And how exactly are you going to do that without it being immediately flagged by IT? Most companies I've ever worked at will have that noticed right away and sue you into oblivion if you don't have a very very good explanation...
Had that happen once to me when I switched teams within a company and copied most of my important stuff to a specially authorised usb stick before wiping my laptop and setting it up with a different OS (switch from Windows to Linux team). Before the copy process even finished I had some guy from security call me.
Group policy and it controls can be pretty impressive. They can be notified when a user even just plugs in a thumb drive. Organization dependent of course.
Can't you pull and then push to a private fork? I never had to sneak around for this sort of thing, because that laptop I'm using to write this message is the very same laptop from my old job (they sold it to me for $100 when I left) and I have my old code. It's useful in the moments when I'm like, "I know I did something like this about four years ago... how did I do that?" but it's also useful because I can cringe at some of my old code from like 4 years ago.
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u/pippin_go_round 9d ago
And how exactly are you going to do that without it being immediately flagged by IT? Most companies I've ever worked at will have that noticed right away and sue you into oblivion if you don't have a very very good explanation...
Had that happen once to me when I switched teams within a company and copied most of my important stuff to a specially authorised usb stick before wiping my laptop and setting it up with a different OS (switch from Windows to Linux team). Before the copy process even finished I had some guy from security call me.