That's it, I give up on this office tracking thing. As a recap, the office made a system that tracks attendance based on your computer connecting to WiFi. The issue is I have three office assigned computers and the system assumes you have one. You may already imagine how this can cause problems.
For some projects, I must bring two computers to the office to work. Neither is the computer that is tracked...
...I also bring my own laptop to work because the office prohibits the development of native code on an office assigned machine. That's right, I'm a Software Engineer who isn't allowed to create software on work assigned equipment.
That's a fourth computer that is involved in me doing my job. I could be using up to three computers at once to work on tasks. That's too much.
I've already talked to HR and have demonstrated to them how the tracking fails. I've talked to a higher exec about it too. Rather than bring a total of 4 computers to work, I'm going to bring what I need to do my job on a particular day. I'm also going to make myself seen so that there are witnesses to my presence in the office.
In the next 30-days, the office tracking is going to show I haven't been here at all. That will trigger an inquiry.
#Office #RTO #ReturnToOffice#Work
When that happens, they will reach out to my manager. He is already informed that office tracking doesn't work for me and knows of my presence in the office.
If they reach out to me, I will refer back to earlier notices I gave them of the office tracking not working, and give them a list of people that I've regularly spoken with.
They can figure things out from there.
This just in: I need to clear from my preferred work space in 3 weeks. They want to do some demolition in that area.
There is a yet unmonitored fifth computer (A desktop) with specialized use in that space. I'll have to take the computer home and VPN into it from the office.
I know that sounds silly.
@ThinkingSapien Are you sure you're actually employed by a real company and not just an elaborate Truman-Show-esque series of pranks designed to see how far engineers can be pushed?
I cannot say that this is not the case. Being disallowed to create programs on my work assigned computer for work reasons will always stand out to me as a really weird restriction.
@LouisIngenthron