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Getting Company Owners To Follow Their Own Rules?
techmage writes "Recently we had an issue at our small company that resulted in the loss of a lot of important data. To prevent it from happening again, we created a company-wide policy that all computers would return to IT to have their contents backed up, and the computers would be formatted and reloaded for the next user. Consistently the owners of the company break this and other policies we set up to prevent data loss, theft, etc. How do I get through to the bosses that when they break with the policies, they are potentially shooting the company in the foot?"
Something tells me this password manager now holds more than 8 characters:
http://www.failcomputer.com/?p=114
Or some Swede technician finally got off his butt and rebooted the Amiga:
http://www.failcomputer.com/?p=90 /selfless self-linking
But I am the kind of person that does not allow others to walk over my rights.
Somebody trys to pull a fast one on me I will make sure they have to account for their actions.
Most people tearfully refer to "putting bread in the table" and other justifications that frankly sound hollow, since it is normally pure laziness.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Fuckin' hell McCarthy, the cold war's over. Give up with that tired old labelling anything that you are afraid of, or not in control of, as socialism.
The UK Labour party was taken over about 15 years ago by a bunch of free-marketeers, the kind of people that had been running Thatcher/Major and Reagan/Bush/Clinton's economic policies. Blair et. al recognised that the Labour party was support by large numbers of people who didn't understand politics, and would pretty much always support Labour no matter what (i.e. people who could be taken advantage of). At the same time they recognised that Labour as it was wasn't popular with big business, so they dropped a major part of the manifesto relating to workers, started calling themselves New Labour, and started telling businesses that they would be friendly towards them. They also carefully marketed themselves at the middle classes who had kept Thatcher and Major in power for years, even as there were riots over their party's taxation policies.
This paid off in 97 with a landslide victory for Labour, but a Labour that is actually centre right (kinda like the Democrats in the US). New Labour has even done things that the Tories rejected, like bringing in tuition fees for University students. Yes, our "socialist" government charge people for higher education!
As for the off-shoring, that is rampant all across the first world, and America certainly isn't an exception. How is manufacturing industry in the US these days?
The irony is though, the kind of people who bitch about losing work to foreign countries often support politicians on the right. And it is the rich right-wing business owners who invariably want to lower their business' operational costs who do most of the off shoring in the first place!