[LINK] Work PCs

[Adam Todd]

At 09:16 PM 4/04/2007, Alastair Rankine wrote:
>On 02/04/2007, at 9:15 PM, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>I can give many, many more examples but I choose not to.

Mmmm.

>Speaking for myself, I have no idea what information I am going to
>need to research on the internet on a day to day basis. It could be
>some research paper, open source library, vendor documentation, user
>forum, news site, ... and yes even YouTube from time to time. So if
>*I* have no idea how to construct a whitelist for myself, how on
>earth are corporate IT going to do it?

There was a time when the Internet wasn't part of employees daily 
lives.  In fact there was a time when Internet wasn't a word known by more 
than 20,000 people in Australia.  I think that was around 1993.

Strangely the world didn't stop, nor did the economy.  Actually there was 
less fraud and less time wasted.  Communications was more person to person 
rather than CC lists by email.  Phones rang a lot more, and deals were made 
more personally.

But the times have a changed.  The problem is, people have too.  They 
believe more today than ever before, they are doing the Mystical Employer a 
favour by turning up for work.  They believe that the weekly deposit in 
their bank account is a pre-requisite for turning up to work the next 
week.  They believe that if they don't get paid, they can't turn up for 
work the following week, foolishly spending their pay cheque on silly 
things, rather than the travel costs necessary to turn up to work.  They 
also believe that a 10 minute smoko break every hour and 5 minute toilet 
breaks every 30 minutes are part of their wage package. Tis no wonder the 
Chinese labour market is cheap!

Internet is now a part of that mandatory expectation.

>If your employees are accessing inappropriate material at work you
>have a *management problem*, not a technology problem.

Actually, you have an employee problem.  Sack the employees and find people 
who want to do the job, not turn up to get paid and watch porn!