So they figure they need to do something to get ahead financially.
Typically, when threatened with being laid off, fulltime employees will announced their intention to draw six months of unemployment benefits to take a vacation and then find a new job. My roommate did that following the dot com bust. He couldn't get back into the industry and took a cashier job with Walmart in 2002. He's still working there today.
The simple solution would be to ask management, "Do you want me to report this to the police are will you handle that?"
Management's response will be to point to policy and turn it over to HR and/or security to deal with. The illegal porn might be legit baby pics, parting gifts from spyware, something a previous user left behind, or the real thing. IT technicians are not trained to make that determination.
Your job rules can not take precedence over the law.
Job rules (policies) are written in accordance to the laws to protect everyone. As I pointed out to someone else, change the law and have IT technicians become mandated reporters. The law specifies that employers with mandated reporters must have employees sign legal statements and must provide appropriate training.
If the company has fulltime employees who have never worked with contractors, bringing in a team of contractors will make them feel insecure that the contractors might replace them. This often becomes a hostile work environment, especially if the contractors are being paid more. Fulltime employees who haven't been in the job market for 8+ years are most likely to have issues.
I had to clean up a network development lab one time. Because the engineers didn't have 15' cables to connect equipment in opposite rows, they used 100' cables with the excess going up into the overhead rack. That was a bear to pull out and replace with proper cables.
If that's the case, than I have committed multiple felonies over a twenty-year career. Every time pornography — leagal or not, it doesn't matter — pops up, my obligation as an IT technician is to report to management. Management reports it to HR and/or security. Once HR and/or security gets involved, everything becomes quiet. The only indication that any action got taken was that the employee no longer working for the company. No one outside of HR and/or security knows if the cops were called or the employee had his day in court. This is standard operating procedures for many businesses that do not have a "mandated reporting" requirement under the law.
At that price point, I'll buy an Intel CPU/motherboard combo. I'm looking for an updated AM3+ processor. Although I did hear rumors of an AM4 socket coming out this year.
You can be independent AND do long term contracts with mostly only 1 client if it is the Feds.
My two-hour investigative interview for my security clearance took four hours because I had to list every contract job that I had in last seven years. The interviewer thought it was weird that I had so many jobs after being out of work for two years and filing for Chapter Seven bankruptcy, especially when I worked a regular weekday job and a weekend job for two years. Staying at the same studio apartment for ten years instead of moving around every two to three years was also frowned upon.
When I worked as a lead video game tester, I was required to record a complete play through of the game on VHS tape. Normally, this would take eight hours. But the developers changed the next to last level prior to the final boss level that made it nearly impossible to go through without using any cheats. I flagged it. The developers didn't fixed it. I sent two video tapes to Sony with the eight hours of the complete play through and the eight hours of dying-and-reloading from save point for the next to last level. And then my boss yelled at me for not coming into work the next morning after working 40 hours straight to meet the code release deadline.
CS enrollments are at an all time high (just in time for grads to get out into the nonexistent job market...)
As the baby boomers retire over the next 20 years, there won't be enough skilled IT workers to fill all the positions available. That was forecasted back in 2000. I went back to school to learn computer programming and get my certifications during the dot com bust to prepare myself for this time. I'm making more money today than I was in 2000, and I expect to make a lot more money in the next 20 years before I retire.
I have heard tales from the elders of this "bo-nus."
When my father worked for three generations of owners of the same company for 50 years, he typically got a $500 bonus every Christmas. Of course, that was a different era.
I was making $120,000 back in 2000 - that's $165,000 in today's dollars.
Sixteen years ago was the run up to the dot com bust. I worked for a video game company that went on a M&A spree. The company realized after the bust that it paid two to four times what each company was actually worth. Easy money inflated a lot of things back then, including salaries and egos.
Find a job, and do whatever it takes to keep it. When you lose it, you'll never find another one [..]
That's funny. I was laid off my IT contract job because the Fortune 500 company wanted twice the performance for half the cost. I was out of work for two years (2009-2010), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month) and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy. For two years recruiters told me I was unemployable and hiring managers told me I was overqualified for minimum wage jobs. The day after my bankruptcy got finalized, I got a new full time job and been working steadily since then.
I then landed a very secure full time job where I am not really challenged and ended up taking about a 20% cut for that security. I am basically back to where I started before contract work.... but, I have serious job security, good retirement plan + matching, great health coverage, yearly raise + bonus, free metro transit and a bunch of other perks.
I've done I.T. support contracting for the last ten years. I currently have an IT job with the government on a contract that's funded for the next five years. So I'm going sit tight and earn my next round of certifications. If I was willing to get back into contracting, I could get an extra 40% in pay because many of the San Francisco hipsters are unwilling to commute more than 30 minutes away from the city and recruiters are having a hard time trying to find workers for southern Silicon Valley (San Jose, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale).
I think the message others and myself are trying to get across is that justice to work, we all need to participate, regardless of what you company HR dept thinks.
