On 12/16/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 16/12/2007, geni <geniice(a)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?
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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]