Comments on: Your boss is watching you

By: Bernard Girard

Bernard Girard — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:07:12 +0000

The monitoring of blogs reminds me of USSR. When you travelled alone in Russia in the late eighties, you had people writing in very large books all your moves : the town you came from, where you intended to go, your mean of transportationâ€¦ It was all handmade and I always wandedered : how can they use it? what can they do with it?

One could ask almost the same questions about monitoring employee’s blogs : how many people do you need to read all those blogs? for what purpose?

But, maybe nobody reads them. Just the idea of being (maybe) monitored is enough to prevent you from behaving badly (whatever that means).

By: annalee

annalee — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:17:43 +0000

They’re not being honest — most companies don’t tell their employees about surveillance.

FYI most “authorities” in US airports have no idea what your mother tongue is. I’m willing to bet that most of them think everybody from the Indian subcontinent speaks “Indian”. They’ll just hold you for being brown.

By: Ki

Ki — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:00:58 +0000

At least they’re honest. It’s possible my employers listen-in on this comment, but I’m more concerned with being held by the authorities for talking in my mother tongue at airports.

By: sysrick.com » links for 2006-10-04

sysrick.com » links for 2006-10-04 — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:20:26 +0000

[...] Your boss is watching you (tags: IT) [...]