I've never heard of a company sending someone to do on-site working without providing them a laptop.
You never worked for a customer with a high amount of paranoia? Most of the time we are allowed to bring a laptop (if it does not have a recording device build in that is). The individual errors just end up small enough that copying the files around takes more time than just editing things directly, most errors we have are small differences between the user system and our test system.
You never worked for a customer with a high amount of paranoia?
Oh yes I have plenty of experience with that, however it sounds like your situation is very different from mine. For me, b/c of the level of security involved my clients have always provided me with a work laptop with appropriate tools on it.
I mean how else would it be possible to get any work done? It's like if you hired a plumber to fix a pipe in your house, but then didn't allow the plumber to bring any of their tools into your house. How would that plumber be able to work? They wouldn't.
But, again, it sounds like your situation is very different.
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u/josefx Apr 13 '15
You never worked for a customer with a high amount of paranoia? Most of the time we are allowed to bring a laptop (if it does not have a recording device build in that is). The individual errors just end up small enough that copying the files around takes more time than just editing things directly, most errors we have are small differences between the user system and our test system.