Printing private letter at work

buglawton

If I print the occasional 1 personal page at work in a year, I have had to dig my printout from under the expense receipts and sales contract drafts that have been left there by others. Most big companies now have a print option that adds a PIN to receive the printout, they should make the system mandatory. When it comes to using co. equipment within reason, well, consider how often you use your own belongings to get work done on behalf of the company.

Norman_Castle

My local Cartridge World can print from a memory stick for 12p per sheet. I'm sure other businesses will do similar.

spud17

I'm just glad I don't work in this type of environment.

Afraid to ask your manager a simple question, afraid of what others might say if he gives you a one off permission.

thescouselander

spud17 wrote: »

I'm just glad I don't work in this type of environment.

Afraid to ask your manager a simple question, afraid of what others might say if he gives you a one off permission.

I agree. Limited personal use of the IT is allowed where I work and if one of my staff asked permission to print a letter I'd allow it.

TighterThanTwoCoatsOfPain

Allowed or not, if it's private then don't use your company IT. In the set up you've described it is most probable that they could reproduce the print if they wanted.

buglawton

Elephant in the room is, is the printout something innocuous or is it something the employer wouldn't like?

worried_jim

spud17 wrote: »

I'm just glad I don't work in this type of environment.

Afraid to ask your manager a simple question, afraid of what others might say if he gives you a one off permission.

I haven't used my home printer in years, everything gets emailed to work and printed there, I am discreet when I do it though, late night ot early morning when no one else is about.

macman

Hardly seems a good trade-off: working longer hours just to get a few sheets printed free..

no1catman

Alternatively - buy a printer so you'll be able to use it at home - when ever you like.

[Deleted User]

There's also the possibility, it could be against the company's IT policy, due to the risk of introducing a virus, or other malicious files.

My company have a policy of not allowing 3rd party storage devices to be connected, for that very reason, even though my home PC is probably at greater risk, from something I could pick up from the company's system.