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Getting Around Those Stupid Rules at the Office Regarding Your Computer Use and Useages – Stupid Bosses
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Admit it: For many of us, our work computer is a home away from home.
It seems only fair, since our home computer is typically an office away from the office. So in between typing up reports and poring over spreadsheets, we use our office PCs to keep up with our lives. We do birthday shopping, check out funny clips on YouTube and catch up with friends by email or instant message.
And often it’s just easier to accomplish certain tasks using consumer technology than using the sometimes clunky office technology our company gives us — compare Gmail with a corporate email account.
Security expert Mark Lobel of PricewaterhouseCoopers describes the most common things employees do on the internet to jeopardize company security.
There’s only one problem with what we’re doing: Our employers sometimes don’t like it. Partly, they want us to work while we’re at work. And partly, they’re afraid that what we’re doing compromises the company’s computer network — putting the company at risk in a host of ways. So they’ve asked their information-technology departments to block us from bringing our home to work.
End of story? Not so fast. To find out whether it’s possible to get around the IT departments, we asked Web experts for some advice. Specifically, we asked them to find the top 10 secrets our IT departments don’t want us to know. How to surf to blocked sites without leaving any traces, for instance, or carry on instant-message chats without having to download software.
But, to keep everybody honest, we also turned to security pros to learn just what chances we take by doing an end run around the IT department.
For hacking advice, we asked Gina Trapani, editor of Lifehacker.com1, an online guide to being more productive on the Web; Leon Ho, editor of Lifehack.org2, a blog with a similar mission; and Mark Frauenfelder, founder of the wide-ranging blog BoingBoing.net3 and editor of the do-it-yourself technology magazine Make.
To find out the risks, we talked to three experts who make a living helping IT departments make the rules and track down the rogue employees who break them. They are: John Pironti, chief information risk strategist at Amsterdam-based IT-consulting firm Getronics NV; Mark Lobel, a security expert in PricewaterhouseCoopers’s advisory practice; and Craig Schmugar, a threat researcher at security-software maker McAfee Inc.
THE JOURNAL REPORT
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• Are tech departments withering away?5 We asked three experts from Accenture, American Express and Aetna to weigh in. Plus, join a discussion forum:6 How careful are you about your company’s security? And what are your biggest frustrations with your company’s IT department?
• See the complete Technology7 report.Here, then, are the 10 secrets your IT department doesn’t want you to know, the risks you’ll face if you use them — and tips about how to keep yourself (and your job) safe while you’re at it.
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1. HOW TO SEND GIANT FILES
The Problem: Everybody needs to email big files from time to time, everything from big marketing presentations to vacation photos. But if you send anything larger than a few megabytes, chances are you’ll get an email saying you’ve hit the company’s limit.
Companies cap the amount of data employees can send and store in email for a very simple reason: They want to avoid filling up their servers, and thus slowing them down, says messaging-research firm Osterman Research Inc., of Black Diamond, Wash. And getting your company to increase your email limit can be a convoluted process.
The Trick: Use online services such as YouSendIt Inc., SendThisFile Inc.
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Working for God- Working for Your Supervisor or Jerk Manager
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Working for God not only assures us of “employment” or “empolyability” or a “career” or better “carear” (as my friend Kirk refers and spells the subject) but of compensation as well. Few things take the steam out of us like the feeling that our efforts are not appreciated or that we are not appreciated or that we are being exploited on the job. Workers slough off, even sabotage the projects on which they are employed , when they sense that they are not being treated right and correctly.
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What difference does it make ? This one basic principle – that our work serves God – has staggering implications .For one , it means that we do not have time to waste that ninety thousand hours that we spend on the job. They count for eternity.
The fact that we work for god also means that we need never be truly “unemployed”. Though at various times in our lives we may be out of a job that so to speak pays the bills m God presents us with opportunities every day to help take care of his creations – whether it is spending time with the elderly , tutoring children with learning disabilities , or keeping the house clean for other working members of the family. Of course you do need a way to put food on the table and keep a roof over your head. But even while you are out of an economically rewarding job , serving God in other way can still life your spirits and preserve your self respect.
