Today, I just got news that our company is mandating that everyone installs spy software on their computers. As I am not going to install such software on my computer, it has been said to me that if we don’t find some solution, I will get fired.
To be honest, I was thinking about changing jobs anyway, so I don’t mind that much, but I am not sure what to do now.
I work in IT, so I have quite a lot of job opportunities, but most of them are something that is mostly harmful to society.
So I am considering two options: Try to find some meaningful job in IT (which is likely to be very hard).
Find some nice good paying job where I can work, ideally part-time, and focus on working on open source software in my free time.
Not really sure what to do, does anyone have any experience with similar situation?
I chose to work on my personal machine, I am much more comfortable and productive on it. Our company does issue work laptops, but they are basically unusable. Overall I get the point of not trusting outside machines, but I would not want to work on anything other than my system, which to be honest is much more secure than other computers at our company.
Not really sure what the laws are to be honest, but technically I am not currently their employee, so they probably wouldn’t apply anyway. I have been thinking about quitting for some time anyway, and this really pushed me to do it, so I don’t really mind that much. Also, if they fire me I know they will lose a lot of money, which is a nice benefit.