They’re watching.
By on Jun 2nd, 2006 at 8:58 pm
They’re watching.
“According to a new study, about a third of big companies in the United States and Britain hire employees to read and analyze outbound e-mail,” Reuters reports.
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Thats funny. I correspond with the Brits by email (cant make international phone calls) every single day at work. We must be boring our companies to death, all we do is compliment each other or talk about the weather. Cheers to one another is as good as it gets.
June 2nd, 2006 at 9:21 pmStill a 66.6% chance you won’t be watched.
June 2nd, 2006 at 9:22 pmWhen I worked for an extrememly large pharmaceutical company as a computer support tech, part of my job would entail getting all of an employee’s email and internet records off of the back up servers. It didn’t take me too long to figure out what was going on. If an employee was misbehaving in non-computer oriented ways, which were not severe enough to warrant firing, the company would fire them for computer abuse instead.
June 2nd, 2006 at 9:32 pmTruth was, every employee there could have been fired for the same reason…all 15,000 of them.
All in all, it was a fantastic company to work for, so they will remain nameless.
Yo, here in AZ, it’s a “right to work” state. You can be fired anytime, for any reason, or for no reason.
June 2nd, 2006 at 9:44 pmWe agree here in Illinois that we can be fired “at will”. We can also quit “at will”.
However there are still employment laws that override wrongful termination and there is a lawyer on every block that is willing to represent you in a lawsuit.
June 2nd, 2006 at 9:53 pmSURVEY
June 2nd, 2006 at 9:59 pmIF YOU WERE TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TODAY
WHAT WOULD BE YOUR FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS?
When I worked for an extrememly large pharmaceutical company as a computer support tech, part of my job would entail getting all of an employee’s email and internet records off of the back up servers.
Doing the IT work for a firm myself, part of the job entailed looking at network connections and traffic logs, alot of images, web pages, powerpoint, the database itself with customer info, went across the wires where I was stationed..
The most Ironic thing was that the person whom stood outside in the break area, and assumed the most ‘moral’ character was usually the same one with the more ‘loose’ character instead.
So if anyone tells you, in the office, that democrats, or Republicans are more or less relgious, moral, prone to drink, or smoke, or have affairs,than the other Political party, laugh him in the faceand say; ‘IT’ knows, and walk off. [B^)
June 2nd, 2006 at 10:19 pmIF YOU WERE TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TODAY
WHAT WOULD BE YOUR FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS?
Play Golf..wait I’d do a Photo-op, or Start Drinking
June 2nd, 2006 at 10:20 pmWhoever snoops on E-mail must be a low-life! Who would want a sleazy job like that? Makes me sick just to think about it!
June 2nd, 2006 at 11:07 pmHey if this place is gonna become the Soviet Union, I at least want better vodka!
June 2nd, 2006 at 11:14 pmIF YOU WERE TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TODAY
WHAT WOULD BE YOUR FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS?
No pardons and no plea bargains for Bush administration members. And drinking, definitely lots of drinking.
June 2nd, 2006 at 11:29 pm“Fear, Everythings’s fear!”
June 2nd, 2006 at 11:42 pmAnd so it came to be. The corporatists and capitilists have had their day–it’s so yesterday. I’m gonna look for Hugo Chevez on my ballot.
As somebody elequently said, it’s a common fear inducing tactic that is hardly EVER uniformily enforced. I believe it’s a fishing expedition, just to see if they can bag somebody that’s legalably canned, for breaking a company policey. It was templated by the Bu$h 43 administration, and has obviously worked beyond expectations, as the blackmailing of the other pols in D.C. have been beneficial for the neo-con Reichwing Juanta. (ism)
Thats funny. I correspond with the Brits by email (cant make international phone calls) every single day at work. We must be boring our companies to death, all we do is compliment each other or talk about the weather. Cheers to one another is as good as it gets.
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Plenty of apps to encrypt your email.. it will drive them nuts … they will start dreaming up terrorists comspiracies or the attack of the secret gay army.
June 2nd, 2006 at 11:42 pmNSA is filled with weirdos who like to listen to phone calls > I bet the zit-faced snoopers get hard-ons listening to sex calls! Some jobs are too sleazy to do at any price > reading others E-mails and listening secretly to private phone calls are 2 jobs that are disgusting!
June 2nd, 2006 at 11:44 pm#13 – Shhhhh, no one was supposed to know about the secret gay army…not until…you know…*wink wink*
June 2nd, 2006 at 11:46 pmIf anyone on here dates a NSA snooper > please kick them in the crotch or slap their face!
June 2nd, 2006 at 11:50 pmI got no problem here… it’s the company’s equipment, time, and bandwidth, so they can tell us how to use it or how not to use it. If cracking down on the costs associated with co-workers sending me funny videos or ‘Joke of the Day’ emails can keep the company in the black for another year, that sounds like good business to me.
However, this whole home phone/email eavesdropping is criminal.
