* Jetbrains

* Stack Overflow

* Job Search sites

I don't remember if Jetbrains needs a password to get to personal licenses, but they definitely do to use their bug database. I suspect they're not the only one.

Letting other people blow off steam can be an act of self-preservation. Insisting that people only ever do 100% work things at work or on work hardware slightly raises your low-but-never-zero chances of being murdered by coworkers. Or less ironically, hilariously intense bridge-burning activities.

Also most of this conversation is happening during work hours so I think we can infer that grandparent is being a little hypocritical.

Let me get this straight… you’re taking privileged company information and transferring it to personal…

I’m now understanding how people get sued when going from company to company.

> personal Trello account for keeping track of my todo list.

> personal Obsidian for keeping meeting notes, and recording conversations as a personal knowledge-base

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure these could subject a lot of your other personal data to potential subpoena should your employer get sued by a sufficiently determined attacker.

Don't cross the streams.

You use so many personal accounts for work that it's unfathomable for me. If some hacker manages to hack into your account and find so much valuable information about your work, your work is going to be mightily pissed about it. Imagine you are working on an upcoming product launch and the attacker used your personal account to leak the launch. Or imagine they just decided to leak your company's internal source code. Or imagine they simply use the technical information in your personal attacks to steal user data (even Cloudflare says they worry about this: "Our aim was to prevent the attacker from using the technical information about the operations of our network as a way to get back in").

You are making your work take on an extraordinary risk in hiring you.

Why don't you just do those on a second, personal, laptop?

Does your workplace restrict you from bringing it in?

This all makes perfect sense - but just seems like your employer is too large to be effective, they're not offering you the right tools/you're not demanding them, and you're in an abusive relationship with them - probably because they pay you well enough.