Posted on 11/12/2023 5:45:18 AM PST by Libloather
Thanks, I asked because of an incident my work probably 20 plus years ago.
A supervisor suspected an employee of improper, non-work releated web usage, and wanted IT to track and record him.
IT manager said, no, that is wire tapping. But supervisor could come down to IT and monitor employee in real time. (He wouldn’t/couldn’t spend the time, so didn’t.)
I haven’t checked back, but suspect that the EUC policy covers all that now.
In the late 90’s I was a director of a small group of guys who installed internet access for out company. “Everyone gets access from their desktop PC!” This was before hardware routers were economical (There were Wellfleet models, but they were big money). So we used a PC running some proxy-like software that provided a basic firewall, and NATing of addresses. It also provided a single access point to the net, and featured logging. We logged everything, and one of the inside sales guys would spend all day surfing porn. We went to him and told him “Dude, everything you do on the internet is logged. If you’re doing anything that you shouldn’t, knock it off”. A week later we checked the logs, porn. All day, every day. We went to his boss, and told him what was going on. Boss called him in, told him “Rick, they log EVERYTHING. Knock it off!” 2 weeks later we check, all porn, all day. We print out his log for the last 2 weeks, 170+ pages of misskitty dot com, and give it to his manager. Manager calls him in, he denies it. Manager pulls out the logs and starts reading them to him. He denies it all, he gets fired. Strangely after he left, there were no more visits to misskitty dot com.
Must have poor reading comprehension and/or bad short term memory.
while WFH, my work laptop sat next to my personal PC, i worked on the work machine...
also don’t friend the boss
years ago a receptionist forgot she friended the office manager, so when she posted herself playing hooky, the next day, well the next day was fun to watch...
It was an HP Network Printer. That printer had an operating system and a web server on it. Every HP Network Printer came with that. At least back then.
The consultant was able to connect to the printer and use it as a proxy to connect to other systems outside the bank, which he then used to stalk his ex-girlfriend.
He thought he could hide the connection from his bank issued laptop to the Network Printer, and then to systems outside the bank. Obviously he wasn't.
It's been at least 10 years ago now since that happend so some of the details are lost to me now. The above is what I can remember. Other details have faded from memory.
No. Ctrl-Alt-Delete
ok no problem
My company wants us to sign in and out using our own phones. A group of us refused and were given company tablets.
Then the company was acquired by a bigger fish, changed the sign in/sign out software to a different package, then disabled the new package on our tablets.
I am still refusing to install the package on my phone. It gets terrible reviews from users and reduces the performance of your phone. Even messed up one colleague’s glucose monitoring app. Drains the battery transmitting GPS. Takes ten minutes to clock in. Have to keep logging out and back in, according to users.
And I don’t want no stinking company GPS on my phone. They say it doesn’t monitor anything when you aren’t clocked in. Yeah. I trust that.
Still fighting lonely battle, unresponsive IT dept citing company policy, supervisor on my side but has other things to do. Still not using it.
time blindness... right?
There was down time when no one was calling and there were no orders on the machine to be entered.
You were still on the clock but there was really no work to be done. That was considered "free time" and you could do as you like. But when the phones started ringing and the faxes started buzzing you were expected to drop what ever it was and devote yourself to business.
Don’t use your company computer for anything but business. Use your phone or your own computer for personal things.
I had coworkers who used Microsoft Teams Chat feature. We had different ones for the help desk dept I was in. One for east coast and one for west coast. There was a main one that everyone could see.
The manager was lucky he did not see the west coast one as we had several people making remarks about them that would get those employees fired. New management took over and created yet another channel and the talk continued “privately” on the west coast one. The thing is if some manager wanted to see what John Smith was saying it would show all comments on every chat.
Funny story of the old old days. My grandfather started a business in 1908 and the deliveries were done by horse drawn wagon. One day he took over a route when that driver was out and the horse knew the route.
It made stop after stop including a bar that was not a customer....
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