nodelessness

I am working for a publicly traded company. I have been spending the past 9 months alone in my apartment in Europe and it's driving me crazy. Having been recently separated has aggravated the effects.

I am hoping to work from a SEA country for 2.5 months. My employer is publicly traded.

I have already asked my manager about it and while he himself is unconcerned, the HR Policy is that they are not able to allow more than two weeks of work from another country. Any more will entail that I go on vacation, unpaid leave or be terminated.

I am hoping to avoid the latter scenarios entirely. I have to do what I have to do to take care of my mental health. And my management and company has to do what they have to do to keep their hands clear of legal liability.

I am working out how I can work in another country

I have a Macbook Pro 15'' 2016 model. I have an USB-c extension port set that has a

Let's set aside the whole question around my visa in this new country. A friend of mine recently worked outside of a European country for couple of months and has already received an email from his employer's legal department. I am inclined to think this is a reality of working for a publicly traded company.

I am looking for a technical solution to create no record of the corporate VPN seeing that I am in the SEA country. How do I do that?

This is what I have so far:

I will use Wifi to connect a Windows mini-PC to whatever WiFi I have access to. I will then use that Wifi to tunnel my internet to the European country I live in. I will share the tunnelled internet via Ethernet and connect the Macbook Pro to that Ethernet and let the corporate tunnel through my tunneled internet. I will turn off WiFi entirely and make sure to never turn it on lest they discover ambient SSIDs and discover my location.

Is this approach fool proof? Do you have a better idea?

How do you convince the business that there is a good case for refactoring and convince them that there is value in doing so? It seems like every single place I go to, business priorities are always urgent and there is almost never any push being done to refactor code. Have you managed to get buy-in if so, how?

I joined a major international brand almost a year ago. I was relocated to this country and this company from another country.

When I was interviewing with the company I did research online for what the average salary for someone in my role in this country and city is. And I asked for a bit more than that. At the time I really needed to emigrate from my country and therefore I was willing to take almost anything I was able to get. I asked for €XX,000 they gave me €XX,000 - €200

After almost a year, now I found out that the pay grade in this specific company is MUCH higher than in most businesses in the area. I am not facing much of a problem in terms of comfortable living but I found out that I am paid as much or less than grads fresh out of college. It stings every time I walk into the office with that knowledge but it is what it is.

Now I don't want to walk into the situation all emotional. I don't see why the company would offer me €XX,000+€10,000 when I asked for €xx,000. But I do want to resolve this situation and bring myself on par with peers with my level of experience and seniority in the industry.

In the past I have learnt that it is best to ask for a raise just before the regular cycle of performance appraisals - the company can sneak in my raise and not appear like they are budging to someone who asks for a raise and open up a trend with other employees. But that is almost 8 months from now.

Or am I mistaken and I should just ask right away? What's the right way to approach this?

Is there a website where you can search all of them in one place?