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Telecommuting Backlash
coondoggie writes to tell us that advocates of the telecommute have stood up against recent finger pointing based on recent telecommuter screw ups. One of the more notable screw up was the recent loss of many veteran's personal information by a VA employee. From the article: "Despite years of growing acceptance, telework still has such detractors. 'The No. 1 challenge is cultural inertia. It's motivating the middle managers, teaching them a new way of doing work,' O'Keeffe says. 'It's the Luddite mentality that we need to change.'"
What?
Anyone who doesn't ask that (in our litigious society, especially) deserves what they get, because they're stupid.
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Whoever screwed up in that VA thing will likely get a promotion.
The current administration has a pattern of rewarding incompetence. Recall NORAD and FBI higher-ups getting promotions after 9/11 and CIA's Tenet getting the top civilian medal for screwup on Iraq's WMD intel.
Oh, and Iraq's Bremer getting Freedom Medal for 'losing' US$ 8,000,000,000 in Iraq, and Gen. Franks for sending enough troops. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63
"Brownie, you are doing a heck of a job!"
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
You know what the REAL problem with telecommuting is? It's kids. There you are, sitting at home, trying to set apart work from nonwork, but the kids know you're in the house. They want to play, and they're just so cute and irrisistible.
--I'm so big, my sig has its own sig.
-- See?
Wow. That's some awesome security.
By the way, for making your 1361st comment on Slashdot, you win a free USB drive. Where do I send it?
Without it... many geeks, particularly on this site, will be forced to bathe, work, and not "work" while watching ESPN, anime, or porn. The attack against telecommuting is the cultural eradication of the information age.
Via:
2 PO Boxes
3 Foreign countries
A customer's secret, illegal account in the Cayman Islands
I used to have about a million drug test results on my PC (in 94, on my 486/50 w/ 40 meg HD baybee!)...
Just for fun I did a GROUP BY query grouping who tested posted for what drug by SIC code, in descending frequency. The pattern was: Construction Workers, Marijuana and Cocaine, far and away #1. Second: employees of the school system, alcohol. Everything else was kinda scattered all over the map. I think that rather than demonstrating what kinds of people take what drugs, it demonstrates who gets hassled the most by the drug policies.
UN Inspectors are going to find that thief, because that thief has URANIUM TESTICLES. Stealing a laptop from an unlocked police car? Holy shit.
Haven't you heard of the Onion Layer in network security?
It's security that makes people cry, especially when a part is cut out of it with a knife.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
Oh crap, I shouldn't have said he's a customer.
Oh crap, I shouldn't have said it's a secret.
Oh crap, I definately shouldn't have said it's illegal.
09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
Based on what experience do you believe UN inspectors capable of finding uranium?
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
But it tastes great with a RAM sandwich.
:P
Okay okay, I fail it.
Call Larry Ellison - it's a network computer!