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The CTO of a company I worked for had a solution for this problem that, while crass, was effective. Any time he saw an unlocked and unattended workstation he w
by ianamartin 11y ago
The CTO of a company I worked for had a solution for this problem that, while crass, was effective.
Any time he saw an unlocked and unattended workstation he would set the home page of the browser to a hard core porn site.
Then later after the person was back at the desk he would claim to need to check on something real quick. He'd fire up the web browser, and up comes the porn site.
Then he'd pretend to be all pissed off and start yelling at the person for browsing porn at work.
Eventually, he'd explain what happened and made his point.
- andrelaszlo 11y agoThis could, I think, be classified as sexual harassment. At least in Sweden ("sexuellt ofredande") where I live. If my boss did that, I'd probably quit. So yeah, I guess it's "effective".
- ianamartin 11y agoMost definitely.
- arethuza 11y agoI would say that the CTO is probably a bigger liability from an HR perspective than the potential security problems of leaving computers unlocked.
- chris_wot 11y agoIf he did that in Australia he would open the company up for civil action.