Email to Rumblings (5/26/08 2:58 PM):
"We have been accessing Rumblings from our City computers and just last week they implemented a program that forced each user to sign on to it with our employee number and Novell password, one manager told us that it was to measure bandwidth usage and to use the Internet as usual but with discretion. Interesting...."Work Will Make You Free".
Rumblings had heard that an employee Internet usage program was being implemented, under the guise of "bandwidth monitoring", but had no confirmation until Mondays e-mail.
ITA management is rolling out their "snooping", floor by floor, segment by segment. However, don't expect a "team" Randi-gram e-mail before it rolls into your section.
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Anonymous said...This doesn't seem to be implemented yet on the 14th floor, though some other technical difficulties today suggested some trouble with domain name services (DNS). May 27, 2008 8:17 PM
Anonymous said...What this means, if you are at a workstation and use the browser, shut the browser down when you leave or whoever comes along next will be surfing on your dime. The sites that they visit will be credited to you. May 30, 2008 5:48 PM
Anonymous said...It's unfortunate that ITA staff wont get a chance to scream their concerns at Randi, like they did with the CityFone mug shot lunacy. Lack of transparency on this subject makes you have to wonder about the real agenda here. Word is, most ITA managers have not even been clued in. May 31, 2008 5:26 PM
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"Work Will Make You Free", indeed.
"Arbeit macht frei" is the German saying placed at the entrances to a number of Nazi concentration camps "
Motivating, isn't it? It's great ITA is making it's employees feel that way.
Equating internet usage monitoring by ITA management to Nazi propaganda is a bit harsh.
I guess we will all know soon enough how our fellow rumblers feel when this BS affects us.
This doesn't seem to be implemented
yet on the 14th floor, though some
other technical difficulties today
suggested some trouble with domain
name services (DNS).
What this means, if you are at a workstation and use the browser, shut the browser down when you leave or whoever comes along next will be surfing on your dime. The sites that they visit will be credited to you.
It's unfortunate that ITA staff wont get a chance to scream their concerns at Randi, like they did with the CityFone mug shot lunacy. Lack of transparency on this subject makes you have to wonder about the real agenda here. Word is, most ITA managers have not even been clued in.
As long as they still allow to read Mayor Sam! Cheers, and keep up the good work folks!
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