I'm retiring at the end of November and I have a number of photos and old PR's, etc. that I'd like to pull off my laptop. Any suggestions on how I go about doing that?
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Log into Gmail. Open me emails and add attachments. Do NOT send.
Go to a personal PC, log into Gmail. Attachments will be in drafts folder.
I downloaded the plans to the engine that runs on water before I retired!
I sold it to big oil the other day and took the proceeds to Chick-fil-A for a combo meal.
Post below nailed it. Stop storing personal stuff on a ford owned laptop. If it’s on a ford laptop, it belongs to ford, not you
Be honest and upfront with your supervisor, there is an IT page to select USB access, type in “download a few personal files prior to retirement”. You will instantly be granted 7 days access to copy to USB. Your supervisor and manager get notice and need to approve.
Don’t be stupid because they monitor what you download and how much.
Good luck and congrats on retirement!
It is ridiculous that anyone would keep anything personal on their work computer and/or use their work cell phone as personal. There should have been signs to keep everything separate 10 years ago.
Just email whatever you need to your personal email (assuming you have one).
@OP. First of all, congrats on achieving retirement at Ford (something not easy these days) and jumping ship after a long career. IDK how good your IT skills are, but there are a few options to unload the personal files from the work laptop.
In general, all the ways to extract the info are using the network while disconnected from the enterprise VPN. There are sharing and uploading websites, web email (as stated in a previous comment) or accessing the storage from Google/Apple, or creating a personal storage space (NAS, FTP, network folder, etc.) in your home. You choose what is more comfortable for you.
Now, I'd advise you of not taking anything from the company, not even files you created or worked on during your time at FMC. If you are retiring, you won't need any company info in the future. If you are instead moving to a competitor, don't even bother since Ford cr@p doesn't translate well into other companies, and if you are moving outside automotive, even less chances of using the Ford cr@p. If you do take company info, no matter how insignificant it seems, you are opening yourself to a lawsuit. It is not worthy.
Instead of taking the Outlook offline Address Book with you to keep in touch with your soon to be ex coworkers, ask them for their personal info and distribute your contact info. Make sure you get all the public contact info for the NESC (you are going to need it) and update your profile in there with your personal email/phone number (make sure to test the login before retirement).
I am sure I am forgetting something, but it is a little bit late and I am tired. Please check in another threads at the layoffs for more info, especially what I am missing. That's it! Good luck!
Typically the USB ports are locked on company issued laptops - however you can search online for a USB jumper that would unlock the port to get the files from. The USB jumper connects the USB port (any) to another USB port (any) and would unlock the remaining open USB port. If you only have 2 USB ports, you can get an intermediate jumper that would go from the USB to the SD card slot or ethernet port, but this method is not guaranteed to work as it's best done with computers with 2 USB ports.
Memory stick. Right click, cut, paste...
Maybe find a co-op student to help
I still don't understand why anyone would keep personal sh-t on their company issued laptop. It's such a lazy thing to do, a real boomer move, and just opens you up to needless repercussions....like one of those progressive commercials where you turn into your parents...hey...that's a good one for the next commercial...ranks right up there with where they try to teach them how to open a PDF. Not sorry if this sounds mean spirited....set yourself up for it...stop treating the laptops like they are yours...
Put them in a zip file and email them to yourself - don’t include anything that has security classification