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If you work for the government and you care about checking your work email when you're home, you're doing it wrong. :)
by mmagin 13y ago
If you work for the government and you care about checking your work email when you're home, you're doing it wrong. :)
- rsync 13y agoI would be amazed if they even have email. Have you ever been on the phone with the IRS, or a state bureau or the treasury (or whatever) and in the normal course of conversation and workflow you suggest emailing them a document ... or using any reasonable workflow whatsoever ? The answer is not only "no", but "no, because I don't have email here". Absolutely stupefying.
- raganwald 13y agoLet me rephrase your story using HN-centric terms: You: "Hello IRS, I want to send you a sensitive document over an insecure channel that another department of government is hoovering up." IRS: "No." :-)
- rayiner 13y agoYou can't assume that e-mail is a reasonable work flow. It's reasonable for the IRS to have a policy of taxpayers not sending sensitive accounting documents to random employees' email accounts.
- dragonwriter 13y agoI've never had that experience, and every state and federal office I've worked in, or known people who have worked in, has email. They may also have procedures that limit what communication channels documents for particular uses can be received through that prohibits using email for certain functions, but they have email.
- mmagin 13y agoActually, I have family who recently retired from US government employment. They did have email, but the MS Exchange quota was ridiculously small, even though exchanging CAD drawings with contractors was very much part of their job. Also, things like Dropbox were blocked. I was amazed that this level of IT stupidity was possible until I learned that the IT people there didn't even report to the local management of their (fairly sizable) facility. No wonder they weren't required to actually help people get their jobs done.