IT Police, Any way around them?

[Sanjøy]

I work in an environment that is pretty locked down. I don't try to go round it even though I probably could after investing some time, doing so can and will incur wrath. That wrath is there to protect my Customers. Sounds dramatic but over the years I have seen big Customer impact due to hotmail accounts, USB drives, IDE drives all sorts. So many sites are compromised now that you don’t even know you are being fingered anymore. Nobody wants to be the next Sony.

In the olden days when people panicked and a porn site showed up or they were worried that someone swore in an external email I told them not to sweat it people were not monitoring it. Not anymore.

4G phone and tablet if I needs to watch an event or look at Facebook etc.

2p

[graeme]

As a child of IT, where the biggest work hazard is RSI from using a keyboard without a wrist-rest, I used to think the handrail thing was stupid litigation-driven, nanny-state nonsense, but it suddenly makes a lot more sense being in the oil and gas industry, where safety is cultural company-wide, and it's a bit easier to see why it's cultural. I doubt many who work offshore would complain about the handrail rules extending from platforms into the office if it helps ram the safety message home.

O&G, in my very limited experience, seems to be a pretty even split between highly intelligent engineers, and probably the biggest shower of useless cn*ts I've ever seen gathered together. Hundreds of them, thick as mince. Now, I hope I never set foot offshore because the North Sea is very cold and very deep and goes up and down a lot, and I get sea-sick on the Corran Ferry, and helicopters are insane inventions which don't float the right way up, and I like my server rooms to be air-conditioned, not salty, and most of all because I'm a big girl's blouse... But if I did go offshore, I'd be very happy to be working next to the dumbest guy on the platform, as long as he's the one who always holds the handrail and puts a lid on his coffee.

I still don't see many handrails being held in the O&G offices I've visited, but I don't hear many complaints about the rules existing either.

1p (I can't afford 2p because I won't go offshore)

[hendeg]

...probably the biggest shower of useless cn*ts I've ever seen gathered together. Hundreds of them, thick as mince. Now, I hope I never set foot offshore...

For your sake, I hope not either. Especially if any of them have just read this