My coworker and I did exactly what we were supposed to do as IT technicians under the law. If you don't like the fact that we followed policy and the law, change the law and the policy will change.
These days I'm moving away from the cloud by storing my data on the local file server. The cloud requires an available connection to the Internet. Sometimes that connection is really fast or really slow on a good day.
And there are some Americans who'd call Australia socialist.
The US is turning into a police state. Every time someone gets upset that their neighbor is doing something good for the rest of the community, they call the police.in to criminalize the matter.
Private companies make policy only to protect their personal revenue (unless they are supplying to Govt and are then bound by their policies too).
Fortune 500 companies are often publicly held companies that are required to have policies in place for all kinds of stuff. The reporting structure is nearly identical between private and public sectors: the IT tech finds pornography and reports it to the IT director, who in turns reports it to HR and/or security. At that point, it's no longer an IT issue. The employee is quietly no longer employed. If the police were involved, HR, security and legal won't comment because of privacy laws.
What's not going to happen is a public humiliation with a perp walk by the police in front of the news media. Which is what I think a lot of people who accused me of committing a felony really want. This reminds of a radio talk show about a man who got more prison time for raping a dog than a child, where the parents and animal rights activists calling in were going after each other's throats.
Yet the guy that was fired is still free to roam and fund more child rape.
That may or may not be true. The police may have been involved. The guy may have gone to court. Just because the news media didn't pick up the story, doesn't mean that the guy isn't sitting in prison, on probation or found innocent. I don't know, as I was not directly involved in discovering the child pornography.
I hope you sleep well knowing that's ok because as long as an HR policy was followed, everything is alright.
I do sleep well at night. That's the whole point of having policies in place. If the system failed, it didn't fail in the I.T. department.
Ignorance of the law is not an excuse and yes you aided a felony.
Why don't you turn me in? I'll be more than happy to talk to police. I didn't do anything wrong by following hospital policies. I'm not a mandated reporter as required under the law. I've worked for several hospitals as an IT contractor. No hospital has ever informed me that I was a mandated reporter, required that I sign a statement that I was a mandated reporter and provided the training to be a mandated reporter as SPECIFIED BY THE LAW.
Windows does run on the ARM processor. Just Microsoft haven't figured out a way to do that successfully well. With a board like this, I could run a minimalist version of Linux, program in Python (my preferred programming language), and still have plenty of resources left over.
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So they figure they need to do something to get ahead financially.
Typically, when threatened with being laid off, fulltime employees will announced their intention to draw six months of unemployment benefits to take a vacation and then find a new job. My roommate did that following the dot com bust. He couldn't get back into the industry and took a cashier job with Walmart in 2002. He's still working there today.
The simple solution would be to ask management, "Do you want me to report this to the police are will you handle that?"
Management's response will be to point to policy and turn it over to HR and/or security to deal with. The illegal porn might be legit baby pics, parting gifts from spyware, something a previous user left behind, or the real thing. IT technicians are not trained to make that determination.
Your job rules can not take precedence over the law.
Job rules (policies) are written in accordance to the laws to protect everyone. As I pointed out to someone else, change the law and have IT technicians become mandated reporters. The law specifies that employers with mandated reporters must have employees sign legal statements and must provide appropriate training.
If the company has fulltime employees who have never worked with contractors, bringing in a team of contractors will make them feel insecure that the contractors might replace them. This often becomes a hostile work environment, especially if the contractors are being paid more. Fulltime employees who haven't been in the job market for 8+ years are most likely to have issues.
I had to clean up a network development lab one time. Because the engineers didn't have 15' cables to connect equipment in opposite rows, they used 100' cables with the excess going up into the overhead rack. That was a bear to pull out and replace with proper cables.
You took part in a coverup of a felony.
If that's the case, than I have committed multiple felonies over a twenty-year career. Every time pornography — leagal or not, it doesn't matter — pops up, my obligation as an IT technician is to report to management. Management reports it to HR and/or security. Once HR and/or security gets involved, everything becomes quiet. The only indication that any action got taken was that the employee no longer working for the company. No one outside of HR and/or security knows if the cops were called or the employee had his day in court. This is standard operating procedures for many businesses that do not have a "mandated reporting" requirement under the law.
At that price point, I'll buy an Intel CPU/motherboard combo. I'm looking for an updated AM3+ processor. Although I did hear rumors of an AM4 socket coming out this year.
Hey, AMD, show us your new CPUs for 2016. Everything you got now is long in the tooth.
Business plans are accidental?
Depends on whether or not coffee got spilled on the napkin.
You can be independent AND do long term contracts with mostly only 1 client if it is the Feds.
My two-hour investigative interview for my security clearance took four hours because I had to list every contract job that I had in last seven years. The interviewer thought it was weird that I had so many jobs after being out of work for two years and filing for Chapter Seven bankruptcy, especially when I worked a regular weekday job and a weekend job for two years. Staying at the same studio apartment for ten years instead of moving around every two to three years was also frowned upon.
