Like hosted a website or a server for your personal needs, or taken a smartphone given to you for work or something like that.
No, I'm not stupid. Also technically everything you create on company time and/or company resources no longer belongs to you.
I did have a boss once (software development) who hosted his own website on the company servers. Not 100% sure if that was ever green lit by the CEO (maybe, maybe not). But I was really annoyed when the server had issues due to that private site, when I didn't have access to the code to fix them.
My boss tried to take some stuff I created on company time once, I didn’t mind though since I wasn’t keeping that shit.
You mean legally when I'm allowed/entitled to? All the time. I max out my benefits.
Why? If I'm allowed, I consider it part of my salary, and would be stupid not to cash it in.
The majority of labor is cucked (unpaid overtime, not using their sick days before they expire, ect).
To be fair, the concept of having a cap for sick days is ridiculous.
My manager actually wants me to host a Minecraft server on company hardware to test our performance monitoring system, aren't I lucky
Now if only I knew how to get players on it who aren't my friends
This was more of a community service, but when I worked for a university office I ran a TOR node on one of my PCs. After a while though, IT sent someone to ask me kindly not to make it an exit node. Other than that they didn't seem to mind. It was nice having excess bandwidth.
I also ran some distributed computing apps like folding@home.
I was working in my (poor third world) government job, and our keyboard broke. Replacements took months, since they only bought mouse and keyboards in bulk once per year or so, and they ran out of.
I had a second job working as a contractor for a private company, where we were contracted for a public hospital providing system administration and technical support. We had some old PS2 keyboards that were to be decommissioned, but since they didn't have inventory number, I got hold of them and brought some to my other job.
So I donated some equipment from one area of government to another, but it was kinda illegal, lol 😆.
Any time I'm in the office, I make sure to take a nice long relaxing crap.
I used a forklift to move a car that blocked me into my parking space. I’d already put in my two weeks though and the whole “losing unemployment because I was fired with cause” sucked. Worth though.
I worked at a car dealership that put out very nice, fresh muffins for the customers. I was a drug addict at the time and wasn't spending money on food so that's where I ate
I’ve taken smartphones and laptops, given for work but then never returned when leaving. Nothing permanent for hosting but I have used our infra for games and file sharing.
When I need to run multiple vms, work laptop is much stronger than personal laptop and there is usually no personal data related so sure. I've also used the only (work) iPhone I have for Apple related things, like using apple books, which is admittedly stupid but I consider anything I get from there single use either way and not particularly private either.
Printing/scanning on the company printer. Was careful at a corporate job as I suspected they might monitor what I send to the printer or what the printer scans, so I was low-key with that
In 1999 when the entire town was on dialup, I set up this relatively small PC with FreeBSD 3.3 and eggdrop, and hid it in the school library. That way I had an IRC bot that worked while I was offline. After a while I also set it up to automatically grab files from FTP servers for me, but getting these out from the "server" offline was tricky due to 1.44MB floppies being the only removable storage I had available.
Back then internet carried dialup charges per minute for me, so this was a huge time and money saver.
