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List of tools to extract useful items from work accounts?

I'm burnt the fuck out. Been with my company for 7 years and it's the same bullshit and same messes to clean up over and over and over again. Because I started when it was a startup, and it's a mess of a company, there was (and is) the expectation of using personal equipment (phone, computer) for work. This is my first “real” job so was sloppy. Google accounts, never paid much attention to what account was logged in when etc etc. This hit me like a brick wall the other day. My phone met a dramatic end. Got a new phone, set it up. Cool cool. Got a call from an “unknown” number from my hometown zip code. Ignored it because spam is alive and well. Y'all it was my own damn mother. She was calling from her work number, which I don't instinctively recognize, so had no idea.…


I'm burnt the fuck out. Been with my company for 7 years and it's the same bullshit and same messes to clean up over and over and over again.

Because I started when it was a startup, and it's a mess of a company, there was (and is) the expectation of using personal equipment (phone, computer) for work.

This is my first “real” job so was sloppy. Google accounts, never paid much attention to what account was logged in when etc etc.

This hit me like a brick wall the other day. My phone met a dramatic end. Got a new phone, set it up. Cool cool. Got a call from an “unknown” number from my hometown zip code. Ignored it because spam is alive and well.

Y'all it was my own damn mother.

She was calling from her work number, which I don't instinctively recognize, so had no idea. Turns out I had that number saved under my work Google account.

Yikes

This sent me down a rabbit hole of… oh God, what else is stored in only my work account? I've gotten better in recent years but I have no idea. I've taken it for granted that caller ID pops up and it's all the same, right?

Anyways long story short I'm not trying to leave work soon, I'm not at risk of getting fired or anything, but I really really need to extract that information NOW so I don't get caught with my pants down later.

I know I could figure it out but was hoping to get pointed to a checklist for this sort of procedure?

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