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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."
This is the point in the conversation where I would break your nose if you weren't hiding behind internet anonymity. You are the kind of smug prick who accuses people of having an anger problem without regard to whether or not there is something to be angry about.
Yes, I am fucking angry. I have a fucking right to be. I am financially squeezed by a mindnumbingly selfish older generation, I have my civil liberties stripped in the name of their security, and I am told that I am spoilt and whiny if I raise even the slightest complaint about it. In such circumstances, it is good to be angry.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
The younger generation is spoiled.. If you can bring yourself to say "Fuck you" to someone of an elder generation then you're damn well spoiled. The younger generation is spoiled and has no respect anymore. That's the absolute truth.
And as far as starting at the bottom and all that.. I think more kids these days should start at the bottom and learn what it is to put in an honest days work.. funny that I say that and absolutely refuse to work retail or supermarket. My last supermarket job lasted 4 hours of training (I got paid for 8.. so, spoiled) and all of two days. (I laughed when they sent me a W2 for like $3.43)
My father got into the IT industry upwards of a decade ago now and he gets treated as shitty as the younger kids. Someone with 10+ years experience in the field for some big name companies and with all the pieces of paper saying he's capable of doing what his resume says he can.. and they still want to offer him $25-35,000 a year with crap long-term benefits like he's some fresh out of college A+ course grad. Fuck that.
For the record, I'm 18.. I think I've a unique perspective on the drawbacks of being a member of a younger generation. I've been saying for a while now, I was born 30 years too late. I shoulda went to high school with my father and his friends, haha.
"Fuck you baby boomer, you were the entitlement generation"
I see why you posted AC, you're a dumbass.
I was born in 1978, I'm fairly certain that makes me something other than a baby boomer. Any chance you'll reappear and admit you said something incredibly stupid? I'll wager money your loser AC ass doesn't show.
The previous generation had free education and healthcare paid for, mostly, by older taxpayers.
Does your ass hurt when you speak out of it so loudly? That is complete bullshit. You either know better and you're lying or you don't and prove the point that you're simply an "entitled" whiner.
I think you hit the nail right on the head here concerning age and risk aversive behavior. Younger people, especially males under 30, are always willing to take much more risks than anyone else. So you could do a study in any environment and come up with the result that the young whippersnappers are not following established procedure like the old folks do.
Many posters including myself missed this simple fact and concentrated on tech issues, pro's and con's instead of the blindingly obvious elephant in the room: young people, young men and risks. Young men will take risks just because they can, so T entire FA is moot, I think. Just wait two decades and today's millenials will wave manuals, proper procedures and committee decisions right in your face like the old dudes do now.
If that's good or bad, I don't want to decide, but at least it's a phenomenon observed in many ways.
Um, if you're responding to my post, could you try taking your meds first, then try again?
If you're not responding to me, then why are you responding to me?
I really don't see what your point is, since ll you did was throw out straw men (look it up, you have no idea what it means) and insult people.
Any chance you could try again and leave the logical fallacies, insults, and total lack of coherent thought out?
It didn't change my karma one bit. It did, however, reinforce how badly I got into your head. It must suck to know you can't out debate me and you can't mod me away, so you have to sit there in anonymous shame knowing I crushed you.