Monday, February 13, 2006

I thought it was bad when...

one of my past employers (in the private sector)tracked us through our key cards. I know that this is not an uncommon thing to use to track when employees get to work and to keep things "secure", however, my former place of employment took it to a different level. You needed your key card to enter stairways, other parts of floors, and to enter off the elevator. But let's be honest here...when you work in a billable hour environment, the tracking becomes more of a financial issue than a security issue. For instance, "piggy-backing" was not allowed. And on our billable hours records we had to enter when we entered work. If you put a time that seemed a bit out of the ordinary, the security personal would check the camera footage and see when you really came in...creepy, huh?

Well, not as creepy as this.

2 Comments:

Blogger Liz[at]the315 said...

Wow, that is very creepy. I avoid pondering advancements in that area of technology because it is pretty disturbing... Reminds me of our ID card talk last class.

6:58 AM

 
Blogger katherine king said...

I definitely agree. Techological advancements are great, until you feel that they intrude upon your freedom and trust.

12:31 PM

 

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