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I already have a laptop I am supposed to use - am using it right now.
The only extra thing was the docking station which allows me to add two external monitors (I have better ones at home than at my office) so that's working out OK.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Dan Neely wrote: My boss said we could take whatever we needed to work effectively from home.
why did you not take his car?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: why did you not take his car?
Mine's better? 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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My work laptop, a development board, a couple of set-top boxes (writing software for them), an external hard disk, and assorted cables.
I could have taken a couple of monitors, but I don't really have room for them in my home study.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Nothing in particular for this...
- I brought my keyboard and trackball home, but they are mine- this way I don't need to snag the identical set from my personal equipment.
- Docks I already snagged- "hard" dock for older Dells came in handy as my SO got an older Dell to work from home with. USB-C docks from my last Dell work perfectly fine with my Thinkpad... if not better than the Thunderbold III monster I use at work
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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I always have a spare mouse in the bagpack because I am the one going to the machines, and new versions of my mainly used software rely a lot in the mouse (before I could do 95% of my job only using keyboard, today is impossible)
I just borrowed a keyboard today because my spare one wa a present to my mother in law when she bought a lappie, and I am going to work 75% at home next weeks. Once done and back in the company in daily basis, it will go back to the office.
Nothing else.
Actually the other way around, I am using my own monitor and, as I am going to renew my equipment in near future (pc, 2x new monitors or maybe 3x...), I am planing to buy an used docking station to make my life more comfortable if I work at home in the future.
But I have seen people taking monitors and other big devices from the office.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I inverted it even further. When IT said they wouldn't get me a nicer monitor that I could tell various colors apart in my proposals I asked if I could bring in a 3440x1440 34" monitor and they said yes (have a copy of the email). I replaced my main display with a curved one at home and brought in the older one in along with a monitor arm. Same with nice older mechanical keyboard and mouse. There is significant jealousy when people see my display until I tell them what I did, then people are flabbergasted I would do such a thing.
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Dan Neely wrote: My boss said we could take whatever we needed to work effectively from home.
Ours too. I only took my salt lamp light and my headset. At home, I have an equivalent setup already, so nothing else was needed. And I already had my personal laptop set up with all the codez and viri protectors and VPN and local sandbox DB's, so most of the time I'm not even connected to the VPN.
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Dan Neely wrote: My boss said we could take whatever we needed to work effectively from home
That sounds a lot like "When I was arrested, I was told that anything I said would be held against me. I tried to say 'Raquel Welch', but it didn't work".
(Sorry, I don't remember who made that joke. I am sure someone can fill me in on it.)
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You're dating yourself there, 7989122. Raquel's a beautiful lady, even today.
Software Zen: delete this;
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My boss gave us loads and loads of .. extra work. Not joking 
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"Liberated", the term is "liberated" 
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My 2nd monitor. Considering taking my chair as well.
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I looted that ass hat boss of mine like there's no tomorrow (because that could actually be true).
I took his laptop, screens, docking station, even his apples!
That bastard will have nothing left, but I don't care.
Let him crawl and suffer and beg for his stuff.
Also, I'm self employed 
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That would've required me to go in there.
We had a call Monday. Apparently quite a few people are in the office. I told them that I'm going to stick with what the CDC says, and see them in a few weeks.
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Wow. That's quite a bit of stuff.
I brought home a couple GB of data and an application or two, all fitting nicely on my thumb drive.
I also brought home a USB device about the size of a thumb drive that we developed in-house. I needed it for some debugging that doesn't work over the network.
Software Zen: delete this;
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A chair, two monitors, all the red bulls, spread cheese, sliced cheese and salami
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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We're allowing our staff to take home monitors from their desks. Since most of them are on Surface Pros, why not take one or both of their monitors home (and the Surface Dock if necessary). This prevents technology from limiting their productivity while working remotely.
No looting involved, just smart use of company resources. Since
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obermd wrote: No looting involved, just smart use of company resources. Since
I think you forgot your joke detector and most of your last sentence in the office. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Nothing other than my laptop. I have better stuff than they'd ever buy for me at work. I have 3 3440x1440 and 2 2560x1440 monitors on my home workstation. I have better keyboards and mice than they give me at work. I can't run any of my software on my workstation, but I can attend virtual meetings as long as they are done with the external systems and I can also use our web browser based citrix system to log into my workstation at work.
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Isn't it a sad comment on employers that the vast majority of us have 10 times better setups at home than at our desk at work (if you even have a desk)?
I hear rumors that our 6x6 cubicles are being replaced with open office once the remodel is done. Glad I am close to retirement. Not sure how I am going to work on 3 or 4 targets with just a 5x3 area with no walls and no place to put a static mat. Yeah, definitely looking forward to sharing an office with 50 of my close personal friends.
Now that the kids are grown, I have an actual room with a real desk, Pandora on the surround sound, a truly useful desk chair, and control of the thermostat.
Like others, I keep trying to bring my own stuff to the office rather than the other way around. My two monitors have 400% more pixels than what is on my desk at work.
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Nothing; I was OOO when it all happened. I always take the company Mac home, but I ordered a big-a$$ monitor and a Jarvis standing desk like the one I had at work.
The wife promptly stole the desk.
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Nothing. I'd already made all the changes I needed so I could work remotely because of jury duty.. and I looted about a half dozen monitors from the e-waste bin at work over the years, so I'm good on that front too
The only thing I might yet do, is to go in so I can reboot into BIOS and enable Wake-on-LAN on the desktop box. As it is, I'm one power outage away from dead in the water.
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The keyboard. The fantastic not-fancy-yet-practical Dell keyboard with little movement yet clear haptical feedback and a volume control wheel. Love it!
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Hi All,
Trying to work from home the VPN keeps booting me off, so I had a look at the lounge. The toilet roll comment made me smile, but why are people buying all the toilet rolls? Toilet rolls tend to be in made the local country, not imported as the fixed size, mass and not really worth while transporting. Tend to have fixed demand (x bums this month, x bums next month) and as such have a static supply. All panic buying will cause is there to be a glut in toilet rolls in the future as the time taken to produce them is set. So I'm thinking that if you went for a 'thing' the shop did not have 'thing' toilet rolls are a didn't waste the journey, they last along time and don't eat anything!
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