MP3 Police
Sep. 6th, 2006 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andygatesI hate being the dodgy-file police. It's the one bit of my job I really loathe, but hey, someone has to do it. It is sometimes made up for by the green-ink whiney spume of the complaining users, though:
"I commonly listen to music as I work, and the mp3 files are all legally owned by me and transcribed/downloaded in my own time at home. I had not regarded either storing MP3 files or listening to music in my office as any breach of any trust regulation. I was surprised at the impertinence of someone going through my documents some months ago without my knowledge and deleting all the mp3 files. I reloaded them in "my documents" to see how long it would take big brother to spy on me.
I am surprised and disappointed that my employer has the time to scan personal files and delete them in this fashion.
Thank you this time for at least having the courtesy to contact me this time. I will move them to the C drive. I only placed them on the Z drive again to test the system."
Let me see, had you not read the AUP? Of course not. Why should I care what you do at home? Why do you think that an administrative oversight is impertinent - if I'd failed to find kiddy porn you'd complain that I was being negligent. Do you think we actually care what's in your fileshare or that we're not bound by the same confidentiality agreements as you are? You're just whining and petulant because you've been caught. And you deliberately created more work for me, just because you're so fucking special. So here's what you can do, laughing boy: you can shut the hell up.
I'll write something more professional after lunch, but semantic analysis will reveal it to contain the same information.
"I commonly listen to music as I work, and the mp3 files are all legally owned by me and transcribed/downloaded in my own time at home. I had not regarded either storing MP3 files or listening to music in my office as any breach of any trust regulation. I was surprised at the impertinence of someone going through my documents some months ago without my knowledge and deleting all the mp3 files. I reloaded them in "my documents" to see how long it would take big brother to spy on me.
I am surprised and disappointed that my employer has the time to scan personal files and delete them in this fashion.
Thank you this time for at least having the courtesy to contact me this time. I will move them to the C drive. I only placed them on the Z drive again to test the system."
Let me see, had you not read the AUP? Of course not. Why should I care what you do at home? Why do you think that an administrative oversight is impertinent - if I'd failed to find kiddy porn you'd complain that I was being negligent. Do you think we actually care what's in your fileshare or that we're not bound by the same confidentiality agreements as you are? You're just whining and petulant because you've been caught. And you deliberately created more work for me, just because you're so fucking special. So here's what you can do, laughing boy: you can shut the hell up.
I'll write something more professional after lunch, but semantic analysis will reveal it to contain the same information.
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Date: 2006-09-07 01:28 pm (UTC)Suit yourself. But what is the purpose of having a policy book if you can't throw it at someone now and again?
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Date: 2006-09-07 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-07 05:45 pm (UTC)I am so emollient it hurts
Date: 2006-09-08 09:56 am (UTC)We routinely monitor usage of all Trust equipment for both legal (copyright, criminal material) and technical (excessive usage, etc) reasons. This is part of the standard diligence for any IT department: we'd be failing if we let a user copy so many DVDs to his share that it overloaded a server, or if we allowed a user to act in a manner which exposed the Trust to unnecesary risk. In the case of copyright, we run the risk of having the fileservers seized for examination and that is clearly not acceptable, so we police material such as audio and movie files.
Thank you for moving your files.
Hopefully he'll now feel like a tit. Ideally, like a right arse for being lumped in with the other people who get servers siezed - pervs and terr'sts. And no, I won't rise to the bait even if it takes me two days to regain my smooth. So neugh.