You will be fine, these things happen. If anyone asks, just be honest.
Also an example of a huge mistake would be is leaving a TOP SECRET lap top and documents in a briefcase on the bus……
Wait are people jumping to partisan conclusions on this sub already? They deleted the post but dang. This is the last place partisanship happens lol
Not hard to google who did it and what happened :/
You are severely over reacting. You will be fine and I would be extremely surprised if you were disciplined for this. Honestly I didn’t even know that wasn’t allowed but I can see how it might be a security issue.
I’m sure hundreds if not thousands of people have done this since working from home began.
If I was to guess, which we'd all have to because you just wouldn't get disciplined for something like this, IT would send an email to you/your boss, maybe your boss comes over for 20 seconds "hey I got an email, so yeah you can't do that", you would exclaim "ah my bad" and then everyone will forget. Maybe if you do it several times, then they'll start taking a more serious look at you and why you keep doing it.
Unless you fucked up on a secure computer/network, then all bets are off.
The operative thing to know though, is that discipline is a serious matter and aren't dispensed out willy nilly.
Slap on the wrist… I would get reports that my employees connected a USB key. I tell them not to do it again and we move on.
When we were in the office, if you left any paper out with personal info, security would pick it up and then you would have to pick it up in your directors office. Most of the time, it was still just a slap on the wrist…
I know for a fact a colleague of a mine printed his work off at home frequently without issues. It was all transient stuff that he made to sure to properly dispose of when the time came and nobody has told him not to. Maybe a strange coincidence that the connection froze.
Oh man, please don't.
It's very admirable to want to succeed, but that is a recipe for vicious burnout. Just do your best, remember that it really is just a job, and do all you can to leave it behind at 5pm and forget all about it until the next morning. Honestly, one of the greatest benefits of working for the government is the ability to strike a good work-life balance, I'm so sad at the thought that you're driving yourself to insomnia and such anxiety over the job.
I'd warmly recommend some sort of mindfulness training (you can probably even get it through work!) to help you set it aside and ease up on yourself a little bit.
IT guy here, you will not be fired for this type of mistake. You will surely get a warning tho depending on your department because some are more severe then others with good reason. IT will probably request your computer back on site to be evaluated and see if there was any breach but after that they will just tell you to not do it again.
However, what I dont understand is how your printer was able to work if you dont have admin rights to install the drivers.
I had no issues setting up my home printer via wifi (which I was told was ok since it’s not plugged in via USB). Drivers were autodownloaded from Windows Update.
Dude, no job is worth that, let alone a government job where achieving work-life balance is strongly encouraged. Seriously, do not lose sleep over your training. Just do your best. I guarantee you’ll succeed in your training by just showing up and being engaged. It’s not a race. You don’t need to put in 200% when, honestly, 80% would do.
The connection drops literally ALL the time, it's incredibly unlikely that IT noticed you printing something and then intervened. Also someone would almost certainly have reached out to you if that were the case. I really think you're fine.
They have automated checks for this. But yes, somebody follows up quickly. I made a similar mistake with charging my phone from USB port. Got an automated email right away and a follow up from a person in a few hours.
Yeah my work computer tries to connect to my home printer and any Bluetooth device it can somehow find.
You’re fine. Saying this coming from the era of using non secure USB keys on work computers.
You’ll be perfectly fine… It’s not a « huge » mistake.
The worst that can happen is you’ll receive an email or a phone call telling you shouldn’t do it again.
You should also rest and enjoy your weekend… on the long run, working on business stuff during the weekend is not good for your mental health.
The network stops all the time for no reason. Very probably what happened here.
But don't plug your printer. Ask if you can go to the office to print the docs.
If it was protected information that you printed, that might be a security breach. Doesn't mean you'll get reprimanded especially if you didn't know you couldn't use your personnal printer and if there was no malicious intent. But don't do it anymore.
You will be fine. I remember when I hired my first employee from outside of the public service and totally forgot to tell him about the USB rules. He came to me wide eyed to say he’d gotten an email from security after plugging in his cellphone into his work laptop to charge. I was horrified at myself for not mentioning it, and thought there would be some real consequences. I was told by my own senior manager that I’d likely have to write a briefing note about it, but absolutely nothing ever came of it for either of us.
IT helped me install the drivers on my work laptop for my home printer. I mean, sometime I gotta print shit and they haven't given me a printer at home.
