The last job I had where food theft was an issue had pretty well entrenched racism. All I had to do was bring in Indian or Chinese food and the people who were inclined to steal food left mine alone. I still remember one woman complaining about my Tandoori Chicken by using a racial slur for someone of Chinese descent. She pretty much grouped all of ( Read more... )

I'm on the Computerworld.com mailing list, and today received the following:

Ethically dicey situations
IT staffers often see personal and private information as they go about fixing computers or moving digital data as part of their jobs. Computerworld is working on a story about IT and ethics. We're looking for real-life stories in which an IT ( Read more... )

Oh Lordie, oh lordie ( Read more... )

I used to be the ONLY member of Customer Service at my present job ( Read more... )

Accounting screwed up, and almost cost us the domain name that runs all our student logins, the report system, the exam system and several support functions ( Read more... )

OK, here's the deal.

Those of you who read my last post will know that the company has reason to lock down on network traffic ( Read more... )

Note, this was written last week, but I haven't had a chance to post it until now.

On my kitchen counter is a tray of cookies from the grocery store.

I got them from work, the leftovers from an "End of employment party."
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Good Friday. It's an important day in Christianity, the day that Christ was betrayed by Judas, and Crucified by the Romans ( Read more... )

It has gotten warm enough in the office for people to open the windows ( Read more... )

We are a distance learning company, and every so often one of the larger potential clients sends in a security survey that we have to fill out to move forward with with negotiations ( Read more... )