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My work (school) is shut...
So I'm at home deciding what to do, where to go, where to take the sledge, cursing that I don't own skis.
Also no car as 4x4 confiscated by OH's work - hope it doesn't get stuck/ditched as it would be entertaining to be reliant on one of the local garage's courtesy cars! My MR2 is definitely grounded for a while...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| queen bodecia wrote: |
| Rob_Quads, yes, but none of that stops other people looking over your shoulder. Wouldn't be a problem for me as I live alone, but where would you draw the line? Remote access only available in a locked room away from the prying eyes of others and never on a laptop in a public place? |
You have signed the confidentiality clauses.
That means it would then be your responsibility to ensure that nobody else would see what you were doing. Most people can manage this when working from home - and I think most businesses have some fairly confidential stuff.
And I have worked from home before now on stuff that is probably more sensitive than anything you work on, given that you (correct me if I am wrong) work in a graphic design business. I currently work for a publisher which certainly doesn't have anything more sensitive, but I have worked for council social services departments before, with full access to the child protection regsiter and details of all people under the care of SS.
I think it is more a case of laziness or incompetence on the part of your IT department than any real security issues.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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tiffin,
"Sunny " Berkshire ?????????
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sev112, Slightly ironic 
Starting up again over here
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We had quite a lot (for London!) last night - I guess about 3-4 inches. Very pretty this morning all the wires and trees thickly covered. And snowing really quite heavily now, you can see where the snow had been cleared it's all getting covered again - quickly! 
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tiffin,
Of course
I think it has finally stopped !!!
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Put a few turns in Cirencester this afternoon - about 5 inches of snow ...... mixture of hardpack where the sledges had been and crud where the walkers were plus a few pockets of grassy powder !!!!!!
4 runs was enough.........
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Just measured the snow on the top of my car (parked outside my house  ), 4.5 inches
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Just got home and not enough to ski on in Richmond 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Sideshow_Bob,
Bring a lorry to Reading and you can have as much as you want - 24 hours solid snow - never even see that in the Alps !
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Plenty here in Oxfordshire but here, Abingdon, much too flat to ski/sledge  Decent hills at Wittenham Clumps but would need a 4x4 to get there, curses!
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You know it makes sense.
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It snowed here in Cardiff last night and this morning, though a fair bit melted earlier on. There could be snow on the dry ski slope two miles away from me 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| alex_heney wrote: |
| I think it is more a case of laziness or incompetence on the part of your IT department than any real security issues. |
Got to agree with that one.
Queen Bodecia Sorry but it's got to be said - your company really is stuck in the 70's...
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Poster: A snowHead
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No they are not. We are a very modern company using latest technologies across a range of disciplines. We simply operate in a market where costs are kept to a minimum in an effort to stay profitable. With so many of our competitors' business having failed in the latest recession, we must be doing something right. Equipping our staff with the necessaries to be able to work from home is not financially viable, and could allow possibilities for breach of security. Not only that, we need to work as teams across a range of projects, not possible to do that from several different locations.
Can we please now stop bashing my employers? I'm frankly rather bored of it. My terms of employment are very favourable to me and I feel very fortunate to still have a job, a reasonably-paid one at that, which I enjoy extremely.
Many of you may work in more traditional industries which can still afford to give their staff a whole range of benefits. This sort of thing is on the decline, as is trade union involvement. We are moving to a situation where staff benefits outside of normal pay are in steep decline as companies need to find ways to stay competitive against cheaper competitors from emerging overseas markets. Some of you with lots of paid leave, health benefits, company pensions, etc. may find that you will eventually lose these benefits.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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A1 is shocking in Durham 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| queen bodecia wrote: |
No they are not.
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In terms of what you do, almost certainly not.
In terms of how the employees are treated they certainly appear to be.
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Can we please now stop bashing my employers? I'm frankly rather bored of it. My terms of employment are very favourable to me and I feel very fortunate to still have a job, a reasonably-paid one at that, which I enjoy extremely.
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I'm glad you enjoy the work, but your terms of employment are very clearly among the worst of any snowheads in full employment.
