Well, it's information

[sraun]

I have hints that I'm being kept on at McData. I'm assuming it is just for some of the integration period - one rumor (for which I have provenance, but no information on the reliability on one of the links) is that I will be kept for a month after the merger. There is another pointer to me being kept, but it has no duration information in it.

So, I'm still job-hunting. I may be around less on LJ - they monitor web, e-mail and IM "for appropriateness".

Comments

"They monitor web, e-mail and IM"

[mizzlaurajean.livejournal.com]

Seems to me that should be illegal.

Re: "They monitor web, e-mail and IM"

[sraun]

OK, I'll rephrase - they monitor all web, e-mail, and IM traffic through work servers "for appropriateness". Since most of my LJ time has been at work, I may have to either squeeze in time at home (unlikely) or cut back.

Re: "They monitor web, e-mail and IM"

[ellayn.livejournal.com]

It's not illegal, because you are using their equipment to do it.

It *is* scary, though. Not that I like any kind of monitoring, but my preferred type is where everything is just logged, and the logs checked ONLY if they have a reason to suspect something is not kosher. A coworker of my husband's was arrested on child pornography charges -- he was caught in a government sting, and his company turned the logs (and computer) over to the prosecuters.

One place where I worked set up monitoring software without telling anybody they were doing it. (I found out because I am one of those paranoid people who checked my background processes to shut off selected services, and had also cultivated friendships in the IT department.) The problem I had with this is that, doing it like that, they were TRYING to catch people being "bad." If they merely wanted to curtail personal activity on company time, they'd have announced that they were doing it (with or without actually installing the software).

Need I mention that I left the company shortly afterward?

[dlacey.livejournal.com]

I agree with mizzlaurajean. I'd understand somewhat if they monitored IM and email from work but what you do on your own time should be off-limits.

[sraun]

'At home' isn't the problem - most of my LJ time has been between calls at work. Since the home time to do LJ really isn't there, that means a likely cut-back in the amount of time I can spend on LJ.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Sending good thoughts on both fronts. The monitoring thing stinks, though I guess it's predictable.

Megaera

[jennlk]

I'll think good thoughts....

luck, and all that