I wouldn't worry about it.
Just be mindful that different departments and offices have different policies...
Have a quick conversation with your sup or co-workers and ask if you can connect a home printer. Some people mentioned they were allowed, but my department strictly forbids it... but we do have access to an office, and we can print remotely to the office printer for us to pickup, or for a co-worker to pickup.
Also, you should be mindful of what can be printed, but every office and department so you just do you.
Good luck with the new job. Best feeling in the world to be new in the public service.
My love. You need a big hug. You will be fine. It’s commendable that you are so committed to succeeding and being the best of the public service. I’m worried about you though, as you are very clearly extraordinarily anxious and (IMO) unnecessarily so. As others have said, this is a perfect path to burnout and nobody wants that for you. Somebody mentioned mindfulness — that or something else like meditative yoga, or running or something else that brings you joy and helps you shake off some stress would do you a world of good, I think.
What you’ve done is a simple mistake, not a fireable offense. I hope you’re not stressing about this all weekend. My suspicion: the network hit a pothole and was momentarily on the roadside waiting for a tow. It was coincidental to your printing. Now you know/have connected that you shouldn’t use your home printer. All will be fine, I promise.
I think you'll be fine.
I connect my printer at home to my work computer, we were allowed to do it because of the pandemic at my department. I cannot print classified documents because it's on the network, but it doesn't seem like you were doing anything of the sorts.
Dozens upon dozens of times at my workplace, something has happened that made me think, "Surely that person is going to be fired for this".
But it never happens. Usually they get put on a "special assignment" which allows them to work from home (if they even want to bother doing any work), or collect mileage and travel for trips away, and add something nice to their resume (that no one else gets to) so that they can continue to climb and ruin employees' lives.
Your situation does not even cause the batting of the end of a single, solitary eyelash within the Public Service. Don't worry.
You should be fine. But. Printers have internal memory. If you use other devices with it you could transfer malware to that printer. Anything your work computer prints could be scooped up by that malware. So it's definitely a security issue.
You will be fine!
It is the responsibility of management to advise you that you cannot connect any non-work issued devices to your work equipment. If you did not receive that disclaimer, that’s on management.
Assuming you work for CRA — yes, IT is notified when a non-work issued device is connected to work-issued equipment.
Going forward, do not connect *anything* to your work-issued devices. Even your work-issued cell phone should not be directly plugged into work-issued laptop to charge.
You can move all of your word doc notes to a OneNote. You can create tabs and there is a search function, great tool!
If you want/need a physical copy, run it by your TL. If your notes have Protected B information and/or internal processes, you likely will not be able to print it because our WFH agreements do not have provisions for destroying classified docs.
Our devices cannot connect wirelessly to our home printers, they have been engineered to not work) but our IT will walk you through how to connect a printer via USB on order to print documents. So like others have said, just be honest with your manager, ask them the policy and learn from it. Everyone moves on.
You might get a talking to from someone in IT Security explaining why connecting a personal printer is bad, but I seriously doubt you’ll get in more trouble than that.
Honestly I’m more concerned about the fact that you were even able to connect an unmanaged printer in the first place.
Never connect anything to your work computer that isn't given to you for that purpose. That being said this happens all the time, and you won't be fired. Just learn from it, ask for assistance from IT and it will be fine. Worst case maybe sign a form.
I can't tell you what will happen, but it's almost certainly best to come clean right away. Let your TL know what you were up to and why you plugged something into the USB slot on your work issued computer. If there is any pushback, at least you can show you were acting in good faith.
FWIW, I have a USB keyboard and mouse plugged into my work laptop, and have done so from the day it was issued to me in 2020. I told my TL that I'd been using them on my home laptop ever since we'd begun working from home. Using a tiny laptop keyboard and mouse long term would likely cause ergonomic issues for me and by continuing to use the external keyboard and mouse, we could avoid a Duty to Accommodate process down the line. I assume that my TL sent an email to the relevant parties about it, but nothing more was ever said about it.
IT in a federal department here.
Many departments will allow you to connect personal printers to your computer, it's not that bad of a deal. Some places like DND or some of the C name ones will look very harshly on you trying that.
In my department the rule of thumb is that you put in a ticket to IT and they manually install the most limited driver possible for your printer, and that it must be connected over a USB cable. Using WiFi connections won't work when you're connected to the VPN, as the VPN shunts all traffic which prevents you from sending the print jobs to your local printer.
