Michael Gurstein wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Caughey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 12:39 PM
> Subject: <toc>-- It's Payback Time, commentary from Yahoo
[snip]
> > "I have been loyal to the company in good times and bad times for
> > over 30 years," read an anonymous note to the president of a New
> > Jersey-based chemical company. "I was expecting a member of top
> > management to come down from his ivory tower to face us with the
> > layoff announcement, rather than sending the kitchen supervisor with
> > guards to escort us off the premises like criminals. You will pay for
> > your senseless behavior."
> >
> > Pay they did: The downsized/right-sized/laid-off/fired ex-information
> > management systems manager deleted his former employer's inventory
> > and personnel files from the comfort of his newly unaffordable home,
> > causing estimated damages of up to $20 million. The sabotage was so
> > extensive that the company had to cancel its IPO.
[snip]
Q: WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE (above)?
A: This company did not have appropriate computer backup procedures.
No person should be able to do such massive damage from
their home computer, without physically entering a secure
building and physically destroying tapes or disks --
not even the "ex-information management systems manager".
The atmosphere in this company clearly did not conduce to
people really doing their jobs well, from way back. Because,
if it did, the "information management systems manager"
would have implemented such bullet-proof backup procedures
that, after he was fired, he would not even have
thought of trying to destroy data because he would have
known the worst he could do would be to make the innocent
tech support staff work an extra shift or two. This was
a chemical company, not an investment bank where
delaying operations for a few minutes can cost
billions of dollars.
I think it's sort of like the Submarine Greenville. I bet
the only time the officers on that ship ever
*really* got impressed about safety was after that
fishing boat turned up in an inopportune place.
The U.S. Navy should, from the get go, have made it clear
to everybody that safety was #1, and they should have explained
what that meant in terms that even a normal American
adult could understand: The Navy should have
given the example that pleasing important visitors on the
boat was about as important as choosing tapes for the
ship's recreation room tape library. --And it all starts in
childhood, with parents demanding to be lived and respected instead of
them demanding that their kids see them for who they
really are and only love or respect them if they deserve it
(see, e.g., Alice Miller: _Thou Shalt Not Be Aware_, _For Your
Own Good_).
+\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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