Posted on 07/13/2005 by oaklander
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I used to work at a smaller company (200 people). It was in the very early dot com days before they had company internet policies. One day one of my friends was busted by the head of IT for looking at some questionable sites on his lunch hour. He was confronted by the IT head and the head of HR and they proceeded to show him graphs and charts of all the offensive sites he visted, when, for how long, etc... apparently they had been building the data on him. Before they left his office they gave him a stiff warning and the IT head very "high and mightily" told him that they would be continuing to monitor him blah blah blah... So after hearing about this I told my friend something I had been saving for a rainy day. I worked in IT and the IT head didn't know I knew, but one day I had stumbled across a personal site he had built and was housing on one of the company servers. It was built for a car racing team/group he was part of. It had a message board, document storage, multiple databases and tons and tons of pictures with his face in them. And I could see he had been updating it often during work hours. Very incriminating stuff. Anyway, I told my friend about it and everyday for a good week or two he would call this site up on his laptop, stick the laptop in his drawer, lock his office and leave. It was basically a big FU to the IT guy because now when HR monitored him and printed out their little charts they would see he was spending hours and hours on one certain personal site that just happened to be coming from their own internal domain and was full of pictures of the head of IT. Whooops!
My friend was happy to have the leverage...he never heard a peep out of either of them again and carried on his merry way.
Morale of the story? Keep an ace in your pocket...you never know when you might need it.
POST A COMMENTmegamania(07/13/2005)
you gotta know when to hold 'em...know when to fold 'em...!
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