I'm going to break rank and go with a musician. Slash in a word. His style of playing guitar is so precise. When asked recently about what...

Bob,

Enjoyed the link. The comments are even better. 😀

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On occasion I've restored Prod data to QA or Dev to troubleshoot a Prod issue. It would be useless if it was obfuscated. And because of that, I...

While I see benefits in security and controls inspired by SOX, it doesn't stop fraud instigated by upper management. All that is needed is a little collusion and its...

Circuit City - No longer exists. Interview for a developer position.

First mgr asked.......

If you were a color, what color would you be?

Another mgr asked......

If you were an operating system,...

If I've gone on interviews and been made an offer that I've decided to accept there is no reason to negotiate with my manager. For whatever reason I've decided...

Article is missing my favorite. "It can't be done." A.K.A "It's impossible." 😛

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In addition to strong passwords, at the application level, we practice fairly stringent segregation of duties. No one person can create a complete set of transactions of any type....

We had the same thing 20 years ago back in the Mainframe Stone Age. Only it was called Fast Action Response Team..... Seriously, FART.

Everything old is new again,...

I just felt bad for the HR person trying to pitch the corporate lie which she clearly didn't believe either but needed to keep her job. To her credit,...

I was once told by an HR person that competitor's salaries for IT had been reviewed and our company was well within the salary range. Nearly the entire IT...

I agree with most of the comments already submitted. One thing from my world, Bandwidth is watched closely here at work. Video, Podcasts, Music are against policy. ...

I applaud any company that takes interest in its employees, and the Stay Interview could be effective with proper oversite from a 3rd party or maybe HR.

At the...

At my current assignment, we require a service request be registered to do just about everything which sometimes includes changing data.

Personally, I backup the data I'm about to...

Slippery Slope I think.

Once you break out what each IT service costs, all it takes is a member of upper mgmt to say, "Look what were paying for <whatever service>....