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Keystroke Logging Declared Illegal in Alberta
Meshach writes "The Globe and Mail has a story about how
keystroke logging has been declared illegal in Alberta Canada. The ruling applies to companies using logging as a means to track employees." From the article: " The employee, who was not named, worked as a computer technician for six months in 2004. Ms. Silver said it was a job where productivity was hard to measure. 'We thought that using an objective check through the computer would be the most fair and objective way to do that,' she said Wednesday."
They have a "Privacy Commissioner"! In the US, we've got secret police.
"These days it's all secrecy, no privacy."
- The Rolling Stones, Fingerprint File
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make install -not war
Damn government telling me what to do. I mean I own this gun, and I own this bullet. Why shouldn't I be able to fire it an Anonymous Cowards? I mean I own the things, I should be able to do what I want with them!
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Well said. Wish I had mod points today.
Just because things are running well and the work is getting done doesn't mean the employee is productive. It might mean that the employee is indeed a slackass, and that there's just not enough for him to do.
For example, this particular computer tech might be in charge of a computer area that experiences very little use. Therefore, there's less virii and garbage on the things for him to clean-off.
As this guy's employer, they have every right to make sure that he is fully engaged in something at all prescribed times, and they should do everything and anything in their power to exercise that right. If he's got so much ass-time, he could be helping out a clerk putting away books. Hell - he could even be pushing a broom. Really, they can make him do anything that they want him to; when he's on the clock, his ass belongs to the company. All the company has to do is watch out for his health & safety, and not grab his junk. (Harrassment stuff I mean). When you're on the clock, you're a bitch.
I disagree with the keylogging though. But not on the basis that it compromises his security, or that it's somehow an injustice. I disagree with the keylogging because it's just pussy-footing around. If they thought his work habits were slack, they should have just fired him. Or if they were feeling generous, march him outside, give him a spade, and make him dig holes to teach him a lesson. When he's done digging the holes, make him fill them back in, and dig 'em up again. When he's done that for a week or two, (and if they think he's learned his lesson, then consider bringing him back into white collar work). I'm sure his attitude would have been altered.
Red Forman said it best...."Work isn't supposed to be fun...If it was, they wouldn't call it work....They'd call it "fiddle-dee-dee""
IT "experts" need to stop resting on their laurels, and start busting their asses like the rest of us. You'd think that the dotcom crash would have taught them some humility...But no...All it did was weed some of them out. The remainder are still just as lazy and self-important as they were ten years ago.
This is how it should work:
"Johnson....You've got 1500 lines of assembly to finish before 10 am. When you're done that, go file your TPS reports. Then go down to the print stations, and sort through the recycle bin and try to recover any pieces of paper that were thrown in there by mistake. Then write me an e-mail explaining this, and be sure to justify how much time it took you to do it. This should take you until about 11 am. Then go see the building operator, sign out the power-buffer, and go polish the floor in the server room. Take your thirty minute lunch break, and report back to me for your next assignment. Do it and like it. Your reward is your paycheque. If not, I suggest you stop being so partial to food and shelter. Now get out of my office and get to work."