Almost Half of Workplace IT Admit to Spying on Workers

We had this happen to us at Dow Chemical. Many people were fired and many more were given days off without pay ranging from 1 day to several days. I for one was accused of sending two jokes, at around 1 AM. One joke I had never seen before and the other was so old and I had never seen it on my work computer. Yes I had send jokes but not the ones that they accused me of. I know that they can put stuff on your computer that you never had, set you up if you know what I mean. Whenever we had a major problem with our computers, we could call a 800 number which hooked us up with someone in Colorado. That person could take control of your computer and download or move and do many other things with the computer while you sat there watching everything happen and not even touch the computer! Of course they deny everything. But when the company allowed a safety person to show/send to everyone a picture of severed fingers as a warning to be aware of what you are doing, and an employee shared this with someone in another building he was given time off for it. And when everyone went looking for this picture, it suddenly disappeared from everyones computer........amazing!

I got fired from a job of over 10 years due to some moron in IT that I rejected for a date and he dug into my emails and online activity, both at home and work (I did them all on breaks and lunch) and he turned it all into the company.

I am glad now, since I hated the place and love my new life but at the time I was pissed

Just too many slackers at work anymore. Everyone thinks they are entitled to doing their personal stuff. I work in a pharmacy and this chick talks on her cell phone while customers are waiting for her. Whatever. She feels this is her right since she says she doesn't have time to talk after work!!!! Lazy Spoiled Americans we are. Most of us don't really know what hard work is.

One neat way of getting around snoopers is put bogus info in your profile. I used to do that before I retired. It drives the snoopers crazy. For instance, put an incorrect digit in your phone number. If management questions you on the digit, just say you must have fatfingured the entry, similar to the way I just misspelled "fatfingered".

1Kay said 8:13AM on 7-10-2010

Enough already, tell us a good joke!

1Kay said 8:13AM on 7-10-2010
Enough already, tell us a good joke.

Spy on me? Hack into my private work? In the trade this calls for lex talionus

King David, that is a juvenile comment. I sincerely hope that you are not over 23 years old, to think that is a real solution. If not, I think it's about time you considered quitting your postal worker job and found something more befitting of your mentality. Oh wait, that is postal worker mentality. I just hope you are not MY postal carrier. That .357 could take out my entire family.

The corp I work for says, up front, "These are our computers and our network and we will monitor everything that you do". Don't do anything on your work computer that you wouldn't want others to see and it isn't a problem.

To David King # 12....I understand you thinking your post is about "humor", but...I truley hope you don't "boast, brag, open your mouth" too many times that someone doesn't want to see whatcha" got big man. If you are telling the world, you have a gun, license, I do hope you know how to use it, GUNS are not jokes! Yes, I am a gun supporter, BUT not in a humorus way. Grow up, keep your mouth shut & mind your own business.

King David, just so you know, where I work, nearly everyone is licensed to carry concealed and it's probably a good thing that the public doesn't know the percentage of our employees who are medicated. It doesn't stop the IT spying. The spyware recently added to our computers has slowed us down to the point that we're actually asking for alternate spyware so why can maintain productivity.
The big things are, don't ever do home computer stuff on your work computer, and keep in mind that even basic IT abilities allow them to track exactly when you log on and when you log off.So your employer not only is aware of what you are doing, but when you are doing it.
Use this to your advantage. I was capable of proving that my supervisor was incorrect and that I was logging far more time than he was claiming by simply requesting a check of the computer data.

When I worked at the child support office our bosses could read all our e-mails, IM's between us and other workers, and could pick up their phone and listen to our phone conversations. Oh yeah, they could even find out how many clisks we had on our keyboard throughtout the day. It was horrible. I did my job and didn't goof off. One co-worker and I used to eat lunch together all the time and I'm IM her and say what do you want each day and got told about that because it wasn't work related. There is no privacy anymore.

To Crabbo - You are correct, I do not know anything about a .357. Thank you for setting me straight! It is a relief to know that particular firearm could not actually take out my whole family!

I like King Davids humor. Zoe Q lighten up!

This is terrible. This type of mess makes HIPAA and any other programs aimed at keeping peoples' private medical information just about useless. Don't those IT people have anything better to do with their time? If not, then maybe the company/corporation should get rid of a few of them.