Comments on: White-Collar Looting http://philosecurity.org/2009/02/17/white-collar-looting Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:48:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The DON http://philosecurity.org/2009/02/17/white-collar-looting/comment-page-1#comment-4384 The DON Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:37:22 +0000 http://philosecurity.org/?p=920#comment-4384 I had the pleasure of working for a company which genuinely did have a lot of consideration for its employees. Things got rough and the management (of a company with 8 employees) explained the situation to us all. We all took a voluntary reduction in wages (of varying amounts). The bosses were driving old bangers, not flashy cars etc - there was no 1 rule for them and 1 rule for us attitude. The bosses had gone to the length of considering alternative employment for each of us should the worst happen. This included some of us working for competitors and providing us with the database list of customers / suppliers. I realise that this level of concern on the part of the management for their employees is unusual, but there is a definite paranoia associated with any system collapse that the worst of people will come out. This is true for some, but not others. The open attitude of the management in my case fostered a deeper appreciation of the company I worked for and fueled my desire to see the company succeed. We pulled through that troubled time, and the company was sold some years later. The new managment had no care for the employees and the company went bust 18 or so months later. It was a company selling computer parts and systems to both trade and retail. I shall miss that working environment. It was a real pleasure to work there, even though it would never have made me rich. I had the pleasure of working for a company which genuinely did have a lot of consideration for its employees. Things got rough and the management (of a company with 8 employees) explained the situation to us all. We all took a voluntary reduction in wages (of varying amounts). The bosses were driving old bangers, not flashy cars etc – there was no 1 rule for them and 1 rule for us attitude. The bosses had gone to the length of considering alternative employment for each of us should the worst happen. This included some of us working for competitors and providing us with the database list of customers / suppliers.
I realise that this level of concern on the part of the management for their employees is unusual, but there is a definite paranoia associated with any system collapse that the worst of people will come out. This is true for some, but not others. The open attitude of the management in my case fostered a deeper appreciation of the company I worked for and fueled my desire to see the company succeed.
We pulled through that troubled time, and the company was sold some years later. The new managment had no care for the employees and the company went bust 18 or so months later.
It was a company selling computer parts and systems to both trade and retail.
I shall miss that working environment. It was a real pleasure to work there, even though it would never have made me rich.

]]> By: CG http://philosecurity.org/2009/02/17/white-collar-looting/comment-page-1#comment-4378 CG Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:05:20 +0000 http://philosecurity.org/?p=920#comment-4378 great post! its certainly a hard thing to try to keep IT people happy and at the same time spend 0 dollars on training or incentives for them. From a keeping people happy perspective in IT land most people just want that week of training. Everyone understands the economy is bad but is the 2-4k of training really cheaper than having a case of insider theft or even just the cost or recruiting/training/bringing up to speed another employee because you wouldnt pay for the other guy to have training? I lean towards that its far cheaper to keep good employees happy but i'm in the trenches and my paycheck doesnt depend on the business bottom line or how much money i saved in my dept by removing incentives. great post!

its certainly a hard thing to try to keep IT people happy and at the same time spend 0 dollars on training or incentives for them.

From a keeping people happy perspective in IT land most people just want that week of training. Everyone understands the economy is bad but is the 2-4k of training really cheaper than having a case of insider theft or even just the cost or recruiting/training/bringing up to speed another employee because you wouldnt pay for the other guy to have training? I lean towards that its far cheaper to keep good employees happy but i’m in the trenches and my paycheck doesnt depend on the business bottom line or how much money i saved in my dept by removing incentives.

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