secretGeek.netIs Corporate IT a form of emotional abuse?
There's a government ad posted all over the insides of many brisbane buses at the moment, that describes some tell-tale signs of an abusive relationship.
I took a dodgy photo of it with my camera-phone, in order to try and get this idea across...
In case you can't read it, here's what it says:
Can you see signs of abusive behaviour in your relationship? | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Restricting where she goes... | Monitoring her calls... | Telling her what to wear... | Controlling what she spends... |
I think it's very easy to draw a parallel between each of these signs, and the behaviour of a typical Corporate (or Government) IT department.
Can you see signs of abusive behaviour in your relationship to the IT Department? | |
|---|---|
| Abusive Partner | Abusive Corporation |
| Restricting where she goes... | Internet site filtering |
| Monitoring her calls... | Email monitoring and phone logging |
| Telling her what to wear... | Standard Operating Environment, corporate desktop-background, corporate uniform. |
| Controlling what she spends... | Tiny size limits on mailboxes, highly bureaucratic purchasing process, draconian requisition restrictions and, worst of all, lousy pay. |
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