Never never never store any personal data in your corporate email/google drive/password managers. Never put personal projects on your work computers. Always download all paychecks, benefits docs, policy docs, HR communications, PDFs of performance reviews, offer letters, promotion announcements, pay adjustment announcements, RSU documents, etc, to your personal drives as soon as they become available. You never know when your access to the corporate VPN or your corporate email will disappear. This will also help in case you have any litigation with your employer; you will have the docs. This is true for ALL EMPLOYERS. Also, you never know when your badge no longer works, so don't leave anything personally important in an office. Never store personal files on a work computer as usually the IT department can see them, steal them or wipe them remotely without your knowledge.
I or people I have known have been burned by every one of these pieces of advice over the past 38 years of my career.
Including yesterday, when my employer laid off 1300 people.
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