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Got axed for using my own laptop at the Denver office, still confused
I chose to bring my personal Dell instead of the clunky company HP everyone hated. Then they fired me over a security policy I never saw. The policy was buried in a 2018 email, not the handbook. HR said I violated 'device integrity standards' after 2 years of doing it. $4,200 in lost pay and no appeal process. Has anyone else been hit for a rule that never got announced?
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rileygarcia28d ago
Rules buried in old emails are still rules. You said yourself the policy existed back in 2018, so it was out there, just not where you looked. Companies update handbooks way slower than their actual policies, and IT policies especially get pushed out through email blasts that nobody reads. Two years of doing something doesn't make it okay if the rule was always on the books, that's like saying speeding is fine because you never got pulled over. Also, using personal hardware for work is a huge deal for data protection, even if the company HP was slow and annoying. Sounds like HR had a clear reason and you just didn't bother to check the fine print after you signed on.
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