Amputated Communication Lines
Sep. 28th, 2006 12:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bethlakshmiMy work just cut off access to Gmail, LiveJournal, Tribe and several of the game sites that I occasionally vistited. While I cannot disagree that none of these domains related to work - they where things I accessed in my downtime from work. Particularly with Gmail and LJ - it was a way of keeping in contact with kith and kin throughout the day on an hourly basis.
I'm incredibly pissed off, and have been unable to express my pissiness having no lines of communication available to me. This is incredibly obnoxious. And it's part of a creeping tide of limitations on employee behavior that is growing and growing.
I'm pretty much done with this bullshit.
I had been posting under a filter to a limited set of friends that I had been doing a "Zen job search". I wasn't sure that I wanted to move, I liked my company OK, I just wanted to test the waters.
Now I'm sure. This is it. I'm moving on.
I understand the need to control attacks on a network. Particularly for a network that can handle sensitive data flows (although we have entirely offline networks for that). But it's getting ridiculous.
And it points out that it's more important to my company to Absolutely Control Everything Employees Do - and less about letting people have the flexibility to do go work and lead pleasant lives. I don't stop thinking about work problems when I go home, and I don't expect to be cut off from my major communication mechanisms when I'm at work.
In fact, before they cut off all ways to access work from home, I used to DO work at home, just like I did home at work. That's been over for months, due to other insane and ineffective virtual lan policies.
Ah well... time to get over it. I did a nice second interview at Cigital today. It's still a big change from what I'm used to, but I'm interested, and I'm beginning to think I need a big change.
Practical thought: If you need to contact me on short notice, try my cell phone number. I'll be trying to be more diligent about keeping it charged and nearby.
I could change to another email service - I've thought about that... but the thing is - eventually they'll lock everything out. Switching email doesn't change anything, it just delays the inevitable.
I'm incredibly pissed off, and have been unable to express my pissiness having no lines of communication available to me. This is incredibly obnoxious. And it's part of a creeping tide of limitations on employee behavior that is growing and growing.
I'm pretty much done with this bullshit.
I had been posting under a filter to a limited set of friends that I had been doing a "Zen job search". I wasn't sure that I wanted to move, I liked my company OK, I just wanted to test the waters.
Now I'm sure. This is it. I'm moving on.
I understand the need to control attacks on a network. Particularly for a network that can handle sensitive data flows (although we have entirely offline networks for that). But it's getting ridiculous.
And it points out that it's more important to my company to Absolutely Control Everything Employees Do - and less about letting people have the flexibility to do go work and lead pleasant lives. I don't stop thinking about work problems when I go home, and I don't expect to be cut off from my major communication mechanisms when I'm at work.
In fact, before they cut off all ways to access work from home, I used to DO work at home, just like I did home at work. That's been over for months, due to other insane and ineffective virtual lan policies.
Ah well... time to get over it. I did a nice second interview at Cigital today. It's still a big change from what I'm used to, but I'm interested, and I'm beginning to think I need a big change.
Practical thought: If you need to contact me on short notice, try my cell phone number. I'll be trying to be more diligent about keeping it charged and nearby.
I could change to another email service - I've thought about that... but the thing is - eventually they'll lock everything out. Switching email doesn't change anything, it just delays the inevitable.