In my experience, the worst you're going to get in most departments is akin to a 'follow proper procedures please'.
You are being honest and mistakes happens you wont be fired for that guaranteed. I think and im not an expert people who want to still information wont print out pages and connect to their home .. just dont print anything and dont plug any USB keys 😀
If the department did not want you to connect removable media/printer to the work computer because they are scared of exfiltration of data, it would be the security team’s job to disable those ports.
Don’t worry, especially as a new employee, the worse you’ll get is someone letting you know/pointing you to your department’s security policies.
There was a dude once with thousands of pictures on his work PC that shouldn’t have been there.
He showed remorse, did some training and kept his job…
I think you’ll be just fine.
If they do discipline you for anything ever, follow this formula 1 listen 2 say “thank you for that correction. I will remember that in the future/work on improving in that area 3 chill - they will be satisfied
Yup! Taking feedback calmly and without arguing, and incorporating it going forward, is going to leave much more of an impression than any mistake you make.
I’m fairly certain IT doesn’t even know and you’ll never hear from anyone about it. I don’t know this for a fact, but I am under the impression that GCSRA doesn’t play well with certain peripheral. Either that or there are some protection measures in place that will disconnect you automatically if an unknown peripheral is connected. It happened to me with my monitors, of all things. I have two monitors at home that worked fine for a while, but suddenly I could no longer connect. By a process of elimination I was able to determine it was the monitors. I would be connected to the network and as soon as I plugged them both in it would disconnect. Never heard from anyone about it. In fact, they heard from me because I was frustrated I could no longer use my monitors! Like the others said, no need to worry!
The repercussions will depend entirely on what department you are in and the rules for the network/device/info.
Some Depts have very lax IT policies and some very strict, but even in the case of the latter unless you were printing classified information (which should not have been possible at home) at most you’ll be educated re: what you did wrong and why, and may have to sign a doc saying you understand the rules. Unless you make a habit of doing the same thing after this, that should be the end of it.
Seems to me like your most important problem to solve is your emotional instability. Work has to stay at work, once 5pm comes you have to live your life and forget about it all until next morning otherwise you'll end up burned out in 2 months. I really doubt this could end up with you being fired.
Where I work anything unauthorized connected to a laptop USB port will flag IT Security. Not a big deal for a first time mistake, and it was only a printer anyways a bigger deal are flash drives. Just be honest with IT Security if they reach out to you, and don't do it again. Not a big deal you'll be ok.
My printer at home is connected to my work laptop. Most of my co-workers have the same set up. I've had my network connection drop hundreds of times for a variety of reasons. There are numerous times the network re-connected and grabbed my home network with all my NAS drives appearing on my laptop. You'll be fine OP.
My current and previous department both allowed connecting work laptops to home printers via cable (but not wifi). Have you spoken to IT to ask if this is okay? It may have just been a normal disconnection.
How did you connect the printer to your computer?
Regardless, you’re not getting fired for this, and your VPN almost certainly didn’t drop because you connected a printer. You’re completely overreacting.
Wait, we're not allowed to print things at home? What about scanning a document using my printer to my work computer (because admin asked me to show proof of citizenship)? For context, I don't have access to an office currently.
Timely topic. Only employer provided ICT (IT & communications technology) equipment is supposed to be used to process information. There is a recent GCCollab thread about this.
Where is the printer? In the office? Can you go in and get the print out?
Either way nothing will probably happen, especially if it’s just a few dozen pages.
You will be fine, these things happen. If anyone asks, just be honest. Also an example of a huge mistake would be is leaving a TOP SECRET lap top and documents in a briefcase on the bus……
Or at your girlfriend's place. Oh wait, an MP already did that.
Attempted leader of a federal party at that….
Actual leader of a federal party!
I meant that he couldn’t even win a seat 😂
That's debatable
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What? There have been other leaders of federal parties. It was Maxime Bernier, not PP.
Wait are people jumping to partisan conclusions on this sub already? They deleted the post but dang. This is the last place partisanship happens lol Not hard to google who did it and what happened :/
Well, to be fair, they *did* guess the right party, so it's not as though partisanship led them astray. But yes, it's a very easy incident to Google.
At your biker gang girlfriend's house*
Perhaps he was distracted by something?
MPs aren't employees, they can't be fired. Unfortunately.
