Ever thought it is possible that anything worse than the tax man exists? I found out yesterday that there is one thing lower than lobster excretions, worse than the tax man...
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Rants: January 2005 Archives
Everybody knows that SPAM caused the IT industry to respond with content filtering techniques and SPAM blocking techniques to help control this useless waste of bandwidth and irritation factor.
Same with large files. Bored employees are sending lots of 1MB+ mails containing the latest movie or powerpoint presentation of some joke. This obviously does not help the IT budget. So they either block certain content such as MPEG files or park them for late delivery.
What about employees visiting non-work related web sites? Surfing non-business related web sites wastes available bandwidth for important business related work. So IT departments block access to sites not deemed work related. And here I started discovering the first encounter what I now call "IT paranoia". At a large company I sometimes consult for, which houses easily a hundered developers - many of which write code in Java, I once tried to browse for information on one of the well known java sites. Their proxy server denied me access because it was non-business related. This impeded quite a bit on my productivity.
Then on another occasion I tried to send an email to one of their employees - whose surname is de Jesus. I said something to the lines of:
Dear Mr. De Jesus,...
I got a mail from their Mail Marshall telling me that the email was blocked due to bad language. And the word was "Jesus".
Then today, I sent an email to an employee of another company. My mail contained this:
... or something more kinky, at least ...
I got this response:
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I have just now received an SMS from Chas Everitt - the estate agency. But first some background. I recently (2 months ago) sold my old home and bought a new one. The old one I sold through Chass Everitt, the new one I bought directly from Urban Constructions - the developers.
Anyways, the SMS promoted a new townhouse for sale - as if I am interested!!!!! I mean - I just spend the most money I have ever spent on a new house - barely 2 months old, and now they want to sell another house to me? This is down right stupid, blind and irritating.
Sounds like a paradox? Nope - I don't think so. What does it really matter if you are brilliant at your work in the IT industry, specifically?
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