sack in comment and analysis
Editor's Blog: Ever tried to sack a CIO?
Comment His claim: of all the senior managers in a business, the CIO is the least likely to get the sack. HR directors, of course, can be judged on the number of people they sack and the quantities of pointless forms they manage to get staff to complete. [06 Mar 2008]
Freecycle Diaries: Serendipity at last
Comment Giving something useful to someone who genuinely wants it feels a little more personal than handing a sack of your stuff to an entrepreneurial stranger. In the final instalment of the Freecycle Diaries, Natasha Lomas clears a ragbag assortment of... [08 May 2007]
Freecycle Diaries: Anyone for tennis?
Comment Thinking 'MI5-style letter-drop', I name a spot behind a sack of unopened compost that's been languishing at the bottom of the fire-escape for years, adding that I'll put it in a brown envelope and tape the whole thing up in a plastic bag. [30 Apr 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.03.07
Round-Up You see, a press release which landed in the virtual mail sack this week has alerted us to just what a dangerous world we live in and what the intelligent person can do to mitigate the risks posed by avian flu and terrorists, in no particular order. [23 Mar 2007]
Devil's Advocate: ID cards won't stop terrorists
Comment Naturally, this is about as meaningful as grabbing a sack of coffee beans at the docks and proclaiming what its 'street value' will be after it turned up on the supermarket shelf as a jar of instant coffee. [12 Jul 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.05.05
Round-Up The email said: "Do the decent thing and sack Jack". "Are you thinking what we're thinking? Now, that really depends on whether you're thinking those crates of champagne were a big waste of money Mr Michael Howard. [06 May 2005]
Leader: Keep quiet about employee blogs
Leader For a company that makes a virtue of fighting censorship, to sack a man for a few barbed comments seems like overkill at best, and intellectual snobbery at worst. News that Waterstone's has sacked an employee over blogging isn't the first and is... [10 Jan 2005]
Boardroom Despatches: How the CIO differs from the traditional IT director
Comment It comes from an organisation fighting for survival, one where the former or current CIO has built a client-supplier relationship which is likely to end in the supplier getting the sack. Boy did I feel the wrath of some of the CIOs and other IT... [08 Dec 2004]
How Microsoft keeps its edge
Comment On the other end of the spectrum, Microsoft Bob was dumber than a sack of hammers and deserved every bit of ridicule hurled its way. Charles Cooper looks at how Redmond pulls off this feat. There's something about the slow-starter strategy that... [15 Oct 2004]
Leader: How do you value your laptop?
Leader Your boss won't sack you for getting your laptop stolen. A raft of laptop thefts and data breaches have hit the headlines in recent weeks - ranging from the IT security professional who works for Netegrity who left his laptop unguarded at the... [08 Oct 2004]
Security Q&A: Your questions answered (Part 1)
Comment You duly obliged with a virtual sack-full of emails. Last week we asked you to email us questions to put to our panel of security experts. The response was so overwhelming we've picked the best questions, put them to the panel and will be running... [04 Aug 2004]
Leader: Sort out your IT policy - how hard can it be?
Leader Similarly a company may try to sack an employee who spreads porn via the company email system, but if they've never actually been told not to then cue the inevitably successful unfair dismissal case. Like a frustrated parent telling their child to... [30 Apr 2004]
The silicon.com Yearly Round-Up 2002
Comment Kay gets a model of the Virgin Mary from Santa's sack as some consolation. The unworthy won't go away empty-handed: Santa will be on hand to pull suitable consolation prizes from his bulging sack. "The internet offers extensive knowledge, but it... [27 Dec 2002]
Trevor Luxton takes up the Claire Swire mantle - but don't sack him, not for that
Comment If you haven't heard about the City banker who shared a recent sexual 'exploit' with his friends via email - only to have the lewd tale forwarded on and on - where have you been? The silicon.com newsroom first received the Trevor Luxton email... [04 Oct 2002]
Porn in the workplace equals P45 in the pay packet
Comment It even looked for a minute like the Norton Rose employees were set for the sack until common sense prevailed. It turns out that looking at porn in the office and then emailing the video clips of THREE GIRL LIVE ACTION! [03 Sep 2002]
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