Circumventing your Network Administrator?

I've done it, but don't recommend it. The best way to get on the bad side of the head of IT is to prove you know more than he does. The guy still scowls at me in traffic and I haven't worked there for 5+ years.

IT either lost the connection or hung up on me, I'm hoping it's just lost connection.

I've discovered more, not only have they implemented forced updates, there is also a forced "after hours log off." Three days in a row, everything has been shutdown, I assumed on day 2 it was maybe more updates, but when it did it again today, there was an error, when I logged it on that "forced after hours log off" couldn't log off for some reason.

My standard practice is to hibernate my laptop, remove it from the docking station and take it home with me. Often working more at home. Hibernated it again after using it at home, bring it to work the next morning, put it in the docking station, turn it back on. The past few days, EVERYTHING I had open, documents, spread sheets, websites, research related software, is now closed. I'm good about saving documents, and the MS Office software usually auto saves, but all the tabs I had open on the web browser are gone, and Firefox doesn't auto restore them.

I called IT again, after the "bad connection," and left a message, if there's not a fix to this, or a reasonably effective way to block them on my end, I'll save everything to my external hard drive and do a fresh install of Windows.

Firefox can restore your last session from under the History menu. You might also want to install the Session Manager addon that can save multiple sessions and gives you the ability to manage them manually.

Being nice got me nowhere. As I expected. No exemptions for me.

I can live with the updates, but forcing my computer to log me of at 10:00 PM every day is annoying.