June 3rd, 2006 at 12:40 amI am so glad I a: work for a small non-profit instead of a big company, and b: am married to the IT guy! All I have to really worry about is that he’ll see me buying his birthday present on Ebay…
June 3rd, 2006 at 12:54 amAnd if i were President…
June 3rd, 2006 at 12:56 amI would put George and the gang in Guantanamo, and treat them exactly as they are treating the current prisoners. It’s only fair.
not an open thread – too bad – that thinkfastpm was great for this – but i just found this, via crooksandliars and a liberal dose… a must see:
June 3rd, 2006 at 1:01 amRobert Newman’s History of Oil
45 minutes, the queen’s english, VERY entertaining and interesting…
you left-coasters will be awake for awhile, but i’m done…
enjoy – pass it around…
Wire tapping US citizens has got to be right down there with porta potty cleaners. Another shitty job…….If I was Prez, the first thing I would do is arrest the present administration, all of them for war crimes and no bail allowed because of the extent of attrosaties they have done…Next thing I would do is bring all our troops home from all over the world and close down all our foreign bases. Next I would ax all the foreign money we send to countries that are rich and hate us. The only foreign aid would be food and medical supplies to needy countries. Then I would make the house and senate go through all the dreadful bills that they have passed rewarding the oil Co’s Hmo’s and Pharmacuticals. Re instate the taxes, abolish the IRS and have a flat tax on all income. Well that would be on my first day. Day 2 get loaded and take a nap and get ready for day 3..LOL …..Blessings
June 3rd, 2006 at 1:15 amMy company can do what they want with my email, as it is business-related. But my home email is a whole different animal. If Big Brother starts snooping on my personal email address/account, that is breaking the law, and I would sue if I ever found out about it.
June 3rd, 2006 at 2:40 am#21- Sharon Cox for President!!! You’ve got my vote, I like your style!
June 3rd, 2006 at 4:32 amThank’s Cyra, ‘If only”, trouble is they have made such a mess I would need a week to fix most of it…LOL….Blessings
June 3rd, 2006 at 8:31 amwhy only go for impeachmeant…impalment is so more fitting now
June 3rd, 2006 at 9:44 amWhen I was working for a Fortune company in the top 150 that was the largest verticle telecommunication products manufacturer, the words that we typed on our computers were monitored and that was back in 1998. Since then, the company has split in two, but both are using data mining on employees as well as keeping a folder on each to search through. Surveillance by top companies have gone far beyond just monitoring e-mail.
June 3rd, 2006 at 10:06 am#22, Big Brother is not only monitoring your e-mail, it is keeping information on who you write to, just as it monitors phone calls to who you call. The creation of a matrix to identify association with terrorists is the reason given. I’ve even had my e-mail headers stripped after running a trace to the origins of some questionable mail I had been recieving. The entire system is set up to do this as the underlying structure of the Internet was created by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. All computers have a machine address code whose numbers are given out in lots to manufacturers of internet interface devices, handheld to mainframe. All computer electronic information can be traced through ARPNET. Telecommunications Protocol/Internet Protocol are just layers of information that must be associated to the MAC of your computer or any device that communicates through the internet.
June 3rd, 2006 at 10:16 amSURVEY
IF YOU WERE TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TODAY
WHAT WOULD BE YOUR FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS?
A big joint of skunk with manali cream and nepalise temple ball in the same joint
followed by restoring a more caring society to a needless society so theres no excuse for any violent crimes
June 3rd, 2006 at 11:03 amI live in the most spied on society on earth the UK.
I wish we took on the French and Dutch way and have websites on whats the best way to destroy a speed camera or to revolt against any goverment law we did not like BUT I dont so I just live in Hope the Liberal Democrats get into power and reverse the things Labour and the Tories have done
June 3rd, 2006 at 11:10 amSURVEY
IF YOU WERE TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TODAY
WHAT WOULD BE YOUR FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS?
1. Sign American involvement in the International Criminal Court into law and recommend the prosecution of GW Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, et al for crimes against humanity.
2. Begin a short-term (120 days) phased redeployment of American troops out of Iraq (leaving a small contingent of troops in Qatar or Kuwait)
3. Repeal the tax-breaks the current misadministration has given to the wealthiest in this country.
4. Repeal every subsidy the current administration has given to big businesses (particularly the oil cartels)
5. Repeal the “Clear Skies Initiative”, the “Protect America’s Forest Act” and all the other environmentally unsound legislation these bastards have passed.
6. Raise CAFE standards on all American-made motor vehicles to 35 MPG with a deadline of 2010 for compliance.
7. Fire every political hack at every agency which has been installed by this administration and rehire competent professionals who may not tell me what I want to hear but will always tell me the truth.
8. Immediately order the dismantling and defunding of any widespread blanket eavesdropping program being conducted on American citizens without proper Judicial authority…
I could go on and on! I don’t envy the next President of this country. Bush and his minions have created a mess unprecedented in the history of the world and it will take this nation decades to recover from it (and I don’t think we’ll ever recover fully). We must stop these bastards before it’s too late or none of us will be drinking vodka (as someone noted above), we’ll be drinking Victory Gin and the chocolate ration will be raised to 20 grams next week.
June 3rd, 2006 at 12:37 pm#24 – Sharon, I just got a picture of you in my mind of you grabbing two congressmen at a time by the ears and telling them exactly how things are gonna be “mom-style.” That’s great — I believe it would take you only a week!
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