if I don't have that laptop with me and I'm not carting it around when I'm already carting my own around (and if I'm not carrying my own, it is because it isn't a suitable situation to be bringing any laptop).
Not a workaholic, I don't think, but a 24/7 stress monkey when I think that I could be helping. Simply not being able to work away from the office actually helps with that: if there is literally nothing I can do, especially given it is work that has made that impossible, I don't stress the same way.
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[1] other than the VPN connector and the MFA doo-hicky on an old² phone, nothing work related, even Teams, even email, ever touches my personal devices
[2] a small old thing, factory reset with a dummy google account and just the MFA apps installed
> Not a workaholic, I don't think, but a 24/7 stress monkey when I think that I could be helping
I er... think you might be a workaholic.
But I'm glad for you that your current setup is helping :)
Does it count as being a workaholic when work is just one place it manifests? I class it more “being-useful-aholic”!
I now want to seek an on site role and request a desktop computer.