PS - After Reading David post. Our work ethic is defiantly there, if you don't get your work done, you get axed. But you are also allowed to shoot Nerf Darts at the next cube over while surfing Facebook, as long as you get your work done.
Do I think there are times that people should stop screwing around and do stuff? Defiantly. Have I ever gone to work on a project to find out the person I need to talk to is out Skydiving with the CEO? Sure. But overall, I think we get more done because of our attitude and going to work everyday is defiantly an adventure, instead of going to a Dilbert like cube farm. J -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 7:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Time to relax content filters? I work for a large Internet Dot Com retailer, you would recognize the name, I guaranty it. We are in the Fortune 500. "We are a service company that just happens to sell......" Culture is our number one focus and we are asked to bend over for our customers and as an extension for other employees. Of course social media is a giant part of our company and employees are encouraged to twitter what they are doing at any moment, Facebook groups exist for each department, and the employee parades exist on YouTube. So the moral of this story is that slacking off at work does seem to pay off to a point, because sales are still going up. We work hard and we play hard and all employees are expected to give 110% 24/7. The call center is all Linux, but the rest of the company and the shipping warehouse is all Windows PC. These machines are all locked down to varying degrees, overall no one has local admin rights. I am surprised that we don't get more viruses than we do, but Symantec seems to keep us pretty well protected. The Macs in the company are pretty unregulated, cause "Mac's don't get Viruses" I am just waiting until the other shoe drops.... My worst nightmare is email... Holy Crap. Managements attitude is "Gmail has 500gb free storage per mailbox, we are a dot com, let our users have as much mail as they want, its only Disk Space" I have users w/ 20+ GB Exchange mailboxes. Over 2TB of mail for 450 or so users. No size sending limits either. I am constantly reminding people not to be emailing each other ISO's of movies. I often wish I could lock it down more. MP3's in your home drive = ehh not so Much. Mail Box Limits, 2gb, lean to delete stuff, the new beta version of twitter in your task bar - how about NO" The funny thing is overall, everything just works, the employees are happy, etc.. I bust my butt just to keep things working and I fear if I ever have to do a restore, but I am aware of the issues, and have made my management aware as well. A testament I think goes mostly to removing local admin rights and the power of positive thinking.. I hope some of this made sense... Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 5:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Time to relax content filters? Our users haven't had admin privs in about 6 years. The whining never completely stops. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Ziots, Edward <[email protected]> wrote: > I just tell them it isn't your computer as much as they want to think it is, > it's a company asset, which means they don't need admin rights to do there > work, nor are they getting them. I am still fighting this battle at my > workplace with some, but its getting easier over time... > > > > Z > > > > Edward Ziots > > Network Engineer > > Lifespan Organization > > MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + > > [email protected] > > Phone:401-639-3505 > > ________________________________ > > From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 6:49 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Time to relax content filters? > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
