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Cisco VP To Memo Leaker: Finding You Now 'My Hobby'
netbuzz writes "A Cisco vice president, who happens to have been a CIA operations officer in the 1980s, believes that the employee who recently leaked an internal company memo to a blogger committed corporate treason and violated a 'family' trust. In an email sent to Cisco employees, the executive invites the anonymous leaker to come clean, concedes that's unlikely, and adds, 'so I will now make (finding) you my hobby. Ask around (and) you will find out that I like to work on my hobbies.' That email got leaked and published as well. The tempest was sparked by a series of stories in Network World examining a host of bidding and contract questions involving the California higher education system."
This is why VPs are overpaid children
I can definitely think of some better hobbies..
The email is a dead giveaway that they dont have shit on the person who leaked it. If I were the person that leaked it, I would be rejoicing right now.
I thought IronPort has a pre canned filter for "leaking memos". I could never fine tune that product though, apparently Cisco can't either.
If this guy had really been a good CIA ops officer, he would have said nothing until he knew who the leaker was.
I'd think his hobby would be more along the lines of "eating cake among other things."
Cisco firing and downsizing whenever they see fit? how does that fit into your dumbass view of:
"committed corporate treason and violated a 'family' trust. "?
Also, look up treason.
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Quinn then underscored his point in a second less widely-distributed memo, in which he added, "I'm all out of gum." Roddy Piper did not immediately return our calls for comment.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
I doubt Mike Quinn could find his own penis.
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.
Kind of creepy to hear of "ex" CIA officers in top Cisco positions... advertising this must do wonders for foreign (and domestic) sales...
And ah... continually beating wardrums about an issue which only *reminds* customers of cost issues with Cisco products and services is no winning proposition for Cisco either.
Film at 11.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Click link. See photo. Conclude guy is decidedly NOT Liam, and his hobbies are probably... illegal in most states.
I remembered nothing about this leaked memo, but now that someone's all angry about it, I'm going to go find out as much as possible. Thanks Cisco VP for helping me find some entertainment!
"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."
LOL! My thoughts exactly! Here is the quote for those unfamiliar with the movie Taken: "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you."
...or did he send a very slightly differently punctuated/spaced email to every employee, just to see which version ended up leaked? I'm pretty sure that's what Bruce Schneier would do.
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Typical corporate jackass. Trying to throw around his (considerable) weight with veiled threats. Yeah, donut boy, I'm sure the memo leaker is just quivering in his boots right about now. If you were a Cisco employee what would you be thinking right about now? I know what I'd be thinking. I'd be thinking I'm not going to work for an idiot like that. Maybe donut boy still thinks he's in the CIA. Maybe he gets off on stupid little power trips. Maybe his wife treats him like shit and the only way he can get back is to take it out on the people he works with. Maybe he's just a fucking loser.
And perhaps some day companies will learn that. http://www.inquisitr.com/283632/cisco-firing-1300-employees-2-of-global-workforce/
If you were to expose criminal activity, either negligence or malicious you SHOULD expect protection.
Its called being a wistleblower, and its very important.
both of which are generally seen as dangerous behavior by HR types, and policy manuals generally, like those in my outfit, add that such actions are subject to discipline up to and including termination.
make it your hobby, pinhead, to discover which dictionary definition of "termination" you are going to be facing.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
If this is the "leaked memo": http://www.bradreese.com/blog/11-1-2012.htm
well...it says nothing of any substance, and it looks generic enough that it was sent to the entire internal sales team, so there are hundreds if not thousands of people that could have "leaked it". But surely a Cisco VP knows that you can't send something to thousands of people and not expect it to be leaked.
Certainly doesn't seem like it's enough to make a VP get all worked up about.
I don't see anything in the memo that Cisco couldn't have published on their home page.
I doubt he was that good at it. Probably he was a manager at the CIA which means he needs help to find his own ass. There are plenty of talented people in Government service but almost none of them ever make it to management.
Uh.. this guy's a VP. You know, the class of people for whom macho outbursts like this are encouraged.
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it was me.
The head of Huawei use to be in the PLA...
The head of pretty much every major Chinese company was either in the PLA, still in the PLA, or related to a general in the PLA.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Given that wacky incident where Cisco instigated the arrest (in Canada) of a former executive who had the temerity to testify against them in an antitrust case, I'd bet that they have some nontrivial pull, and certainly don't seem to be afraid of using it.
we are ran by CIA operatives.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
When the torturers come home, feeling bigger than God after torturing Priests, Doctors and other authority figures, they may decide they are the correct people to run the place and put their other military or paramilitary skills to use to remove whoever they see as in their way. The French had that problem with people from their equivalent of the CIA that came back from Algeria and it culminated with an assassination attempt on the French President.
That is of course the extreme, but the "bigger than God" attitude can come through to a lesser extent to even those remote from extreme extralegal actions, which is why we get this idiot at Cisco pretending to be a gangster.
Europe puts their sociopaths in hospitals. The USA puts them in boardrooms..
There is a war going on for your mind.
A short list of his hobbies are: Water-boarding, fingernail pulling, testicular electrical shock, sodium pentathol injections, sleep depravation,
I want to preface by saying that I absolutely agree that this is harassment and threatening behaviour.
However, I can say with certaintly that HR does not care one single bit. HR really couldn't care either way on most issues. They do their job. That job is to protect the company and its higher ups.
If a low level employee sent this, then yes, absolutely, they'd be terminated.
Now, when a low level employee brings these concerns to HR, they'll be informed that it is not in fact threatening, but rather a reminder of company policies regardling leaks and an assurance from the VP that he personally takes those policies very seriously. Then she'll offer some candy from the bowl on her desk and ask you if you've remembered to signup for this weekend's company picnic.
Joy! Beautiful spark of the gods!
I work at a fairly large company, and when hiring, we check names and personal info against a database.
No, you don't.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
Unfortunately that was done by upping the BMI with jelly donuts. ;)
That would explain why he looks like a R.O.U.S.
Routers of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist....
The road to tyranny has always been paved with claims of necessity.
Which is an excellent reason to branch out into far more lucrative industries such as meth production and armed robbery.
Look I understand that certain convictions, not arrests, but actual convictions, should preclude employment in some fields but we've established a bizzaro-world society where trivial crimes become felonies. Peeing in the bushes = registered sex offender for life. WTF
So you have a secret blacklist, that is never verified, and never open for appeal? is that even legal?
As far as not hiring people who have been arrested, do you have any idea how easy it it to be arrested? one of my friends was put in handcuffs and thrown the the back of a police car, for nothing more serious than crossing the street when it said "don't walk"
If I knew your name and address, I could have you arrested right this minute. The arrest wouldn't stick, and I would be charged with filing a false report (if they caught me) but it would still show up as arrest for your on that precious blacklist, and you would be out of a job.
So it's true. Bad-ass lines from action movies really do sound asinine in real life. I'm sure the guy who leaked the memo is just pissing himself with fear. Er, I mean laughter. Pissing himself with laughter.
Chelloveck
I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.