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Workplace Privacy - IBM Hot, Lilly Not

Posted by simoniker on from the dogged-by-the-snoop dept.

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."

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  1. Just fine by mao+che+minh · · Score: 5, Funny
    How does your workplace compare?

    My employer is pretty good when it comes to workplace privacy and freedom. Afterall, they don't seem to mind me reading Slas

  2. No privacy at work by Hayzeus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Still can't masturbate in the privacy of my cube without someone complaining to HR. The terrorists have already won...

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  3. Lilly by The+Old+Burke · · Score: 5, Funny
    I think the explanation behind Eli Lilly's bad track recor is that they deal with a lot of research data and patient information from their testing of drugs.

    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.

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  4. Re:IBM? by TCM · · Score: 5, Funny

    When did they get all nice-nice?

    They didn't. Everyone else got bad-bad.

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  5. Heh. by FrostedWheat · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:The Radical Right Took Your Privacy Circa 1982 by Brandybuck · · Score: 4, Funny

    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".

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