Re: OT: deciphering Google header information

"Mike Easter" <MikeE@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:469fddb0$0$97235
$892e7fe2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

[snip]

The stereotypical work situation is that the employee is behind the
firewall of the employer. The employee is using the employer's
hardware
and connectivity and the employer/employee relationship is that the
employer has put the newsgroups off-limits. The employee has hir 'own'
computer that other people aren't using from a privacy perspective, but
it isn't /really/ hirs but it is hirs from a privacy perspective --
unless the employer really wanted to get hardass about it.

So, what the employee is trying to do is 'get around' the employer's
restriction. That is actually not a healthy relationship in terms of
what is the employer's policy and what is the employee's
responsibilities.

I agree with what you're saying, but I've worked places where I was a
guru because I plugged a parallel printer into the right port. Let's face
it, it's pretty hard to get that wrong. One cable with two ends, one of
which is really obviously on the printer and the other has only one place
it can go on the back of the comuter. You have to really jam it in to
get it upside down. At that factory the IT (Microsoft small business
server) was, in theory, outsourced. Anything to do with the server was
referred to the suppliers, but everything else was referred to me, even
though the company had a very expensive support contract.

With a stupid boss I had a choice:

a) "I'm using Google to get information to solve the problem".

b) "I'd like to use Usenet news to get information to solve the problem.
Please tell the IT suppliers to unblock the ports on the firewall. No,
really, it won't make the system les secure. I need you to do that so I
can send posts out, and so that I can read the reples. No, it's not
realy like email. 'Public email' is a weak analogy, but there are lots of
differences. No, it's nothing like MSN messenger that your children use
all day - I won't be sitting there talking to people all day, I really do
want to just get an answer to this question and get back to my real work
- the work that you're going to ask about the lateness oftomorrow."

The stupid boss has heard of Google. Google is famous, and "we all use
computers at this factory all the time". 2003 and this boss is talking
about the "paperless office".


:-(
.

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