::Rolls eyes::

[jecook]

This is the exact text of a message I just sent to the supervisor for one of the sites I support, her boss, and the rest of the IT department. I also left a message on the whiteboard in the office where the computer is located stating "Please *DO NOT* install AOL on the computer", and left a shattered AOL CD in a clear box taped up as a lesson...

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I removed AOL from the computer. Just as a reminder, [company] does not use AOL for *any* of it's sites. If you get a "free" AOL CD in the mail, please dispose of it. The AOL software is considered by the [company] IT department as "non-company software" and will be removed without notice if found on a system.

jecook
IT Systems Support
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[My work email]
xxx-xxx-xxxx x666 - office

[confidentiality notice removed]
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Ah, the joys of being a corporate IT worker slavedrone. At least I'm allowed to dictate policy if I'm in the right...


And I might be getting out of here. I'm waiting on a phone call...

Comments

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

i had someone doing the aol install on his work machine, back when 5.0 was new and shiny and DESTROYING WINDOWS. I removed it a couple times, he'd reinstall it. It finally came down to if he installed it again, he would be fired.

[wyrdrune.livejournal.com]

Now this is where I've cracked it. The users don't have rights to install software. It's enforced by Group Policy Objects, and thus is locked out that the OS level. I must actually take an AOL CD in one day and see how it behaves on my test machine.

Granted, it's a pain in the bum when one is installing legit. software that has a crappy installer that expects to be installed by the user who's going to be using it, but a few file permission tweaks usually gets round that.

Also, auto-run is disabled by GPO too, thus meaning they can't pull the "I just stick it in to see what files were on it" excuse.

[kayfox.livejournal.com]

Second Life!

*is Kyle Faulkland*

[jecook]

Heh. I have not been in there for almost a month and a half. WoW has taken all my otherwise free time, and frankly there's not a whole lot to do in there that I'm aware of.

Jim Lupis _does_ have a unique avatar, though.

*sing and swing*

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

thats the way, aha aha, i like it, aha aha!
thats the way, aha aha.... *G*
YES!! DOOM THE AOL!

Re: *sing and swing*

[jecook]

::dies laughing::

[klytus.livejournal.com]

I remember working at a company that had rather tight restrictions on what web-sites you could access. On a computer with AOL, however, if you opened AOL and used the web-browser inside AOL, the filtering did not work, and you could get ANYWHERE.