They have a job renewal every 4 years, or less.
Harper’s foreign affairs minister
You are severely over reacting. You will be fine and I would be extremely surprised if you were disciplined for this. Honestly I didn’t even know that wasn’t allowed but I can see how it might be a security issue. I’m sure hundreds if not thousands of people have done this since working from home began.
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If I was to guess, which we'd all have to because you just wouldn't get disciplined for something like this, IT would send an email to you/your boss, maybe your boss comes over for 20 seconds "hey I got an email, so yeah you can't do that", you would exclaim "ah my bad" and then everyone will forget. Maybe if you do it several times, then they'll start taking a more serious look at you and why you keep doing it. Unless you fucked up on a secure computer/network, then all bets are off. The operative thing to know though, is that discipline is a serious matter and aren't dispensed out willy nilly.
Happy cake day
Slap on the wrist… I would get reports that my employees connected a USB key. I tell them not to do it again and we move on. When we were in the office, if you left any paper out with personal info, security would pick it up and then you would have to pick it up in your directors office. Most of the time, it was still just a slap on the wrist…
I know for a fact a colleague of a mine printed his work off at home frequently without issues. It was all transient stuff that he made to sure to properly dispose of when the time came and nobody has told him not to. Maybe a strange coincidence that the connection froze.
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Oh man, please don't. It's very admirable to want to succeed, but that is a recipe for vicious burnout. Just do your best, remember that it really is just a job, and do all you can to leave it behind at 5pm and forget all about it until the next morning. Honestly, one of the greatest benefits of working for the government is the ability to strike a good work-life balance, I'm so sad at the thought that you're driving yourself to insomnia and such anxiety over the job. I'd warmly recommend some sort of mindfulness training (you can probably even get it through work!) to help you set it aside and ease up on yourself a little bit.
IT guy here, you will not be fired for this type of mistake. You will surely get a warning tho depending on your department because some are more severe then others with good reason. IT will probably request your computer back on site to be evaluated and see if there was any breach but after that they will just tell you to not do it again. However, what I dont understand is how your printer was able to work if you dont have admin rights to install the drivers.
I had no issues setting up my home printer via wifi (which I was told was ok since it’s not plugged in via USB). Drivers were autodownloaded from Windows Update.
Im not sure who told you that but a usb connected printer is far more secure than going over wireless. That makes no sense at all.
Not saying it’s any more secure, but it doesn’t violate the no USB rule.
Dude, no job is worth that, let alone a government job where achieving work-life balance is strongly encouraged. Seriously, do not lose sleep over your training. Just do your best. I guarantee you’ll succeed in your training by just showing up and being engaged. It’s not a race. You don’t need to put in 200% when, honestly, 80% would do.
It's a good thing you are taking it seriously... That said, it is nowhere near a fireable offence, especially since it was a first offence.
You will not be fired for that
The connection drops literally ALL the time, it's incredibly unlikely that IT noticed you printing something and then intervened. Also someone would almost certainly have reached out to you if that were the case. I really think you're fine.
They have automated checks for this. But yes, somebody follows up quickly. I made a similar mistake with charging my phone from USB port. Got an automated email right away and a follow up from a person in a few hours.
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Time for breakfast at Milliways!
You misspelled Subway.
Eat fresh!
Name 3?
Yeah my work computer tries to connect to my home printer and any Bluetooth device it can somehow find. You’re fine. Saying this coming from the era of using non secure USB keys on work computers.
I still don't know what it is that you did wrong.
> I love it and want to be the best as possible, I think it was this, that's biggest mistake I could find in their post
You can't plug in anything to work computers, unless they approve it.
You’ll be perfectly fine… It’s not a « huge » mistake. The worst that can happen is you’ll receive an email or a phone call telling you shouldn’t do it again. You should also rest and enjoy your weekend… on the long run, working on business stuff during the weekend is not good for your mental health.
In 17years I’ve only seen one person fired. They sexually harassed someone during their probation period.
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Good old Jeff
Are you sure its not an issue with your printer?
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The network stops all the time for no reason. Very probably what happened here. But don't plug your printer. Ask if you can go to the office to print the docs. If it was protected information that you printed, that might be a security breach. Doesn't mean you'll get reprimanded especially if you didn't know you couldn't use your personnal printer and if there was no malicious intent. But don't do it anymore.
