Even IT techs think that "games make computers slower"

I'm an ex technical-manager for an IT co.....

If my client had told me one of my techs had done something like this... i would have dragged the little moron out by his ear and kicked him to the curb.
 
ToxicBunny said:
I'm an ex technical-manager for an IT co.....

If my client had told me one of my techs had done something like this... i would have dragged the little moron out by his ear and kicked him to the curb.
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Heh

Was an IT tech as well - and I just don't go around deleting stuff.
 
If I was the owner of that company I would congratulate the guy.
Why should people download stuff and put it on the PC?
Why should someone have VLC or anything else on their PC?
As for torrents - copyrighted material is likely to open the company
up to lawsuits and while RIAA does not have jurisdiction here,
we have a similar agency called RISA which is supported by the
same labels and pretty much does the same thing as RIAA.

You come to work to do work, if you have free time and want to play
games or listen to music, bring an iPod or a laptop; otherwise
get permission first from your boss. If the boss gave permission
for copyrighted material and various software packages to be
installed on that PC - sure - but if he/she did not - the IT
was perfectly correct to delete any unauthorised material
even if that material was unlikely to bog the system down.
It's common sense folks.
 
ToxicBunny said:
I'm an ex technical-manager for an IT co.....

If my client had told me one of my techs had done something like this... i would have dragged the little moron out by his ear and kicked him to the curb.
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If I was the owner of that company or an exec there I would have fired your a__ and given him your job. Deleting non-company related stuff from
company owned PCs will only boost productivity at the very least.
 
PeterCH : There are 2 or 3 sides to every story...

and as a manager I've found giving people a LITTLE bit of leeway, and letting them have music helps them be more productive.
 
PeterCH said:
If I was the owner of that company or an exec there I would have fired your a__ and given him your job. Deleting non-company related stuff from
company owned PCs will only boost productivity at the very least.
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well our corporate dev team play lan games during lunch and i am yet to see our productivity go down, in fact we are the most productive amongst the programmers there.

so far since i moved from the other dev team - i can say by doing the lunch time d!match its released a lot of stress and helps with team building. After lunch frag match/strategy we have cup of coffee and get back into the job - not half motors spinning but full force again.

i just don't like the empire earth ones we have, but at least we doing the regiment track now :P
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Necuno : Thats precisely the way I like to operate... make work fun and the workers reward it by working hard and wanting to be there...

Being a dragon and doing things like PeterCH advocates makes me arrive at 8, leave at 5... take my 1 hour lunch... and work about as little as I can get away with.
 
carderne said:
I expect normal, PC-illiterate people to think that games slow down computers and that LimeWire makes viruses, but an IT tech?
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You make it sound like those are mutually exclusive ... I've met many IT techs who are functionally PC illiterate.

Of course, being PC-literate but ignorant of common sense, company policies and personal privacy is quite possible...
 
And the decision is.... external IT tech has no right to uninstall / delete stuff that in no way affects or slows down printing ;)
 
No external IT Tech should be touching software on a client's pc without permission. If the internal tech isn't there, the external person should wait or call the internal tech. Not go ahead on his own.

I've had some tech's come in during my time at work here, installing printer drivers for demo printers, or a when installing an interactive whiteboard etc..

I always watch them, and log on for them when need be. Make sure they don't fiddle with what we have set up.

As for some tech's being near pc illiterate, I can attest to that. The guy at my work before me only took a hardware basics course, but got employed to handle Active Directory and Exchange and every other task in the school. He was like a fish out of water.
 
Necuno said:
well our corporate dev team play lan games during lunch and i am yet to see our productivity go down, in fact we are the most productive amongst the programmers there.

i just don't like the empire earth ones we have, but at least we doing the regiment track now :P
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Maybe your team is the exception to the rule?
 
ToxicBunny said:
PeterCH : There are 2 or 3 sides to every story...

and as a manager I've found giving people a LITTLE bit of leeway, and letting them have music helps them be more productive.
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You're threading on thin ice there. If you know about 'illegal' mp3s
and you tolerate them the RISA or whoever else could sue your
whole company. If I were you I'd get them to sign some sort
of waiver that these are songs which come from their own
CD collection or iTunes. Anyway that sounds strict but with
these RI**/MPAA clowns, you never know.
 
if the RIAA/MPAA sent my company a letter I'd throw it away....

They have no jurisdiction in this country.. period. The burden of proof is on THEM to prove they're illegal, not on me to prove they're legal.
 
Torrents :eek: on a work PC? I would be fired on the spot :p

Even me browsing and replying on this site right now is against the rules. I should be installing a few hundred PC's right now.

But fsk it :rolleyes: Im tired.
 
@ carderne

How did the tech get access to that pc? I mean, was it logged on already, did someone log on for him with admin type account etc?

I ask because a standard user shouldn't be able to remove programs or delete profiles in Documents and Settings.
 
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