If I leave Schwab, I have a few personal spreadsheets or documents I’d like to get to my home PC… nothing related to CS. What is the best way to do this without setting off alarms? Or, does this require simply getting permission from the right people? Thanks for helping.
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Take pictures - do not test it. If you’re posting here, you know you’re wrong so WTF were you thinking??
Maybe 8/9 years ago there was a Design Days show and tell. This person took a picture of the gator boards and posted them to LinkedIn and was canned immediately. They didn’t let him take home anything. Facilities packed up his desk and sent his personal belongings to him.
The pictures did not show anything even slightly identifiable, but he was gone. I felt bad for him, but you can’t fix stupid
why on g0ds earth do you have personal info on your work computer - you know nothing is sacred at Schwab
So I followed the advice here and encrypted a bunch of source code files that I want to take home. I sent the encrypted Schwab source files to my gmail, and they never showed up. Now I have a meeting request on Thursday with my manager and someone in HR.
Before layoff you can send as others describe without encryption or NPI. Day of layoff you can only send to your manager for review and forward to your external email (unless that’s changed). I worked there for 33 years so I accumulated some kid photos and other files to my home drive. Nowadays better not to keep on work systems.
Why did you have documents not related to CS on a company computer?
This post sound very suspicious!
Well SCS has a hard time even cracking DES, so I don't know.
Former SCS Schwabbie here who is familiar with the data loss prevention system.
Do NOT encrypt any files or try to password protect them. The DLP system will block the email and notify your Manager of the DLP violation. As long as the docs are truly personal in nature and don't have SSNs, credit card numbers, etc in them they should pass through the DLP filters without a problem. Great example is if you saved your pay stub to a PDF, you can email that to yourself all day long without a problem. Same should apply to other personal docs.
There are a couple of ways you can do this. First method involves generating a symmetrical encryption key. DES3, though old, would be sufficient. Encrypt the file(s) and then send the attachment. If they let it through, you're a-okay. If they ask, just say it is garbage in, and sent garbage out.
Second method involves the cloud.
Connect a USB device and then copy all files you want to and then disconnect it. No one will know.
They scan all outgoing email and attachments. I wouldn't chance this, unless you talk to your leadership and get sign off first.
Unlikely to cause alarms. Schwab is not that organized with exits.
Or also interpreted as source code, company confidential info, etc…
Unless they contain something that could be interpreted as PII (even your own PII), it’s unlikely to trigger anything to email to yourself. That’s at your own risk though. I’m just a stranger on the internet.
This post is suspect….
if it personal why on work PC/system?
Before you put paper talk to support, explain situation let them take decision.