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Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

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Post by dahcryn »

tpxl wrote: post #110
eru wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So, in the end, people just started giving the best possible feedback regardless of the team or manager performance. That seems to be the best possible strategy for any feedback you have to give as a captive audience? Reminds me of the feedback German companies are forced to give about their employees. It's like a formal letter of reference, but you can and will be sued if you you anything negative. Consequences ar…

> And because there has been an inflation in how complimentary these letters are, people started suing when their letter wasn't flowery enough, because that somehow could be read as an implicit criticism. You got a source for this folktale?

this is common practice in general no? People ask for references, or try to contact former bosses, when hiring critical profiles. Obviously nobody will say anything bad, so HR is trained, and giving trainings to the hiring managers, how to "grade" the level of positivity.

There's a difference in saying "Yes I confirm person X worked here, he did a good job on all the tasks that we have asked him to do" vs "Yes, he was amazing at his job, he was proactive and really drove innovation, we are sad to see him leave"

Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

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Post by janc_ »

thinkingtoilet wrote: post #36
supriyo-biswas wrote: post #35

All of this reminds me of a hilarious situation at a previous employer. As is standard corporate practice, they used to tell people to inspect links by hovering over them to confirm that they lead to the official website of the sender. People kept falling for phishing links though, so they got a Trend Micro device to scan emails, which also rewrote every link in it to point to their URL scanning service, which means…

I had the opposite funny experience. When I worked for Global MegaCorp, they would occasionally send out phishing emails and if you clicked on a link it would be recorded and you would have to do trainings if you got fooled a couple times. Eventually everyone learned to stop clicking on links on emails. That's good. However, they sent out a yearly survey to get feedback from all the employees and no one clicked the l…

Doesn't help that most surveys are on external unknown domains, and look very suspicious (tracking codes, etc.). I get such links to surveys & other commercial bullshit from my bank too, like they want to train you to click fishing links…

Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

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Post by johnisgood »

mmarq wrote: post #118
tpxl wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And because there has been an inflation in how complimentary these letters are, people started suing when their letter wasn't flowery enough, because that somehow could be read as an implicit criticism. You got a source for this folktale?

The reality is that these letters are written in a kind of pseudolegalistic language, where a phrase like “the employee was punctual” means they were usually late. If they were actually punctual, you'd see something more like “the employee consistently demonstrated exceptional punctuality”. You usually need the reference letter to be reviewed by the works council or by an employment lawyer.

sighs. Seriously?

Good to know though, if true.

Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

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Post by tsukikage »

hdgvhicv wrote: post #104
wbl wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You innocent young being. There are some gaping holes in your Internet lore knowledge, but it's been eons since that's been seen in the wild.

I miss the days of goatse

...brand new sentence!

Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

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Post by johnisgood »

engrefoobiz wrote: post #128
isoprophlex wrote: post #80

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I have firstname@lastname.email... people keep telling me that can't be right and don't i mean it ends with email.com?

I have a .ninja email and get the same a lot to the extend where I explicitly say "it ends in .ninja with no .com or anything". Usually use company-i-buy-from@mydomain.ninja whenever I make online purchases, and I had a guy from a small shop call me up and ask why I had an email with his company name on. Took some good fifteen minutes to explain him that I was legit and owned the domain. He was still reluctant in the…

I read the same story from either you or someone else before. Crazy.

Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

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Post by mogoman »

Around 2001 I worked for one of the big dot com news outlets. In our reception we had a PC with a browser set up where people could "use the internet" while they waited. One day the receptionist asked me to fix the PC as it wasn't connected to the internet and no one from IT was available. So I messed around a bit (think in the end I just reset the DCHP lease) and to test I opened the browser to surf the net.

Of course with the millions of websites available I couldn't think of one specific one, so I just held down the "x" key and then pressed CTRL+ENTER (which automatically added "www" and ".com" to your entry - typing this on a mac I see it still works with Firefox).

Of course www.x(and a few more x).com was a porn site.

Of course there were a bunch of people (including customers) sitting in reception (and the receptionist herself) who could directly see the screen.

Of course the PC was running nothing else, so a quick alt+tab didn't hide anything.

I announced that all was fine and ran for my desk.

Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

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Post by arghwhat »

Ah no need, corporate IT already make all URLs malicious looking through some microsoft "secure link" service, and constantly shows everyone shady looking prompts that constantly change and have cmd.exe windows flash in at random.

A phone call from Microsoft about my Norton anti-virus subscription putting me into debt that can only be settled with Nintendo gift cards bought in cash across 16 specific gas stations seem much more legitimate in comparison.

Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

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Post by LtdJorge »

mogoman wrote: post #148

Around 2001 I worked for one of the big dot com news outlets. In our reception we had a PC with a browser set up where people could "use the internet" while they waited. One day the receptionist asked me to fix the PC as it wasn't connected to the internet and no one from IT was available. So I messed around a bit (think in the end I just reset the DCHP lease) and to test I opened the browser to surf the net. Of cour…

Lol, in that situation, the best combination would have been Win+D, I guess.
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