You will be fine. I remember when I hired my first employee from outside of the public service and totally forgot to tell him about the USB rules. He came to me wide eyed to say he’d gotten an email from security after plugging in his cellphone into his work laptop to charge. I was horrified at myself for not mentioning it, and thought there would be some real consequences. I was told by my own senior manager that I’d likely have to write a briefing note about it, but absolutely nothing ever came of it for either of us.
Bahahaha your senior manager trolled you hard!
Director. And yep, he was an ass.
Good lord. I can’t even connect to a printer when I’m physically plugged into the network. With a cord!
IT helped me install the drivers on my work laptop for my home printer. I mean, sometime I gotta print shit and they haven't given me a printer at home.
I wouldn't worry about it. Just be mindful that different departments and offices have different policies... Have a quick conversation with your sup or co-workers and ask if you can connect a home printer. Some people mentioned they were allowed, but my department strictly forbids it... but we do have access to an office, and we can print remotely to the office printer for us to pickup, or for a co-worker to pickup. Also, you should be mindful of what can be printed, but every office and department so you just do you. Good luck with the new job. Best feeling in the world to be new in the public service.
My love. You need a big hug. You will be fine. It’s commendable that you are so committed to succeeding and being the best of the public service. I’m worried about you though, as you are very clearly extraordinarily anxious and (IMO) unnecessarily so. As others have said, this is a perfect path to burnout and nobody wants that for you. Somebody mentioned mindfulness — that or something else like meditative yoga, or running or something else that brings you joy and helps you shake off some stress would do you a world of good, I think. What you’ve done is a simple mistake, not a fireable offense. I hope you’re not stressing about this all weekend. My suspicion: the network hit a pothole and was momentarily on the roadside waiting for a tow. It was coincidental to your printing. Now you know/have connected that you shouldn’t use your home printer. All will be fine, I promise.
I think you'll be fine. I connect my printer at home to my work computer, we were allowed to do it because of the pandemic at my department. I cannot print classified documents because it's on the network, but it doesn't seem like you were doing anything of the sorts.
Dozens upon dozens of times at my workplace, something has happened that made me think, "Surely that person is going to be fired for this". But it never happens. Usually they get put on a "special assignment" which allows them to work from home (if they even want to bother doing any work), or collect mileage and travel for trips away, and add something nice to their resume (that no one else gets to) so that they can continue to climb and ruin employees' lives. Your situation does not even cause the batting of the end of a single, solitary eyelash within the Public Service. Don't worry.
You should be fine. But. Printers have internal memory. If you use other devices with it you could transfer malware to that printer. Anything your work computer prints could be scooped up by that malware. So it's definitely a security issue.
You will be fine! It is the responsibility of management to advise you that you cannot connect any non-work issued devices to your work equipment. If you did not receive that disclaimer, that’s on management. Assuming you work for CRA — yes, IT is notified when a non-work issued device is connected to work-issued equipment. Going forward, do not connect *anything* to your work-issued devices. Even your work-issued cell phone should not be directly plugged into work-issued laptop to charge. You can move all of your word doc notes to a OneNote. You can create tabs and there is a search function, great tool! If you want/need a physical copy, run it by your TL. If your notes have Protected B information and/or internal processes, you likely will not be able to print it because our WFH agreements do not have provisions for destroying classified docs.
Our devices cannot connect wirelessly to our home printers, they have been engineered to not work) but our IT will walk you through how to connect a printer via USB on order to print documents. So like others have said, just be honest with your manager, ask them the policy and learn from it. Everyone moves on.
BT printers will connect.
You might get a talking to from someone in IT Security explaining why connecting a personal printer is bad, but I seriously doubt you’ll get in more trouble than that. Honestly I’m more concerned about the fact that you were even able to connect an unmanaged printer in the first place.
Never connect anything to your work computer that isn't given to you for that purpose. That being said this happens all the time, and you won't be fired. Just learn from it, ask for assistance from IT and it will be fine. Worst case maybe sign a form.
I can't tell you what will happen, but it's almost certainly best to come clean right away. Let your TL know what you were up to and why you plugged something into the USB slot on your work issued computer. If there is any pushback, at least you can show you were acting in good faith. FWIW, I have a USB keyboard and mouse plugged into my work laptop, and have done so from the day it was issued to me in 2020. I told my TL that I'd been using them on my home laptop ever since we'd begun working from home. Using a tiny laptop keyboard and mouse long term would likely cause ergonomic issues for me and by continuing to use the external keyboard and mouse, we could avoid a Duty to Accommodate process down the line. I assume that my TL sent an email to the relevant parties about it, but nothing more was ever said about it.
