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Well, I was curious enough, and now even the eye bleach isn't enough! It's the worst of the three, and you will lose any shreds of faith in humanity that you still had.
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In many countries his action would have been illegal and might yield even several years of prison.
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Ah yes, the email reading. In my country (Germany) it's illegal to read emails that are not directed to you. Of course, every sysadmin reads them. But that's the point: They can't do anything, that would get them into trouble. So just write a mail to a friend, wildy insulting the sysadmin. In the end state that you think he reads the mail, but can't do anything, then greet him. That will upset him, mine flipped me the bird; it was very statisfying (I should propably note that he was very incompetent).
P.S.: Only do this when you are certain that you will never, ever require any kind of service ever from him.
captcha: paint - yeah, he drank it
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For example, they drive on the left hand side of the road in the UK! Is it that unimaginable that other countries might have laws that restrict spying on employees?
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No need to watch the actual shit (pun intended). This vid, which is safe for work pretty much summarizes it :D
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I consulted for a consultancy (yeah, yeah, I know, I learned my lesson) whose email policy was simple: all emails to [email protected] went to a box perched besides a printer near the copy machines. A flunky printed your emails regularly, and handed you hardcopies. Outgoing mail from your fatfatia.com email were typed on the same, common box, by the flunky or yourself.
The same flunky copied sole proprietor Funny Fatfatia on all emails. Using, of course, hardcopies. Naturally, though, everyone in the office could also (and I assume did) read everyone else's mail. It was a smallish office.
This is how I learned not just that I would be canned, but why. Funny, who liked to work all at Fatfatia & Associates for 12+-hour days, was tired of paying me for all those pesky hours. The outgoing email offered the new worthy an hourly wage $5 greater than mine -- capped at 40 hours per week, additional hours uncompensated under the rubrick of 'training'.
The email trail made it clear the new worthy was an H1B case.
This may sound like a bad student film, but if anything, I am underplaying it.
For the record: if Funny offers to 'hire' you to Fatfatia, by all means take the job. Then, keep interviewing, admire the surreal surroundings until you get a better offer.
And if that H1B kid is still there (my guess? he was probably smart enough to get a job that paid for more than just some of the hours he put in), tender my sympathies. My parents are immigrants, and so it pisses me off perhaps more than most when someone takes advantage like that.
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Every time I look at our vpn(1) logs to find out why some collegue is unable to get in, I'm in a grey area ... of course, I can look at his/her logins, b/c (s)he asked me to, but what about all the others in the log?
In Germany, same as in most EU countries (I believe), you can't start any monitoring w/o the employees' representative(s) agreeing to it ... just putting it into the work contract means, I can sign it, start working, sue the company to stop the monitoring, and they can't even fire me for this ;-)
Having fun, Seb. (1) email, server, whatever logs ...
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France is one of those
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You piqued my curiosity, so I checked....
Caution -- www.badpuns.com actually exists and does what the name says.
:-O
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I think you're correct, but just a few observations shy of reality. You're totally ignoring the fact that people in general don't revolt against an abusive President, a bought-and-paid-for Congress, etc. Your ideals are nice, but seem to completely ignore the reality of how passive the American people has been.
And yes, I'm American.
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I'm surprised, though, that you didn't shop Funny to the Feds. This is a serious fine and possible jail time we're looking at, here. I'm sure replacing you in this way was legal, what with you being a contractor, but hiring an H1B on those terms most certainly was not. Clearly, the new guy is not being paid "the going rate." (And no, "training" would not be a valid excuse.)
Everybody would have won -- you, the H1B, all the anti-H1B whiners, and even Funny, who would learn the valuable lesson that, if you drop the soap in the communal showers, you don't bend down to pick it up.
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That's nothing, a friend of mine works for an Engineering firm that has all email forwarded to the receptionist, who then prints it off and puts it in the Presidents inbox who then reviews the email and approves it and then the receptionist puts it onto the desk of the Engineer. This comes from the same company that gives employees a ham as a Christmas bonus.
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Not so in the Philippines. Tech. Supports are recorded without their knowledge that a particular call is being recorded, thus no opportunity to inform the other person that his/her privacy has been violated as well. Tech Supports just get demerit counts during evaluation period on bad calls during tech assistance.
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In Australia I understand that you can read and block and store whatever you want, but you MUST inform the employees of the details.
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Good God what complete nonsense!
More BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome).
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Yeah Bush is quite the "dictator".
Except that he's unable to push anything into law because he's the President and not in Congress.
Except that he's out of office in 2008 and isn't dictator for life.
Yeah. Quite the "dictator". Frankly I don't care for Bush because of his position on illegal aliens. But people with advanced cases of Bush Derangement Syndrome just makes my skin crawl.
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I once had a senior manager that was technically savvy (had been head of IT for a few years). Every time he had some time on his hands he'd go snooping on the network, seeing what shares people had on their workstations. If he found a share he didn't approve of - say of music or movie clips - he'd come down to the 'perpetrators' desk and chew him out in front of everyone else. He once did that to one of the technicians who had just resigned. The man stood up, punched him over a desk and walked out.
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[quote user="FredSaw]I worry that my obviously USA speech, knowledge and culture would be associated with support for the Bush Regime.[/quote]Don't worry, at least two of those are so tiny it won't be a problem to hide them.
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All your mailboxes are belong to us.
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FredSaw is correct: The Republicans (with the support of the Democrats) have eliminated habeus corpus with the Military Commissions act of 2006.
They have also passed a law that gives the president control over the other branches of government in an "emergency" (where the emergency is determined by the president).
The president is calling himself a "unitary president", which is English for "Fuehrer" (as in Hitler). The "would-be dictator" description is accurate. Memomachine is an idiot.
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Does anyone know a way that I can determine if someone is getting copies of my emails? I am pretty sure this is happening but don't know how to detect it.
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Belgium for one. Email is considered private even on a corporate account and corporate machines etc.
Only under exceptional circumstances can a company go and check what emails are being sent like that, and only after advance warning.
Doing so by definition is a breach of Privacy law.