I made a mistake and I think I can't go on anymore...
I never thought I'd be in this position. Today, I received this email that felt like a punch to the gut. I'm being asked to return all my company IT assets immediately.
I couldn't pay rent for the last 2 months because I got laid off from my last role and I ran out of savings. I was desperate. So I learnt how to do sports betting and made good money. I had made 80k in 2 months which allowed me to put food on the table for my family and pay rent.
I had recently started a new job and one day, I just made some bets on my work laptop. I didn't realize that they had placed spyware on it ffs. But now I've been caught and they are not understanding my situation.
Please help me with any leads. I have been working as a software engineer and have worked on Java. I just got unlucky. Please help me.
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You did not get unlucky... you were careless.
What you are facing now is the repercussions of being careless.
It's hard to believe someone has guts to use work laptop for such things.
The only thing you can do at this stage is - Request them to keep the service letter clean and not to mention the real reason for termination. Otherwise no company will hire you in future.
They will not change their decision as they are following the protocols. Best advice would be - Move ON. Start searching for new job. And do not use office laptop for any other thing apart from office work.
I personally wouldn't recommend the other advices here. Not sure if they were meant sarcastically.
You did make a mistake, there are compliances to be followed and work laptop isn't there to do anything personal.
Now, own it, like a comment mentioned here, see to it that there's nothing mentioned in termination letter.
Get into better financial habits, maintain emergency fund, have less to no debts/loans. Note, emergency fund should cover your debts for the period you want to cover with emergency fund.
Having financial prudence and minimalist lifestyle can help you stay away from Gambling.
Unless it's an addiction and you enjoy so much that you can't let go of addiction, getting into financial prudence should do the trick. If not, get serious help
Someone else posted a similar email earlier here. Then tok someone had commented, rightly, that its an AD. Its a sof ad Don’t fall for this. @Micheal_Scott does such a post go against community guidelines.
Firstly, it's not spyware, it's EDR which is required for every company to have on their systems to protect them from cyber attacks and maintain compliance both with internal and external policies. It was a mistake on your end to use work laptop for anything except work, and you should take lessons from it. Never use your company laptop even for watching a movie, the SOC team knows everything that you do on your system.
Secondly, get out of betting and gambling. People only see luck or winnings in the initial phase, after some months it shows its parasitic nature. If you don't stop betting now, you will be in a much more dire situation in future and at that time you won't be able to do anything to save yourself or your family from the doom. If this has become an addiction, there are government helplines as well as non-profit organisations that can help you. Make right decisions, and think long term.
Just stay away from betting. Once your luck runs out, you ll lose whatever little peace you have currently.
Take a bong rip and yolo on crypto. That would save you. ❤️
As if layoff had not been enough, you thought to get terminated next!! It is not being unlucky as someone already commented. You should first start acknowledging your mistake and then you should take an oath never to repeat it. Best wishes..
You screwed up
I am sorry but tf. My office laptop dosent even have a Spyware or any such software (and I'm like 99.9% certain of this). I still don't do leetcode on that laptop, even if I have some free time in office. This is not luck, you aren't thinking straight dude. I think you really need to get your head straight or more issues will follow