"I will not lie, steal or cheat; nor tolerate amoung us anyone who does. Furthermore, I resolve to my duty and live honorably so help me god."
- If you don't know what this is, then please look it up. As for me, its not just an oath but a way of life. I live this phrase every day since I took it over 10 years ago.
That being said- If you live by the rule D.T.A. (Don't Trust Anyone), then you should not be in a management or more importantly a leadership position. It comes down to this- you have to believe that your subordinates will live honorably and do their job to the best of their abilities. We all know this isn't always the case, but you have to give them the trust they deserve as a human being, until they give you a legitimate reason not to trust. Once they give you that reason, than all gloves are off; but until then give them the benefit of the doubt. If you can't do that, then you should not be an employer an a managerial position.
This actually happened at a former company of mine. I was the Network Administrator and on more than one occasion I caught my Director of IT (Essentially the CTO for the company) accessing other personnel's mail including his staff, but most importantly other Senior Managers mail. He was given admin rights because he demanded them (And who was going to tell the highest in the chain no??? I tried, but was rejected) What he didn't realize was that I was able to look at the event logs and see when someone was accessing a mailbox that they were not the primary owner of.
As things worked out, we had a falling out due to his micro-management style, and I left the company never being comfortable knowing he was abusing his priveleges accessing other peoples email- among other things.
Great Point. I totally agree with you. But at the same time one of the protections of the constitution is "Freedom of Speech." To have someone censor another's thoughts on/. would be wrong. However, I do agree with you- having a bit of diversity in/. would be helpful. I offer my services, hell, maybe we should break off and create our own site. I've seen other former military personnel do it, http://www.edodo.org/ .
First off, your last comment: "After this, how could one have faith enough to serve an inept institution?" was offensive. It's not that they have faith to serve an institution- it's they have faith and beliefs that they are protecting something of the utmost importance- YOUR FREEDOM!!! Having served in the Air Force and done my time in the deserts of the Middle East, I know first hand what those guys are going through over there. For some ignorant fool as yourself to question their faith, dissappointing to say the least. They are over there giving their blood, sweat, tears, and families to protect your freedom & you don't even have the common decency to say thank you.
To get to the point of your story- yes there are protections put in place to defend information from falling into the wrong hands. But if you are an IT "Geek" you should know, the least secure of any point on a network is physical. If you can physically get access to data then that data can become vulnerable. Its not like you can let people see or copy data, but then wipe it from their minds, computers, etc. the second leave a restricted area. The government has their issues and it deals from the top down. But they need to hire more personnel in the concerned areas who know what they are doing.
Too many times did I run into civilian contractors on bases who hadn't a clue how to properly setup and maintain a network. I only wish I had the opportunity to right some of the wrongs I have seen- i.e. civilian contractors collecting in upwards of $200,000 a year to work in a "Hostile" environment; and all they are doing is collecting a pay check AND NOT completing the tasks they need to. I have seen this FIRST HAND while in the Middle East. The civilian IT staffs at most bases there were incompetent; but still they were collecting the big checks. But that Senior Airman going around showing them what is wrong with their networks and fixing their problems for them- he only makes $15,000 a year- AND he is going to hostile environments to do it. You tell me where the problem lies.... it lies in the hands of people like yourself who complain about the "Institution," but do nothing to change it; except maybe vote the person in who has changed our country over the bast 6 years. THANK YOU!
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"I will not lie, steal or cheat; nor tolerate amoung us anyone who does. Furthermore, I resolve to my duty and live honorably so help me god." - If you don't know what this is, then please look it up. As for me, its not just an oath but a way of life. I live this phrase every day since I took it over 10 years ago. That being said- If you live by the rule D.T.A. (Don't Trust Anyone), then you should not be in a management or more importantly a leadership position. It comes down to this- you have to believe that your subordinates will live honorably and do their job to the best of their abilities. We all know this isn't always the case, but you have to give them the trust they deserve as a human being, until they give you a legitimate reason not to trust. Once they give you that reason, than all gloves are off; but until then give them the benefit of the doubt. If you can't do that, then you should not be an employer an a managerial position.
This actually happened at a former company of mine. I was the Network Administrator and on more than one occasion I caught my Director of IT (Essentially the CTO for the company) accessing other personnel's mail including his staff, but most importantly other Senior Managers mail. He was given admin rights because he demanded them (And who was going to tell the highest in the chain no??? I tried, but was rejected) What he didn't realize was that I was able to look at the event logs and see when someone was accessing a mailbox that they were not the primary owner of.
As things worked out, we had a falling out due to his micro-management style, and I left the company never being comfortable knowing he was abusing his priveleges accessing other peoples email- among other things.
Great Point. I totally agree with you. But at the same time one of the protections of the constitution is "Freedom of Speech." To have someone censor another's thoughts on /. would be wrong. However, I do agree with you- having a bit of diversity in /. would be helpful. I offer my services, hell, maybe we should break off and create our own site. I've seen other former military personnel do it, http://www.edodo.org/ .
First off, your last comment: "After this, how could one have faith enough to serve an inept institution?" was offensive. It's not that they have faith to serve an institution- it's they have faith and beliefs that they are protecting something of the utmost importance- YOUR FREEDOM!!! Having served in the Air Force and done my time in the deserts of the Middle East, I know first hand what those guys are going through over there. For some ignorant fool as yourself to question their faith, dissappointing to say the least. They are over there giving their blood, sweat, tears, and families to protect your freedom & you don't even have the common decency to say thank you. To get to the point of your story- yes there are protections put in place to defend information from falling into the wrong hands. But if you are an IT "Geek" you should know, the least secure of any point on a network is physical. If you can physically get access to data then that data can become vulnerable. Its not like you can let people see or copy data, but then wipe it from their minds, computers, etc. the second leave a restricted area. The government has their issues and it deals from the top down. But they need to hire more personnel in the concerned areas who know what they are doing. Too many times did I run into civilian contractors on bases who hadn't a clue how to properly setup and maintain a network. I only wish I had the opportunity to right some of the wrongs I have seen- i.e. civilian contractors collecting in upwards of $200,000 a year to work in a "Hostile" environment; and all they are doing is collecting a pay check AND NOT completing the tasks they need to. I have seen this FIRST HAND while in the Middle East. The civilian IT staffs at most bases there were incompetent; but still they were collecting the big checks. But that Senior Airman going around showing them what is wrong with their networks and fixing their problems for them- he only makes $15,000 a year- AND he is going to hostile environments to do it. You tell me where the problem lies.... it lies in the hands of people like yourself who complain about the "Institution," but do nothing to change it; except maybe vote the person in who has changed our country over the bast 6 years. THANK YOU!