On 2011-10-05 19:00, cctech-request at
classiccmp.org wrote:
Think of a rigid requirement of a specific mail
program, or other largely
interchangeable tool, as an asshole/not-asshole filter of employERs.
My employer (a community college system) uses Outhouse, and more than once
a week IT/helpdesk has to try again to explain phishing, and begging
people to not open attachments. People who pass on urban legends, as
"TRUE", get thanked by their colleagues, debunkers get chastised for
"being mean". Last week was the "cell phone DO NOT CALL". There is
a
concerted effort to AVOID compliance with the state mandate of teaching
"information competency".
Yesterday, we received a> MB email that consisted of a single sentence.
BUT, it was tilted a few degrees, and the signature was a different color.
One of our top administators, to send out that single sentence, had
created a Weird document, printed it out, SCANNED that, and sent it out as
an attachment to an email with a Subject: line of "FYI", and a message
body (other than the attachment), of "Open the attachment."
BTW, many years ago, they employed substantial additional temporary staff
to do scanning when they changed the OFFICIAL word processor from
WordPervert to Weird.
They tried to fire one of my colleagues for being a hoarder, and
retrieving working computer hardware from college dumpsters (including an
11/70, which was no longer in his office). They gave him 2 hours to get
what he could out of his [admittedly JAM-PACKED] office and then
dumpstered everything else that he hadn't stuffed into his car, including
NorthstarS, Sol, and a few more S100 machines.
I don't think that I can manage to avoid getting fired [for doing my job]
for another 3.64 semesters. Thursday, I gave copies to a student who
requested them, of the Grand Jury investigation into our administration
and the Accreditation Commissions' report when they placed our
accreditation "on probation".
You make it sound as if Dilbert is actually true... That level of
incompetence would be really hard to find over here.
/Jonas