sackem for using
@sbcglobal.net
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You will see more and more organizations that will have immediate termination clauses in employment contracts for using Skype on their corporate networks. I know we are considering it. Enforcement is not as hard as some might think.
When you have big clients who made you sign huge non-disclosure and data protection clauses in their contract, sacking someone for Skype is a cheap solution (when compared to possible leak of data and loss of business).
BTW, you can lock down systems all you want, when you have an office full of developers, there is always a way for them to make it work. So termination on the spot is the best solution. |
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AirGig
join:1999-11-21
New York, NY
| Wow, are your fellow employee's talents that generic and disposable!!? If they are, as your willingness to fire them indicates, what exactly is the uniqueness and value add that your company provides that someone else couldn't, it seems, so easily duplicate and put you out of a job?
Every business has particular needs specific to their size, operations and budget. An IT department's sole purpose is to find a way to implement money saving or revenue enhancing technologies. Smaller companies, without the means to implement and manage their own VOIP system, have rightfully recognized the many efficiency and economic benefits of using Skype to foster their communications, particularly internationally.
IT personnel, in companies of all sizes, should be asking themselves why aren't I implementing Skype or a similiar technology! (Skype provides a huge headstart because it has matured into a "platform" for which many independent developers are writing add-ons that further expand Skype's functionality and wide span of features.)
Skype uses a technique to support it's communication through firewalls. So what! (and thankfully, because who wants to maintain rules for VOIP - PITA!). Where is it definitively proven that it creates an exploitable, not just theoritical, vunlerability?
Meanwhile, Skype users enjoy the FREE use, savings, efficiencies, productivity gains and collaboration benefits, and be sure to check out all the other unique and innovative Skype Add-Ons for even more enhancement!
I have no ties, except as a user, to Skype or Yahoo. |
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kyramilan
join:2006-11-26
Pensacola, FL
| said by AirGig  :Smaller companies, without the means to implement and manage their own VOIP system, have rightfully recognized the many efficiency and economic benefits of using Skype to foster their communications, particularly internationally. I find small "businesses" that rely on Vonage, Sunrocket, Packet 8, any Net VOIP etc. for their communications to be quite humorous. That is like running a million dollar company on a Website hosted on a $10 a month plan. In fact, after hanging up, I usually laugh at them. It is funny they will pay us a fortune for our services but don't want real phone service. And, they boast about it: "I've got 3 VOIP providers," one said, "Just in case one goes down." ROFLMAO! |
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stufried
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join:2003-10-13 | reply to sackem for using
I have a zero tolerance for people who support zero tolerance policies. |
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Hack The Planet
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join:2006-08-28
Plattsburgh, NY
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said by sackem for using :
You will see more and more organizations that will have immediate termination clauses in employment contracts for using Skype on their corporate networks. I know we are considering it. Enforcement is not as hard as some might think.
When you have big clients who made you sign huge non-disclosure and data protection clauses in their contract, sacking someone for Skype is a cheap solution (when compared to possible leak of data and loss of business).
BTW, you can lock down systems all you want, when you have an office full of developers, there is always a way for them to make it work. So termination on the spot is the best solution.
Hello they could just as easily pick up a phone, save notes to a thumb drive, send an encrypted email, etc. Skype unfortunately is becoming the scape goat for unreliable workers who a morons! |
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claudeo
join:2000-02-23
Redmond, WA
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If you tell your employees that you don't trust them -- or you treat them that way in a more or less covert way that will inevitably be exposed -- , you get back exactly what you deserve. In any case say goodbye to innovation, creativity, commitment or genuine customer service, the *only* things that can save US jobs -- including your own -- in the face of offshore competition. |
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shamrin
join:2001-01-08
Lexington, KY
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You're just making that up. |
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