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How to Fake A Hard Day at the Office
futileboy writes "There's a great article in the WSJ about how to use technology to avoid work, while giving the impression of working. At the bottom of the article is "A beginner's guide to making it look like you're working when you're not." "
Once again, Slashdot is days late.
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In Soviet Russia, work pretends to do YOU!
Let's break down your responses, shall we?
- He has a point here; most people don't have a clue how to use the features of email software. Of course a "good" admin and a "good" IT department make it their job to teach people this stuff.
Wrong. Some network admins are not desktop techs. Some don't even sit with their users. I was being general, but since you attack me - I'll tell you that over 400 of my users are offsite and I never see them. It's not an admins job, by default, to train users.
Hmm sounds like that investment in BlackBerry devices is going down the drain since users can't access their work email. Congratulations "good" admin you just wasted a butt load of money, way to go!
Pshaw! The reason I separated bb mailboxes from regular mailboxes is because that was something we did when I worked for the US NAVY. But I'm glad your little narrow mind has "deemed" us all wrong. BBs are WAY overused when they are piped into normal mailboxes. That's why we treat them as a separate system, and everone feels they are worth the money. But I'll let management know that YOU disagree. I'm sure they've have me change things right away.
Instant Messaging
- I take it that all of the companies that using IM aren't working? Has any one told them this?
No. We have internal IM capability. What we don't have it access out on the msn, jabber, yim, and aim ports. We have determined that IM is not really necessary for the job. But, alas, if YOU think it is, by all means...
- So users that don't have a laptop because the "good" admin doesn't think they need one have no way of getting their email remotely? Way to go "good" admin, keep up the good work!
Yes, it's called a Citrix VPN. Or RAS. Or webmail. But you cannot forward e-mail from our system to an SMTP address unless you have access to the backend, because it's a security risk. Any admin that let's you, or even argues for it, is a retard and shouldn't even be maintaining his own PC let alone a network.
- Yes call forwarding is bad! Who wants to call someone and actually reach who they called? How silly!
We don't allow call forwarding. We issue cell phones for this purpose.
You know, you talk a lot without even thinking. Just because you can't see the obvious solutions doesn't mean there aren't any. You're a dangerous person who passes judgement without being informed. And if you're truly in charge of a network, I'm scared that you didn't know some of these answers, whether you implement them or not. It sounds to me like your network is absolutely unrestricted chaos.