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The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08
Round-Up Essentially, the crux of the pinot noir-fuelled argument is that of all the senior managers in a business, the CIO is the least likely to get the sack. One executive claimed he was "burned" by widespread compatibility issues to such an extent that... [07 Mar 2008]
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]
MPs probe government over EDS
News MPs have asked the government whether they will sack EDS over continuing IT problems in the Child Support Agency (CSA). Earlier this year the CSA spent £11.5m in overtime costs after EDS installed a £450m computer system that MPs later said was an... [27 Oct 2005]
'Name and shame virus writers - even the kids,' says expert
News Rand said he would sack anybody "on the spot" if he found out they had been caught writing malicious code in the past. This week Sasser writer Sven Jaschan is on trial in Germany and while he is being tried as a minor because he was 17-years-old at... [06 Jul 2005]
Child porn downloads ignored by firms
News The survey of 200 UK IT managers by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) also found 38 per cent would not even discipline or sack an employee for downloading illegal pornography. But it has been a grey area for those monitoring networks who are... [11 May 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.05.05
Round-Up The email said: "Do the decent thing and sack Jack". One of the biggest topics for debate during this General Election - at least for those who were 'thinking what he was thinking' - was the issue of immigration and offshore and overseas workers. [06 May 2005]
Sacked Waterstone's blogger offered job back
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently published a guide for those blogging about their workplaces on how to avoid the sack. Gordon told silicon.com at the time he was "gobsmacked" to hear of his dismissal and described the action of his... [12 Apr 2005]
3GSM: Quotes of the week
News If you or your boss are up for a jail sentence, rather than the sack, for doing anything untoward with mobile email - as is now the case with some regulatory frameworks - then you will do anything to get it right. [18 Feb 2005]
CIO Jury: Govt IT failures - should heads roll?
News The widely held perception is that private sector organisations are more ruthless about accountability for botched projects than the private sector, as seen with MFI's recent decision to sack two of its directors after a multi-million pound supply... [03 Feb 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. Blogger Joe Gordon was fired for calling his boss 'evil' and referring to his... [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. A trite statement from Rene" was the feedback from another. [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. The product was a memory hog - and this back in 1993, when memory cost a bundle. [15 Oct 2004]
Leader: How do you value your laptop?
Leader Your boss won't sack you for getting your laptop stolen. To make matters worse for the Bedingfield family, but arguably better for the rest of us, news emerged earlier this week that Natasha's equally talented (read into that what you like) brother... [08 Oct 2004]
Security Q&A: Your questions answered (Part 1)
Comment You duly obliged with a virtual sack-full of emails. However, he is currently on bail and this would indicate that the reason behind his privacy was rather improper! The response was so overwhelming we've picked the best questions, put them to the... [04 Aug 2004]
Did Google sack exec for being too old?
News A former Google executive has filed an age discrimination suit against the Internet search engine, claiming that he was fired because he did not fit its youthful corporate culture. Reid, who is 54, contends that he was terminated from his position... [27 Jul 2004]
