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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."
I think it is reasonable for the work place to relize you have a life outside of work, and sometimes the to cross.
That's a huge gay area. I mean, grey area. You see, the problem is that some people use their out-of-work activities to bomb federal buildings, hijack airplanes, and so forth. Others just do unimportant things like smoke CRACK. Heh. Some of us do harmless things, but look like we're criminals (i'm a family man, really!).
Anyway, if IBM failed to identify one of their workers as being a terrorist, and then that worker blew up the building he worked in, IBM would be out a big chunk of change. They'd have a lot of dead employees on their hands, and a BIG PR disaster. But the trick is: How do you identify someone's a *insert unacceptable social behavior here*? More importantly, if someone is gay does it really impact the company all that much?
Sorry about the gay comments, I've been watching a bit of Python lately....
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> same valid points without implicating a "right-wing agenda"
Let me guess, you voted for Bush.
Everything he wrote is more or less true, the war on drugs cost us civil liberties, "tough on crime" conservtive lawmakers cost us civil liberties, and now we've reached a breaking point where the individual is not only ignorant of his or her rights but is afraid to assert them because of how everyone one else acts and how the media portrays people e.g. only criminals ask for warrants, nice people let the police right on in.
And Windows and Linux are never offtopic in the Slashdot World. So I'm reading the article, and on the sidebar I see: Study: Windows Can Be Cheaper to Use Than Linux. And I'm thinking, how come the story on IBM and privacy made it to Slashdot but not this wonderful story on Microsoft and Linux so we can all have a grand fight and yelling match. I mean really, standards around here are slipping.