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Please do share that list.

txcwpalpha 9y ago
http://fortune.com/fortune500/list/ http://fortune.com/fortune500/list/ There's your list. Seriously. I obviously can't share with you the list of specific clients I work for, but this attitude is pervasive enough that you should assume that any and all major corporations have this same mindset. All of them.
- cookiecaper 9y ago
  Yeah, anyone who has spent much time in Real Companies will know that this is completely predictable and that it occurs virtually everywhere. Don't give them the data if you don't expect them to harvest it. This is true for basically everything, even stuff that is typically acknowledged as sensitive. I've consulted for big financial groups whose customer service reps had completely unfettered access to SSNs, birthdays, and everything else they had on millions of customers. I would not have been surprised in the least to learn that some programmers in the company, either acting on their own behalf or acting at the request of a superior, were taking samples of this data for "unofficial" use. Maybe the takeaway is that the SV brogrammer is not quite as special as he/she thought, and not exempt from the temptations that afflict the rest of us.
- thousandautumns 9y ago
  If you "I obviously can't share with you the list of specific clients I work for", then don't immediately precede that with "I can give you an entire list of F500 companies I've worked at that have the same mindset." That was your original claim. Listing the Fortune 500 doesn't actually add anything substantive to the discussion or add evidence to your position (if anything, I doubt you even more now). Do us all a favor and don't make boastful claims in order to make a point, if you are unable or unwilling to follow through.
  - txcwpalpha 9y ago
    Oh no! I'm so hurt that you, a random stranger on the internet with no consequence to my life, doubt me now. /s Believe me or don't believe me, I don't care. I too see the irony in saying "I can provide you a list" and then following it up with "I can't provide you a list", but that's immaterial to the point being made, which you conveniently dodged.

http://fortune.com/fortune500/list/ http://fortune.com/fortune500/list/ There's your list. Seriously. I obviously can't share with you the list of specific clients I work for, but this attitude is pervasive enough that you should assume that any and all major corporations have this same mindset. All of them.

cookiecaper 9y ago
Yeah, anyone who has spent much time in Real Companies will know that this is completely predictable and that it occurs virtually everywhere. Don't give them the data if you don't expect them to harvest it. This is true for basically everything, even stuff that is typically acknowledged as sensitive. I've consulted for big financial groups whose customer service reps had completely unfettered access to SSNs, birthdays, and everything else they had on millions of customers. I would not have been surprised in the least to learn that some programmers in the company, either acting on their own behalf or acting at the request of a superior, were taking samples of this data for "unofficial" use. Maybe the takeaway is that the SV brogrammer is not quite as special as he/she thought, and not exempt from the temptations that afflict the rest of us.
thousandautumns 9y ago
If you "I obviously can't share with you the list of specific clients I work for", then don't immediately precede that with "I can give you an entire list of F500 companies I've worked at that have the same mindset." That was your original claim. Listing the Fortune 500 doesn't actually add anything substantive to the discussion or add evidence to your position (if anything, I doubt you even more now). Do us all a favor and don't make boastful claims in order to make a point, if you are unable or unwilling to follow through.
- txcwpalpha 9y ago
  Oh no! I'm so hurt that you, a random stranger on the internet with no consequence to my life, doubt me now. /s Believe me or don't believe me, I don't care. I too see the irony in saying "I can provide you a list" and then following it up with "I can't provide you a list", but that's immaterial to the point being made, which you conveniently dodged.