I got nothing
Posted on November 21, 2005 - Filed Under Personal |
ere it is, almost 6:30 p.m. and I can’t think of anything to write.
I didn’t accomplish anything major this weekend. It felt good to take some time off.
I did find out that the pastor doesn’t want the second house. My real estate agent said that he thought that the pastor was a bit of a princess. I’m not sure but I think that’s gay jargon for "prissy". Tomorrow, I start posting ads around the workplace.
This morning, I arrived at work to discover an email from the Human Resources Department from where I work. In this email, it goes onto describe that some intelligent individual downloaded my name, social security number, address, date of birth, bank routing information . . . whatever else onto his laptop. At some "non work" location, this intelligent individual had the laptop stolen. They were warning me that my information was out for the public to see.
But it just wasn’t me. Oh no. A few 160,000 of my fellow employees are on this laptop.
I was pretty irate when I read that email. Some people in my area were beat red with anger and others were completely panicking.
While this intelligent individual received "corrective action", I’m sure his boss got an award for reporting the incident right away. This is the story with the "god old boy network" at my company. First we have all these ethics problems and now we have intelligent people taking my personal information outside the company.
I cannot even begin to discuss the outrage that I feel for the company in which I am employed. I can understand if someone hacked into the company’s mainframe and stole information. But this intelligent person put all my information onto a computer and left the safety of our network.
Yes I have taken care of all my credit stuff already. The credit agencies are already working on this issue.
But we can all rest easy tonight. No sensitive company information was on the computer. Thank God!! It’s nice to know that while someone will be applying for credit cards under my name, a stupid graph showing how many intelligent people have access to my information won’t be out for the public to see. Whew! I’ll sleep better knowing that!
He would be fired.
His boss would be fired.
His boss’ boss would be fired.
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