we want a balance between mercy and judgment. mercy rejoices against
judgment.
later this weekend i'll post a link here to a rant on this subject on my
homepage.
what am i saying? there's an old eagle's chart, something about an eagle
and a rabbit,
think it goes ' hope you both live to see the setting sun '
sometimes i'm the eagle. most times i'm the rabbit.
i refuse to read others email, because they might be (very justifiably)
complaining to my manager about me.
but, there are times when an admin has to go in and fix something.
we provide a level of service, where, let say that the winery up on the
mountain get's files too large for
me to ordinarily allow through. Dave the owner can just call one of us,
even at home, and we'll receive
it for him, (pre imail days) and open it, zip the attachment, or simply ftp
it to their website on our server, where they can dl it
at their leisure. now i just open up their attachment size setting on a
verbal from a customer for 24 hours then close it down
so that it remains only a 'once in a while thing' kind of value added
service.
what if i see what my uneducated eye sees something that i construe as
illegal activity from j_random_user?
then i go to management, because management has a shirt to lose in this, i'm
blameless and harmless from the activities of users because i'm not
empowered to allow or disallow. management drives my spec. not me.
socially speaking, at home, i NEVER call the law unless there is bloodshed
or fire.
if i can't resolve less than those two things on my own, then it's back to
kindergarten to learn social skills.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Demel
> >Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 11:31 AM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] A tricky moral problem
> >
> >
> >You know, at the risk of sounding like an ass, there is a simple
> >solution to
> >this "tricky moral problem." Stop reading people's friggin' email.
> >
> >It's a matter of respect.
> >
> >If there's a problem with a particular employee, and legitimate and
> >verifiable reasons exist to investigate that person's actions,
> >then fine -
> >look through their email as part of an investigation. Just don't do it
> >randomly and without reason. Have probable cause before you
> >start snooping
> >around.
> >
> >All this talk about who "owns" the systems and the data that gets
> >transferred through it is just a fascist smoke-screen. Show
> >your employees
> >some respect, and they'll be better employees than those
> >governed by fear.
> >
> >Just my 2 cents.
> >
> >-Jeff
> >
> >
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