Study Show Link Between IT Sabotage, Work Behavior 325
narramissic writes "According to recent research by the U.S. military and CERT, workers who sabotage corporate systems are almost always IT workers who are disgruntled, paranoid, generally show up late, argue with colleagues, and generally perform poorly."
Of course, the flip side (Score:4, Informative)
The flip side is that the fastest way for management to make a worker into someone who's disgruntled, paranoid, shows up late, argues all the time and performs poorly is to treat them like a potential problem. You're giving people privileged access, either you trust them and thus don't need to worry until after they start showing obvious signs, or you don't trust them in which case why are you giving them privileged access in the first place?
To be honest, I think if you have to worry about abuse of privileged access after termination then you have a more fundamental problem that no access-management system will solve. After all, if you can't trust someone to behave professionally after you've given them their 2-weeks' notice then what makes you think you can trust them to behave professionally before that?
Re:Yeah, so? (Score:2, Informative)
Theory "X" Lives... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Perhaps for some... (Score:3, Informative)
I'm the director of operations for our company and definately would not hire you with that attitude.
IT is NOT about University Degrees, sorry but 9 out of 10 people that go to college for this industry are the ones who don't belong here. Naturals are the best in this industry plain and simple, the kid who goes home every day and spends 6 hours a night learning on his own are the ones with the true talent that companies need to survive. A college kid can draw me a pretty diagram of a solution and slap a lot of fancy names to it but a natural will have already finished the project and gone back to playing quake and would just assume not be bothered.
Some people actually enjoy programming, yeah I know a shock, guess what there's people that work in factories that are happy too. Not everyone needs to be shooting for the managers job, hell that would be a bad move for most people out there. Management is good for people who are good managers. Good IT person is not necessarily a good IT Manager.
Thats great that you work for a fortune 1000, that is if you like that kind of job. I've worked in everything from small to fortune 500 companies, and frankly the best experiences we're to be had in the smaller organizations. Only 1 place in my life did I ever have a problem getting hired due to lack of a degree, Cintas wanted to hire me out of a contracting gig I was there on but couldn't because someone in HR demanded a college degree to do the job I'd been doing already for over 6 months. Funny how the kid without the degree is good enough to pay consulting hourly rates for but you won't hire on for less money as an employee, yeah thats bright thinking...
Things are no way near as cut and dry as you make them sound, everyone gets ahead in life in their own way, and each of us has a different idea of sucess. You're idea of sucess is to play corporate games to get to the top, many people in IT are just happy to work with the technology and enjoy programming, others just like the fact they can get away with more being in IT. I could care less how late a sysadmin is to work as long as everything is working, a good sysadmin shouldn't have to show up very often.
On the flip side... (Score:3, Informative)