Working for God not only assures us of “employment” but of compensation as well. Few thing take the steam out of us like feeling that our efforts are not appreciated or that we are being exploited or abused on the job. Workers slough off, even sabotage the projects on which they are employed on , when they sense that they are not being treated correctly and well. Welcome to life.
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No matter how awful your boss is, at least he doesn’t chop off your head when you do something wrong. Nor does he ask you to wade through the sewers, handle entrails and offal, or stick your arm into the warm, cavernous bowels of large farm animals.
You think you have a heavy workload? Try working 16 hour days, 7 days a week, in a poorly ventilated factory. You’re not allowed any bathroom breaks, and if you make a mistake, you get fired. Which won’t really affect your standard of living, because your pay cheque consists of half a loaf of burnt bread. (If you’re really lucky).
Hate the fact that you spend so many hours on the road? Hey, at least you’re in a car. Not wandering dank forests on foot, constantly looking over your shoulder for traces of wild, hungry animals that want to devour you for dinner. And even though the office budgets mean that you have to fly economy, it’s still a heck of a lot better than the conditions of a sailing galley. You aren’t shackled to your seats, and no matter how bad the airline food is, at least it’s not infested with maggots. (Except of course on Karter Ultra-Budget Airlines – where they charge extra for the maggots).
Are you dealing with difficult co-workers, who refuse to follow your instructions and grumble when you ask them to meet deadlines? At least they’re not stoning you to death, feeding you to lions, or plotting with the people from the Accounting Department on how they can convince your boss to serve your head on a silver platter.
Retirement package not up to your standard? Be thankful you can even look forward to retirement. For some people, they’re lucky to be alive at the end of the day, what with charging bulls or the risk of falling four stories down a rickety chimney.
Your job isn’t as bad as you think. Not completely crap! There are many jobs out there that are much, much worse.
Some excuse that is.
Not unlike the old parable your father or grandmother told you of 10 people who cannot swim jump off a bridge into the river.
You cannot swim either – do you jump off the bridge like the other fools and malcontents ?>?
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Living so far from the garden of Eden, we easily forget God's garden. He has placed us here to take care of things for him, and when we work ( no matter where it is in God's great garden) we serve the Lord. The pay that we get , the system under which we operate , the kindness of our boss - those are incidentals. You should be glad that god gave you a job and your boss and supervisor. Gratitude for that boss or manager. The basic principle is that when you serve your boss at work you are serving Christ the Lord of the Universe
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The Eden and Origins of the Concept of Work and Employment
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Of course , you and I live a long way from Eden. Countless seasons have passed over the earth’s gardens, and we are generations removed from our first parents – Adam and Eve and our first bosses. Technology has given us complicated tools to replace the spade and the hoe. Work is now the devil. And the bosses and managers are stupid pricks. Many us of us work in concrete and asphalt cities away from the soil and the sun and the sod. We report to jerkoff supervisors and managers – all horribly mean and incompotent – save for a few. ” I am the manager “. ‘I am the Supervisor”, I am the Boss , I am the VP. Stupid fucking idiots.
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Work as A Curse Given by God ( Your Boss, Manager or Supervisor)
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The passage does not say that the nature of work was affected by the curse. After Adam sinned God said ” Cursed is the ground because of you : Through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life . It will produce thorns and thistles for you. and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will not eat your food until you return to the ground since you came from it. You were taken for dust you are and dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:17-19)
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Some believe the false notion that work is a curse. These workers or people fail to understand that the command to work was not only implicit in those first few instructions in God delegating his Godly authority to your boss , supervisor or manager in those first instructions on tending the Garden of Eden but also in God’s command for humankind to subdue the whole earth and take dominion over it ( Genesis 1:28)
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Work as A Curse Given by God ( Your Boss, Manager or Supervisor)
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Now it is true that the nature of work was affected by the curse. After Adam sinned , God ( your boss , supervisor or manager’s true appointer on this earth) said ” Cursed is the ground because of you. through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you , and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken : for dust you are and to dust you return” (genesis . 3:17-19)
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God could have made a garden that required no tending . He could of created a plastic paradise. Instead he made that plants that needed to be nutured , trimmed , trained and controlled. Clearly parts of God’s original design for work. Therefore when we work , we are following God’s plan. To put it another way God’s extension on this earth is your Boss, Supervisor or Stupid Manager. Your manager is God on this earth.