When I worked as a lead video game tester, I was required to record a complete play through of the game on VHS tape. Normally, this would take eight hours. But the developers changed the next to last level prior to the final boss level that made it nearly impossible to go through without using any cheats. I flagged it. The developers didn't fixed it. I sent two video tapes to Sony with the eight hours of the complete play through and the eight hours of dying-and-reloading from save point for the next to last level. And then my boss yelled at me for not coming into work the next morning after working 40 hours straight to meet the code release deadline.
CS enrollments are at an all time high (just in time for grads to get out into the nonexistent job market...)
As the baby boomers retire over the next 20 years, there won't be enough skilled IT workers to fill all the positions available. That was forecasted back in 2000. I went back to school to learn computer programming and get my certifications during the dot com bust to prepare myself for this time. I'm making more money today than I was in 2000, and I expect to make a lot more money in the next 20 years before I retire.
I have heard tales from the elders of this "bo-nus."
When my father worked for three generations of owners of the same company for 50 years, he typically got a $500 bonus every Christmas. Of course, that was a different era.
I was making $120,000 back in 2000 - that's $165,000 in today's dollars.
Sixteen years ago was the run up to the dot com bust. I worked for a video game company that went on a M&A spree. The company realized after the bust that it paid two to four times what each company was actually worth. Easy money inflated a lot of things back then, including salaries and egos.
Find a job, and do whatever it takes to keep it. When you lose it, you'll never find another one [..]
That's funny. I was laid off my IT contract job because the Fortune 500 company wanted twice the performance for half the cost. I was out of work for two years (2009-2010), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month) and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy. For two years recruiters told me I was unemployable and hiring managers told me I was overqualified for minimum wage jobs. The day after my bankruptcy got finalized, I got a new full time job and been working steadily since then.
I then landed a very secure full time job where I am not really challenged and ended up taking about a 20% cut for that security. I am basically back to where I started before contract work.... but, I have serious job security, good retirement plan + matching, great health coverage, yearly raise + bonus, free metro transit and a bunch of other perks.
I've done I.T. support contracting for the last ten years. I currently have an IT job with the government on a contract that's funded for the next five years. So I'm going sit tight and earn my next round of certifications. If I was willing to get back into contracting, I could get an extra 40% in pay because many of the San Francisco hipsters are unwilling to commute more than 30 minutes away from the city and recruiters are having a hard time trying to find workers for southern Silicon Valley (San Jose, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale).
For the first time in eight years I got a Christmas bonus: a $25 gift card. Woo-hoo!
I think the message others and myself are trying to get across is that justice to work, we all need to participate, regardless of what you company HR dept thinks.
My coworker and I did exactly what we were supposed to do as IT technicians under the law. If you don't like the fact that we followed policy and the law, change the law and the policy will change.
These days I'm moving away from the cloud by storing my data on the local file server. The cloud requires an available connection to the Internet. Sometimes that connection is really fast or really slow on a good day.
And there are some Americans who'd call Australia socialist.
The US is turning into a police state. Every time someone gets upset that their neighbor is doing something good for the rest of the community, they call the police.in to criminalize the matter.
Private companies make policy only to protect their personal revenue (unless they are supplying to Govt and are then bound by their policies too).
Fortune 500 companies are often publicly held companies that are required to have policies in place for all kinds of stuff. The reporting structure is nearly identical between private and public sectors: the IT tech finds pornography and reports it to the IT director, who in turns reports it to HR and/or security. At that point, it's no longer an IT issue. The employee is quietly no longer employed. If the police were involved, HR, security and legal won't comment because of privacy laws.
What's not going to happen is a public humiliation with a perp walk by the police in front of the news media. Which is what I think a lot of people who accused me of committing a felony really want. This reminds of a radio talk show about a man who got more prison time for raping a dog than a child, where the parents and animal rights activists calling in were going after each other's throats.
Yet the guy that was fired is still free to roam and fund more child rape.
That may or may not be true. The police may have been involved. The guy may have gone to court. Just because the news media didn't pick up the story, doesn't mean that the guy isn't sitting in prison, on probation or found innocent. I don't know, as I was not directly involved in discovering the child pornography.
I hope you sleep well knowing that's ok because as long as an HR policy was followed, everything is alright.
I do sleep well at night. That's the whole point of having policies in place. If the system failed, it didn't fail in the I.T. department.
Ignorance of the law is not an excuse and yes you aided a felony.
Why don't you turn me in? I'll be more than happy to talk to police. I didn't do anything wrong by following hospital policies. I'm not a mandated reporter as required under the law. I've worked for several hospitals as an IT contractor. No hospital has ever informed me that I was a mandated reporter, required that I sign a statement that I was a mandated reporter and provided the training to be a mandated reporter as SPECIFIED BY THE LAW.
It's French. What did you expect?
Windows does run on the ARM processor. Just Microsoft haven't figured out a way to do that successfully well. With a board like this, I could run a minimalist version of Linux, program in Python (my preferred programming language), and still have plenty of resources left over.
Are you really this much of an asshole in real life?
Yes. Next question.