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BullroarerT
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A friend of mine works for a very well known Fortune 500 company as a sales person working out of his home. His boss is on the other side of the country. He meets his performance goals and gets the maximum bonus every year. Yet, do they trust him?
Not really! His old company laptop started to die on him and the corp IT dept sent him a new laptop running Windows XP Pro. It's locked down so tight, he can't install the printer drivers for his own printer. His only printers that he can use are the printers 2500 miles away! Nothing he or his boss can do will change the corp IT dept's mind.
Part of this company is in DoD and other TS work, but his division is entirely civilian. I can understand the paranoia for the DoD side of the company, but there has to be some flexibility.
Also, he can't install any software, such as one that links Outlook to his company provided cell phone so that he can share phone numbers between devices. Talk about a waste of time keying in phone numbers twice. As a sales person, he has to keep track of hundreds on phone numbers and names.
I guess what I complaining about is the one size fits all mold, that the autocratic headquarters folks think will work in the field. If they actually tried to do a days work from their home, they'd realize that they need to trust their employees more and work with their employees. | |
vic102482
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join:2002-04-30
Upper Marlboro, MD
| said by BullroarerT  :
Part of this company is in DoD and other TS work, but his division is entirely civilian. I can understand the paranoia for the DoD side of the company, but there has to be some flexibility.
Also, he can't install any software, such as one that links Outlook to his company provided cell phone so that he can share phone numbers between devices. Talk about a waste of time keying in phone numbers twice. As a sales person, he has to keep track of hundreds on phone numbers and names.
Companies that do work with the DoD or really any government agencies have guidlines that they have to adhere to as far as IT and physical security. You cant just work for the DoD and be running win98 on all your machines.
Maybe that laptop is falling under that agreement, and thats why they refuse to budge.
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| said by vic102482 :
Companies that do work with the DoD or really any government agencies have guidlines that they have to adhere to as far as IT and physical security. You cant just work for the DoD and be running win98 on all your machines.
Maybe that laptop is falling under that agreement, and thats why they refuse to budge.
True enough, but no printer drivers when he's working 2500 MILES from the nearest printer? That's just common sense. They could at least install the drivers remotely if they felt the need for THAT much control...
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