[email protected] writes: > Only one week? that must be in the US. Here in Europe it is mostly at > least 2 weeks. That requires you to document your stuff so that > someone else can fix any problems that may arise with your products > while your are away. Scary thought - maybe they actually can do > without you after all?
at least early 80s, insider fraud was most common ... even after internet and poor internet attack countermeasures ... insider fraud actually very high on the list. multi-party operations were/are countermeasure to insider fraud. collusion then is/was response by crooks. staggered vacations then are a countermeasure to collusion ... periodically mixing up those required for multi-party operations. In the past, I've had discussions with the NIST role-based-access (RBAC) guys ... that one of the objectives of RBAC is to simplify permissions for establishing multi-party operations (i.e. working out permissions so that no single person has sufficient permissions to complete operation on their own). http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/rbac/ somewhat back to early thread http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#16 Work long hours (Was Re: Pissing contest(s)) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#25 Work long hours (Was Re: Pissing contest(s)) in the 80s, i did one summer teaching classes and giving lectures around europe, including classes south of paris (joan of arc home town). Required French worker vacation was 5weeks but IBM gave 6weeks. That summer, France increased mandated vacation to 6weeks ... and there were various work incidents because some felt then IBM should increase its vacation to 7weeks (so IBMers would still have one week more than everybody else). I would come in an hr or two early and stay for a couple hrs after the class ... using online connection & email back to the states. I then asked site manager for weekend access. He explained that the guards had filed written paper work with the government that somebody was working more than 8hrs/day ... and he had to respond with lots more gov. paperwork. He said that I could have weekend access if I really wanted ... but it would be much simpler if I just spent the weekend sight seeing. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
