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Workplace Privacy - IBM Hot, Lilly Not
Brahmastra writes "Reuters has posted an article about the best and worst companies for workplace privacy, passing on information from the forthcoming issue of Wired Magazine, and IBM comes out on top. How does your workplace compare?" According to the summary, Eli Lilly was rated "the most notorious Big Brother boss", after "...its invasive background checks of workers after Sept. 11, 2001, some of which led to dismissals."
My employer is pretty good when it comes to workplace privacy and freedom. Afterall, they don't seem to mind me reading Slas
Still can't masturbate in the privacy of my cube without someone complaining to HR. The terrorists have already won...
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and IBM is Big Blue Brother :)
Of course IBM comes out on top, as far as privacy goes. I've never worked there, but all the stories i hear about IBM gives me the impression that they are stuffy, overly structured, and overprofessional... Kinda like the IRS or the CIA.
Especially thier legal department. You just don't fuck with IBM....
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Must have been when Apple snuck up on us and became all geek cool. I think I missed that announcement and suddenly it's all powerbooks and ibooks around me.
Where's mine dammit?
Those Eli Lilly people sound like TERRORISTS!!!!! We should probably lock them up for a few months with no trial or phonecalls then threaten them with evil shit until they admit they are!
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
I've been afraid of this. The proliferation of penis enlargement spam, and thus penis enlargement "natural herbal methods" has given companies an excuse not to pay up on health insurance claims. If you measure 3" longer than you should (to say nothing of breadth and vigor), you've obviously been popping the pills, and since the side effects are unknown, your claim is nullified. It's the new urine test, only you don't even need a glass of water.
Either that or the parent poster is less Informative than the moderators suspect.
While it's esay for us to sit here and complain on them for invasive background checks of workers after Sept. 11 its not that easy for them to avoid getting decent workers that don't disclose their research to terrorists. For example if Bin-Laden got hold of all the research of Elly he might avoid getting diseases like osteoporosis, cancer, depression, schizophrenia and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. So actually its better that they check their future employees than Bin-Laden getting 120 yeras old.
Proud patriot and republican voter.
When did they get all nice-nice?
They didn't. Everyone else got bad-bad.
Of course it runs NetBSD. BTC: 1NT7QvbetmANwaMzhpVL6
I, for one, welcome our new rulers from IBM....
They don't spy on employees...they are helping the Linux battle against SCO, not to mention helping further open source by contributing to Linux, eclipse, and others.
It all adds up: while they're not watching what their employees are doing, their employees are contributing things to Linux that are getting them sued by SCO.
Er... is what SCO might say...
The real Ralph Yarro posts as Anonymous Coward. Anyone else is an impostor.
Let me guess...you are posting on Slashdot from work???
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Well, let's see. I know on Slashdot we don't read articles, but do we at least read comments we are replying to?
With all that said... I did post this from work.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have our answer!
Don't be so hard on the poor AC. He actually has an account, but he's unable to log in because he can't spell his password right!
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
Reminds me of an old job, when one of the bosses tried to install a key-logger on my machine. It stored the key presses as a text file in C:\. Of course I noticed this (hard not to, it kept crashing) -- and being the evil person that I am, I replaced it with some imaginative ASCI art.
I don't work there anymore.
I would post a very angry reply, but I am posting this from work.
They kindly leave the firewall configured so I can SSH to my home machine and tunnel to my private proxy. Thanks boss!
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
because all their employees work in Singapore, India, Russia, etc.
Pretty hard to walk buy and catch someone watchin porn when they're halfway around the world!
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My vote is for the Law of Gravity. No! Wait...Conservation of Energy... mmmmmmm perpetual motion...No Wait! Inertia! Yea!
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
...he's probably glad he did.... great discounts for ex-employees. AND monitoring. Lilly cares.
Even the worst libertarian excesses of the 1980s War on Drugs, as presided over by Edwin Meese...
You might want to pick up a dictionary and look at the word "libertarian".
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
Now you know what PR people get paid for....
-- Slashdot: When Public Access TV Says "No"
you said... "hard on"
Well, I would hardly call even President Bush "a member of the radical right wing". I think this term is usually reserved for the folks who let religious beliefs be their primary guide in their political views - and who believe in individual freedoms and rights only "as long as it doesn't interfere with my own moral beliefs".
The "War on Drugs" certainly did cost us civil liberties - but honestly, this was an unfortunate side-effect of President Reagan allowing his wife to get her way on the issue, more than anything else. It may well be the biggest mistake Reagan made during his term of office, too.
I don't see the fight to stop our individual rights and freedoms from slipping away as something that follows along any particular party lines. It's an issue that affects *everyone*, conservative or liberal. No matter who is in office, I'd hope they have some respect for these things, because we hardly have a "United States of America" worth mentioning without them.
And no, I'm not a 24-year-old script kiddie (I'm 41).
And we know there is a surging market for 41-year-old script geezers.
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