Every time I've known I was going to turn in my notice, I end up going through everything and cleaning out any personal stuff and clean up my mailbox before the letter ever gets put in. You never know if you'll be given the opportunity to do that once your notice is in. If there's anything that needs to be saved, it's a good idea to keep a rolling backup of it now on everyone. That way, when someone turns in their notice (whether everything is above board or not), you have everything you need and you're
I'll add, you should actually keep the stuff he says is important to hold onto. I've spent a lot of time in the past collecting historical documents and organizing stuff so my employers can retain it after I'm gone. Three times now I've returned to companies where instead of keeping my data they wipe the laptop, delete my email and destroy years of valuable data. I've learned that companies cannot be trusted to keep valuable data and they will often not keep you on long enough to do proper knowledge transfer. Now I prepare docs ahead of resignation and hand them off to my peers and stuff it on shared servers, because management doesn't seem to consider employees might have had data of any value.
It's very rare that I keep something of value to the rest of my team in my own account. Most projects I work on have common areas on servers where you're supposed to put everything and even a revision control system that holds the master copy of most code and documents. In any case, every user's account should be connected to a backup system anyway so that nothing of value is lost for any reason.
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Do it before they put in their notice. (Score:5, Insightful)
Every time I've known I was going to turn in my notice, I end up going through everything and cleaning out any personal stuff and clean up my mailbox before the letter ever gets put in. You never know if you'll be given the opportunity to do that once your notice is in. If there's anything that needs to be saved, it's a good idea to keep a rolling backup of it now on everyone. That way, when someone turns in their notice (whether everything is above board or not), you have everything you need and you're
Re:Do it before they put in their notice. (Score:3)
I'll add, you should actually keep the stuff he says is important to hold onto. I've spent a lot of time in the past collecting historical documents and organizing stuff so my employers can retain it after I'm gone. Three times now I've returned to companies where instead of keeping my data they wipe the laptop, delete my email and destroy years of valuable data. I've learned that companies cannot be trusted to keep valuable data and they will often not keep you on long enough to do proper knowledge transfer. Now I prepare docs ahead of resignation and hand them off to my peers and stuff it on shared servers, because management doesn't seem to consider employees might have had data of any value.
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It's very rare that I keep something of value to the rest of my team in my own account. Most projects I work on have common areas on servers where you're supposed to put everything and even a revision control system that holds the master copy of most code and documents. In any case, every user's account should be connected to a backup system anyway so that nothing of value is lost for any reason.