Re: [PLUG] that's nice

[Chad Waters via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

No one should ever have to get fired for doing things that
the OS allows them to do.  Instead, the OS should prevent
them from doing it.  True?

As we've learned to painfully in the past 4 years, manually
enforced rules and social conventions are very valuable for
cases where you can't possibly enforce all the rules so you
just have to rely on people to be honorable.  And have to
punish them harshly for breaking the rules.

But putting a few guardrails in place to make it easier for
them to stay on the straight and narrow is always a good
idea.  Especially when it's so easy to automate them.  And
when you do, the guardrails should be made of steel or
concrete, not tissue paper.  Agreed?


> I'd cancel your consulting
> contract if I found out you were doing it,

Yikes!  Even if I saved the company millions of dollars by
doing so?  I'm not sure I'd ever want to work for you...
Keep in mind that the last time I actually did this, it saved
weeks of development time, and got a critical product out
the door.  Because we met that deadline, my boss's boss
got his annual performance bonus, worth about 30% of
his total salary.  Probably over $60,000.  He was NOT
anxious to fire me.

Yeesh.. 

1)You found a work around

2)the sysadmins "didn't like it" and put in controls to prevent it

3) you then knowingly and intentionally circumvented those controls.

#3 is the concern. Admitting to it on a publicly indexed mailing list is ill advised as well.

 

 

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