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Young Employees Pose Increasing Risk to Networks
buzzardsbay writes "Baseline is reporting on an upcoming survey from Symantec and Applied Research-West that confirms many suspicions about the generation gap in the workplace, namely that younger workers will use your corporate network to run most any device, technology or social networking software they can get their hands on. Dubbed "Millenials," these workers born after 1980 are nearly twice as likely to use cell phones and PDAs at work, and half admit to installing unauthorized software on their employer's computers. On the upside, the Millenials are more security aware than their older co-workers."
I'm not going to give a great deal of credit to someone who can't subtract 60 from 2008. Someone who is 60 now was 5 years old when rationing ended in this country. They would've gone to university in 1966, by which time the UK had certainly recovered from Nazi bombing and they would've enjoyed free higher education in a variety of universities.
This shows a profound ignorance of the subject at hand - the cost of going to university has been constantly increasing for as long as I can remember.
Except we are expected to sacrifice for our country. Pay for military adventures instead of health and education, suffer constant losses of liberty that affect the young and poor far more than the Daily Mail brigade. You don't have a clue about what is going on in the UK right now.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
Give me a break you old piece of shit. Everyone who says 'nobody gave me anything' and 'I worked my way up' is almost certainly lying their arse off. You also seem to think you know what experience I have but clearly you don't. I don't think it is that you aren't aware of the problems facing young people these days, you just don't care. All you care about is getting your own taxes down at the expense of those just started out. You are probably too stupid to compete on intellectual merit, so you and your ilk promote a system where young talented people can never get anywhere to threaten your cushy jobs. Cunt.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
I'm due to make something that will, rocket malfunctions notwithstanding, should be in orbit of the Earth by the end of 2009. What the fuck have you done with your life Mr. Anonymous Coward?
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
You obviously seem to believe (actually to be sure) that the problem is that I don't like the alternatives I'm given, instead of the possibility that the official, approved list, just doesn't have everything that is needed.
You call me a self important ass because I don't think it _possible_ to be a productive(*) Java programmer using only the JDK...obviously you must be a magician, or maybe you are less productive than you think you are.
(*) when compared to have someone with the same skill set and the proper tools.
Wow, 18 and you can already parrot the right wing media. I'm impressed.
People who complain about a lack of respect blissfully ignore the obvious question; why does society/older generation/police or whatever deserve your respect. I do not hand out my respect by default, it has to be fucking earned. The same is true for anyone.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
Getting the same as everyone else isn't a privilege dipshit.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
"Getting the same as everyone else isn't a privilege dipshit."
Is that really how you want to do this? You get proven wrong about your obvious feelings of entitlement, going so far as to give a textbook definition of entitlement in your post, and now you're going to take issue with what a "privilege" is.
I don't think you could have demonstrated that you're a petulant brat with an inflated sense of entitlement any more effectively if you tried.
Chat clients, especially Skype can bring more productive collaboration when used appropriately. How many times did you call some coworker just to find out they're in a meeting? How many times did you answer the phone for some absolutely irrelevant questions while you had urgent work to finish? How many times did you have to arrange a conference call with more than three individuals? How many times did you have a low-priority question that surely needed an answer in the next few hours but was not pressing enough to disturb anyone right with a phone call? - That's the times you need a chat software with the incoming message sound disabled.
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Media players and a pair of headphones: major productivity bonus at times. Especially when you have half a million employees in cubicles around you talking on the phone. Think of that "corporate accounts payable" from Office Space - no one would've gone crazy with some soothing music, right?
RSS: network security updates, current media topics may benefit your employer or you. They may also bring a decrease in useless websurfing while nothing new actually happened. Site updates and corporate IT can use RSS for their own good, replacing or enhancing message boards.
Weather update notifiers: take the bike to work and you need one, trust me. Productivity bonus for not getting a cold by escaping that upcoming rain.
Games: increases morale by building teams and informal friendships when used after work. Stumbling upon them during the day acts as an early warning indicator that your HR team or your staff have some serious issues. Productivity increase by making an example of the caught employee. Just kindding
Software for personal devices (iTunes etc): music, see above. Or sync the work schedule with a mobile device that the employee carries with them. Productivity increase through less missed deadlines and appointments.
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Personal freedom and economic productivity come together and leave together. Toiling slaves will take a nap the instant you look away while content workers will stay overtime when solving an interesting problem or the company has an immediate need. The good and the best employees are voluntarily with your company, anyways. And do you want the better share of employees or those that stay there because they have to (and will not get anything anywhere else)?
Since you're incapable of spelling the word "you", just fuck off, loser.