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If any of my "users" where to pull any of the bullshit stunts you've listed here on my watch I guarantee you I'd have them fired within five business days if it

If any of my "users" where to pull any of the bullshit stunts you've listed here on my watch I guarantee you I'd have them fired within five business days if it meant I had to send spoofed mail from their address containing horse porn to the head of HR to pull it off. In a medium to large company, IT's job isn't to make you happy. This is typically impossible thanks to a combination of understaffing and budget issues. Their job isn't to debate you on software choices or provide coherent explanations of corporate IT policy. It isn't even keep you productive. It's to make sure the cube dwelling luddites (and if you aren't in IT you are one, regardless of how much you know about computers) don't break critical infrastructure. Spend 32 hours over a weekend quarantining and disinfecting an entire network because some dickhead decided he needed to bring in his malware-infected laptop to work and the standard company policy banning private equipment comes into focus pretty quickly.

oz 15y ago
You're being downvoted because of the 'spoofed email' line, but I understand where you're coming from. "Spend 32 hours over a weekend quarantining and disinfecting an entire network because some dickhead decided he needed to bring in his malware-infected laptop to work and the standard company policy banning private equipment comes into focus pretty quickly." Bet it was unpaid overtime too, wasn't it? Take one instance I've seen: group of guys decide that they want wireless access on their floor. One brings his home WiFi router, and plugs it right in. So now anyone walking by with cursory knowledge of WiFi hacking could get all our data. Just because they wanted Youtube on their BlackBerries.
gatlin 15y ago
> I'd have them fired within five business days if it meant I had to send spoofed mail from their address containing horse porn to the head of HR to pull it off At least you're creative when you put ethics in the back seat.

oz 15y ago

You're being downvoted because of the 'spoofed email' line, but I understand where you're coming from. "Spend 32 hours over a weekend quarantining and disinfecting an entire network because some dickhead decided he needed to bring in his malware-infected laptop to work and the standard company policy banning private equipment comes into focus pretty quickly." Bet it was unpaid overtime too, wasn't it? Take one instance I've seen: group of guys decide that they want wireless access on their floor. One brings his home WiFi router, and plugs it right in. So now anyone walking by with cursory knowledge of WiFi hacking could get all our data. Just because they wanted Youtube on their BlackBerries.

gatlin 15y ago

> I'd have them fired within five business days if it meant I had to send spoofed mail from their address containing horse porn to the head of HR to pull it off At least you're creative when you put ethics in the back seat.