electronic isolation

[cellio]

Starting tomorrow, I will not be able to access personal email at work. Many web sites are blocked (including all known to offer email); LJ access is unknown. You should assume delays in responding to, or even seeing, email, interesting web sites, national news... If you have my cell-phone number, you can use that to reach me if it's time-sensitive. If you think you should have my cell-phone number and you don't, send me email (which will, err, be delayed, so don't wait until you need it).

Comments

[xthlcm.livejournal.com]

:(

That is above and beyond not-cool. I guess Viz has changed quite a lot since they were bought.

[cellio]

This is all coming from above. J and B fought it but lost in the end.

It is unfortunate for Viz -- by which I mean "our people", the team that works so well together -- that Google is opening a Pittsburgh office while our buyers are creating ill will. I fear that we're going to lose people to them and that the tipping point for the rest of us is low.

[mortuus.livejournal.com]

Annoying! A few months ago, they blocked a million things here, but then a couple weeks later, I suddenly had access to every site again. IT never announced why they dropped the firewall, and I certainly wasn't about to ask. Must have interfered with something command wanted.

Another reason for a laptop

[astroprisoner.livejournal.com]

I'm in the same situation at work. All personal e-mail sites are blocked, although LJ access is allowed. (Their concern is incoming e-mail attachments.) Many many many sites are firewalled as well, I'd venture to say that about half the things I click on here on LJ end up returning the "Access Denied" screen.

I'm lucky, though. In addition to my desktop, I was issued a laptop for travel. The laptop has a modem, and I can dial in through my office phone. Thus one more reason for having a laptop.

Re: Another reason for a laptop

[cellio]

At one point there was talk of giving some of us laptops as secondary machines (for travel, because sometimes you just need another CPU available, to support a different OS, etc), but it didn't happen.

That said, it might be a violation of their policy to connect a company laptop to a non-company network (like in a hotel) without specific permission and (unknown-to-me) precautions. Otherwise there's risk that you'll go off the network, get infected with something, and bring it back onto the company network.

Corporate overlorditis

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

How about smoke signals? Have they covered the windows?

Re: Corporate overlorditis

[cellio]

*laugh*

That does bring the risk of seeing Naked Guy in the apartment building next door (and believe me, this is a risk to us. not to him), but it could be worth pursuing. (Fortunately, Naked Guy eventually got the curtains clue. Or maybe we gave it to him; I'm not sure.)