If you don't want them "bashing", then don't keep telling us how you can't do the things most of us take for granted.
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Many of you may work in more traditional industries which can still afford to give their staff a whole range of benefits. This sort of thing is on the decline, as is trade union involvement. We are moving to a situation where staff benefits outside of normal pay are in steep decline as companies need to find ways to stay competitive against cheaper competitors from emerging overseas markets. Some of you with lots of paid leave, health benefits, company pensions, etc. may find that you will eventually lose these benefits. |
I don't think anybody has commented on things like health benefits or pensions - those are very much more down to individual employers.
Things like the ability to work from home are very much on the increase rather than the decrease, minimum levels of paid holiday are also increasing, as are more flexible working arrangements generally.
Most modern employers are aware of the fact that a happy workforce tend to be more productive, and do what they can, within reason, to ensure that.
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| queen bodecia wrote: |
| Can we please now stop bashing my employers? I'm frankly rather bored of it |
If you stop posting comments about some of their frankly daft views on employment then we'll stop taking the mickey. But if you make comments such as
| queen bodecia wrote: |
| Don't start that again. It's purely for security reasons. Most of the material we produce is sensitive and we are all bound by confidentiality clauses. |
To a forum that (as most forums) has an over-population of IT geeks, you're going to get a kick back. One of my previous holidays I was on a ski-clinic with a director of a merchant bank but the quid pro quo for him going skiing was having to check his blackberry from time to time over lunch, on the lifts etc. He obviously had access to sensitive information (in commercial terms) but his company was happy that a properly secured blackberry met the balance between mobility and confidentiality. I've done a lot of work with a National Children's Charity over the last 3-4 years and they have people working in satellite offices, from home and from mobile devices all secured using relevant technologies.
The fact that your company might not choose to make such solutions available on grounds of cost or 'efficiency' or dare I say it outmoded views on presenteeism is a separate discussion but to say 'remote access' is not available because of security risks makes me wonder whether you still have to punch a clock card in the morning.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| queen bodecia wrote: |
| Not only that, we need to work as teams across a range of projects, not possible to do that from several different locations. |
It is perfectly possible with relevant resources and technology. I'm in a global team and am the only member of staff in my particular area in London. I have several direct reports in India in a handful of geographically disparate offices. My manager is in NY and I have other team mates in Tokyo, Shanghai, NY, Chicago and Pennsylvania. Major firms have been doing this for years. It has hardly hampered their productivity, and they do it to achieve quality improvements and cost reduction. Now maybe your particular employers are in an area where hands-on face-to-face collaboration is absolutely essential but those kinds of jobs are certainly dwindling, or they're so small that it doesn't make sense to have multiple locations, but for a proclaimed progressive company not giving people the ability to work from home seems anything but.
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| bertie bassett wrote: |
| frankly daft views on employment |
So what are these views? Unpaid overtime is fairly common throughout many industries, just look at junior doctors' hours. Restricted paid sick leave is pretty common too. I think other than that my terms of employment are pretty much the same as most. The issue of remote access to our server has been declined on the grounds of cost and security, pure and simple. Many of the staff have Blackberries, iPhones and laptops and can access their emails and FTP without issue from any location (obviously taking security concerns into account).
Can we get back to the snow please? We're supposed to get some more here today but so far it has been a lovely crisp bluebird day.
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so at Sat afternoon who is seeing white ? (acting under gravity )
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Light flurries in Aberdare, S Wales.
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We're 12m form Lizard Point which is the most southerly point in the UK and we have snow. 
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4 inches here last night and now my car is officially stuck. Was at my dads earlier and he has 12 inches in his garden fnarr fnarr
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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The tiniest amount in Hammersmith this morning during our rowing. It was still quite cold and the oars and boat got coated in ice almost immediately we got on the river. Missus has stolen the car otherwise I'd be tempted to recce Box Hill
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Snow deeper than walking boots in Seaford park = wet feet ;-( Warmer temps mean the beginnings of a melt, but not stopping the building of an igloo..! Now safely ensconsed in the pub with homphomp  (via SMS)
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You know it makes sense.
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Dumping again in south london tonight - cue rail chaos for the morning 
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