On 12/16/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/12/2007, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
A further complication is her initial employment by the agency. Understable that the foundation might have expected them to pick up any issues.
This happens quite a lot IME. I have gotten jobs where I was dealing with confidential personal information via an agency and no-one ever quite checked me. Most people are honest, so this hadn't led to problems before, but the boss blanched when I pointed out this minor hole in the security of their hiring arrangements ...
Heh. That reminds me of...
Mid 1974-1976 my dad worked as a consultant for a major major Republic of South Africa bank, training them to use their recently aqcuired mainframe computers. (perhaps best not to specify the bank or the make of computers)
One evening, leaving from work, he found he had left his car keys in the office... Then he noticed he had left the window to his first floor office room open for ventilation. Well, I'll let you in on a secret, my dad has a bit of a poor impulse control problem... So what he did was climb in through the window to collect his keys, so as to avoid having to bother the bank security folks for such a minor matter...
Nobody ever mentioned one word about his caper to him, he wasn't brought to the office of his boss to hear about the matter or anything, he wasn't admonished by the bank security to not do it again, or else.
What did happen though, was that all the lower story windows of the banks office building were installed with metal bars on the outside, the very following week. Pretty cool, huh?
-- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]