Well, certainly a dishonest company in any case is a bad thing. If there is a law on the book, as there is in my sector, that requires certain things of them, then there's not much you can complain about as far as the company goes, but complain all you want to your government representatives of course. And if there's NOT a law on the books but it's not an unreasonable request, as is the case I think in some sensitive positions, then so be it. But if the company is going to flat-out lie about the need, that's obviously a cause for concern, forget what the request was in the first place!
-- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Mon, December 13, 2004 8:50 am, Derek Broughton said: > On Sunday 12 December 2004 11:40, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: >> This might seem like an obvious comment, but this depends on what type >> of job it is. >> >> I work for one of the largest financial companies in the U.S. in the >> mutual fund sector. There are real, legitimate concerns with so much >> money involved. To me, asking for my fingerprints wasn't an outrageous >> request. I think I could have argued it was superfluous, but not >> unreasonable. > > In my case, I'm doing contract work for a federal (Canadian) government > department - nothing remotely sensitive, though there is a small amount of > confidential information, as there probably is in any IT position. I > didn't > have nearly as much problem with the demand for my fingerprints as their > insistence that federal law requires them to keep my fingerprints on file > after they've served their purpose (which it doesn't). > -- > derek > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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