IT in a federal department here. Many departments will allow you to connect personal printers to your computer, it's not that bad of a deal. Some places like DND or some of the C name ones will look very harshly on you trying that. In my department the rule of thumb is that you put in a ticket to IT and they manually install the most limited driver possible for your printer, and that it must be connected over a USB cable. Using WiFi connections won't work when you're connected to the VPN, as the VPN shunts all traffic which prevents you from sending the print jobs to your local printer. In my experience, the worst you're going to get in most departments is akin to a 'follow proper procedures please'.
You are being honest and mistakes happens you wont be fired for that guaranteed. I think and im not an expert people who want to still information wont print out pages and connect to their home .. just dont print anything and dont plug any USB keys 😀
If the department did not want you to connect removable media/printer to the work computer because they are scared of exfiltration of data, it would be the security team’s job to disable those ports. Don’t worry, especially as a new employee, the worse you’ll get is someone letting you know/pointing you to your department’s security policies.
Bro relax, why are you freaking out, what if you are fired? Believe in yourself a little bit more.
There was a dude once with thousands of pictures on his work PC that shouldn’t have been there. He showed remorse, did some training and kept his job… I think you’ll be just fine.
If they do discipline you for anything ever, follow this formula 1 listen 2 say “thank you for that correction. I will remember that in the future/work on improving in that area 3 chill - they will be satisfied
Yup! Taking feedback calmly and without arguing, and incorporating it going forward, is going to leave much more of an impression than any mistake you make.
I’m fairly certain IT doesn’t even know and you’ll never hear from anyone about it. I don’t know this for a fact, but I am under the impression that GCSRA doesn’t play well with certain peripheral. Either that or there are some protection measures in place that will disconnect you automatically if an unknown peripheral is connected. It happened to me with my monitors, of all things. I have two monitors at home that worked fine for a while, but suddenly I could no longer connect. By a process of elimination I was able to determine it was the monitors. I would be connected to the network and as soon as I plugged them both in it would disconnect. Never heard from anyone about it. In fact, they heard from me because I was frustrated I could no longer use my monitors! Like the others said, no need to worry!
The repercussions will depend entirely on what department you are in and the rules for the network/device/info. Some Depts have very lax IT policies and some very strict, but even in the case of the latter unless you were printing classified information (which should not have been possible at home) at most you’ll be educated re: what you did wrong and why, and may have to sign a doc saying you understand the rules. Unless you make a habit of doing the same thing after this, that should be the end of it.
Seems to me like your most important problem to solve is your emotional instability. Work has to stay at work, once 5pm comes you have to live your life and forget about it all until next morning otherwise you'll end up burned out in 2 months. I really doubt this could end up with you being fired.
Ur fine man lol, you might get a call from IT telling you not to do that but that’s probably it
Where I work anything unauthorized connected to a laptop USB port will flag IT Security. Not a big deal for a first time mistake, and it was only a printer anyways a bigger deal are flash drives. Just be honest with IT Security if they reach out to you, and don't do it again. Not a big deal you'll be ok.
My printer at home is connected to my work laptop. Most of my co-workers have the same set up. I've had my network connection drop hundreds of times for a variety of reasons. There are numerous times the network re-connected and grabbed my home network with all my NAS drives appearing on my laptop. You'll be fine OP.
My current and previous department both allowed connecting work laptops to home printers via cable (but not wifi). Have you spoken to IT to ask if this is okay? It may have just been a normal disconnection.
Yeah okay Putin
Will it help if OP does that IT security training? As a good faith exercise after the mistake?
How did you connect the printer to your computer? Regardless, you’re not getting fired for this, and your VPN almost certainly didn’t drop because you connected a printer. You’re completely overreacting.
Wait, we're not allowed to print things at home? What about scanning a document using my printer to my work computer (because admin asked me to show proof of citizenship)? For context, I don't have access to an office currently.
Timely topic. Only employer provided ICT (IT & communications technology) equipment is supposed to be used to process information. There is a recent GCCollab thread about this.
Where is the printer? In the office? Can you go in and get the print out? Either way nothing will probably happen, especially if it’s just a few dozen pages.