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New grimmer times at BDS
—not, for a change, aimed at me specifically, but a drag still: a few years ago we were issued ID cards with pictures, a magnetic strip stuffed with personal data, and an RFID chip. We've had to insert these into a card reader for access to our workstations; we will now be required to present them whenever we enter the building. Our comings and goings will be logged electronically: no more slouching in late and hungover for rc; no more sneaking out early now and again to avoid the mass transit crush. I confess that I have not taken my notional hours seriously for years: as long as I meet my deadlines, I feel that I have done all that conscience requires. Times past, this has kept me busy nights and weekends (in the early nineties I did one thirty-six hour "workday," although I confess to having dozed beneath a conference table between hours 22 and 25), but I have never begrudged that, and under former regimes management tacitly returned the courtesy. Not no more. Shucks.

Again, this was not aimed at me in particular, but it's going to land, and sting.

cordially,
New very odd that they havent done this years ago
I have been doing that at every workplace since the 1990's. Of course having a vpn to work from home and to be known for being reachable late in the evenings I was never questioned about my hours except once, and that was after I had given notice by the prick the notice was caused by.
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep
New also note the cac card isnt a company requirement but their employers
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep
New Any "work from home" options?
At least some days?

Or, are they that backwards?
Alex

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

-- Isaac Asimov
New Re: Any "work from home" options?
These options are more readily bestowed higher up the food chain here, but it's not unknown at my level. The nature of the work I notionally perform makes work-from home, even if only for a day or two a week, slightly impractical. Of considerably graver concern, given my increasingly precarious status here, is the political unfeasibility of work-from-home. As long as I'm part of the landscape, it appears to be taken for granted by my masters, who are not liberally bestowed with powers of imagination, that I belong here. If I became an intermittent presence, it might start processes running in their tiny minds...

cordially,
New So, absence DOES NOT make the heart grow fonder! :)
Oh, well.
Alex

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

-- Isaac Asimov
New just had a thought that might help
as a security guy, work arounds for badging always interest me. If your employer has any smokers, observe them. They hate to be dinged everytime they go for a cigarette and may know a few ways around same.
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep
     grimmer times at BDS - (rcareaga) - (6)
         very odd that they havent done this years ago - (boxley)
         also note the cac card isnt a company requirement but their employers -NT - (boxley)
         Any "work from home" options? - (a6l6e6x) - (2)
             Re: Any "work from home" options? - (rcareaga) - (1)
                 So, absence DOES NOT make the heart grow fonder! :) - (a6l6e6x)
         just had a thought that might help - (boxley)

At that very moment Mr. Softee rings his bell.
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