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” The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work and take care of it ” ( Genesis 2:15). Here at the very dawn of time , the dawn of mankind. before sin ever entered into the human experience , man was given work to do. And a boss of his work at that. In other words Adam had a job , and a boss. Apparently a very cushy job.
Clearly it was God’s original intention for us to have a job , and to have a boss or supervisor as well on the job.
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Let us go back to the very beginning. The case is a familiar one. “In the beginning God Created (Your Boss)” We see God himself at work creating the heavens ( and your head office) and the earth ( potential sales and mounds of idiot managers and bosses), all creatures great and small. Seven times during this account in Genesis Scripture emphasizes that God was pleased with his work ( but your demanding boss was not and never) “And God saw it was good” , even though his work was not directly spiritual in nature. As if to emphasize the work in creating the world, the second chapter of genesis begins with God resting. “By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing : so on the seventh day he rested from his work”
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Caste System in the Wide World Of The World of Work and Authority
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Women in India
Contrasts between women and men in India
About 1/3 of the households are run by women alone because the men left the women to work in the city. And by the way, when a man and a woman have the same job, the woman gets much less money than the man. One thing that is important, too is that 2/3 of the women in India can’t read and write, but on the contrary 2/3 of the men can read and write!
In the evening some women are not allowed to sleep before their husband or other men in the household. Unlike the women the men can leave their wife.
Burning Brides
In India sometimes women are burned if their parents didn’t pay enough dowry when the girl got married. This is often called a”kitchen accident”, in 99% of these “kitchen accidents” a woman is murdered. 4000 women are burned every year
Indian widows
If a husband dies, his widow is always guilty, even if the man was a few years older. If the widow hasn’t got a son, the indian people think that the widow must die, too, because they are useless. As a widow she isn’t allowed to wear jewellery and the red circle on their forehead is called the „Bindi”. The red painting is called the „Sindoor”. The „Mangrustra” is a golden bracelett, it’s like the wedding ring in europe. And, last but not least, the „Sati” this is when the women are burned when they are still alive.
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The marriage
The girls in India get married early. The parents of the girls want to get rid of them, so they start looking for a husband when she’s at the age of 8 years. They get married so early, because if they pass the teen ages it’s difficult to get them married. And one other reason is that the marriage costs much money. At the day of the marrige, most of the women see their husbands for the first time. When they get married the women have to promise to obey their husbands and take care of the parents in law. The main aim of the marriage is to get many sons because that is a blessing but getting many daughters is just like a curse. Many of the women are widowed early or they are singles because of their husbands who have deserted them.
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Unintentional daughters
The best gift in a marriage is to get many sons and no daughters, because in India people think that daughters bring bad luck and the parents of the girl are worried because they have to pay a high dowry to the parents in law when their daughter gets married. If the wife doesn’t get any babys, the husband can leave his wife. One important thing is that the people don’t have contraception or sex education like in Europe! They also have contraception like condoms and pills, but if a woman gets any pills from the doctor often the man uses them because he thinks that the pills are useless on a woman. Also if a woman is pregnant and she knows that the baby will be a daughter many have an abortion.
Statistics about women in India
Here you can see a diagram about the life expectancy in India and Germany. The life expectancy of women in India is much less than in Germany. In India most women die before the men.
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