Looks like ford is tracking computers. Happened to check network traffic and workblaze-us.lakesidesoftware.com is showing up every 3 minutes. This wasn’t on my network traffic in the recent past. If you take a trip over to their website it shows Ford as a trusted partner. Transparency would have been nice.
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Ford is an odd place.
Way back the Pulse surveys were actually anonymous and actually provided HR and exec team good info. Then the “leadership” team didn’t like how their bonuses were being impacted by poor pulse scores so they made a case to HR and the executive team that people were giving them bad pulse surveys that didn’t actually work for them. So you had to sign in with your cdsid and anonymity was removed. Of course some of the “leadership” found ways to exploit the information they now had access to by intimidating subordinates. Then legal got involved and to CYA the pulse collection and reporting was outsourced, but data could be retrieved by “leadership” on request.
Initial good intent for a process, turned to useless punitive process.
One of my friends worked in HR way back and told me that oddly enough the only people who they observed leaving fake poor pulse scores were the “leadership” team leaving loads of poor reviews for their competition. Go figure.
Similarly the monitoring what you are up to on your laptop. The technology is there and well guess who controls if the content is actually reviewed / used? Again HR initially sets a policy and then the “leadership” team adjusts it for their benefit. For example they initially had hard flags for watching po-n in the office during work hours. Then well the “leadership” intervened as well some of them were caught up in the net. And since “leadership” was caught in the net legal said GSRs caught must also be ignored. The data was kept and only used if there were other reasons they wanted to release a person.
Ah what would we do without all the Friends and Family “leadership”?
And yes there are some good leaders at Ford but they know what’s what as well.
I have a friend who works for a different Company, but his job is to monitor people's computers. He said that they track certain words (such as mu---r, po-n, etc.). Once he finds them, he looks into their e-mails. Once he found two workers trashing each other over an affair with one of their spouses.
@xh Good luck with a no log policy and a virtual machine in a different country, you'd be looking at a lot of paperwork to prove a coincidence.
@d0
the vpn server can be Subpoenaed
@d0 "3) How old are you, and are you technologically inept? Are you using this site without a VPN and virtual machine, perhaps like one of the reactive posters who post impulsively?"
Ford leadership is embarrassing themselves. You don’t have just automotive Michigan reading these threads. Keep going though.
Well, no joke. Years ago, in my department, they had an anonymous survey on the department web page at ATEO. It just asked one question concerning whether or not you got some sort of review. Since I didn't remember whether or not I got that review and since the survey was anonymous, I answered NO. Within half an hour, the supervisor wheeled into my cube and asked why I said NO to the survey... Never again did I take any thing including the Pulse. They are watching you...
@cy here are a few points to consider:
1) The company doesn’t offer iMacs.
2) iMacs are just as easy to track as PCs.
3) How old are you, and are you technologically inept? Are you using this site without a VPN and virtual machine, perhaps like one of the reactive posters who post impulsively?
@cy Why?
Request an iMac. We have plenty here.
They've been doing this for at least 2 decades.
And they can ranp it up too. When a problem employee was quitting, they put a priority monitor on him. Sure enough he started dumping files to an USB device.
Also, the basement of the glass house had a computer forensics lab in it. They would do investigations into people using company laptops and on company time to run their own businesses, or surfing po-n, etc.
I wonder where they're moving that to now....
It's company owned equipment, they have a right to track it, and view all your emails.
This is nothing new, it was on my work laptop years ago and part of the standard corporate PC load for a while. A lot of the tracking they have is only looked into retroactively if they are asked specifically.
Many work PC's have this software but they are on the private network and the tracking software just runs uselessly in the background wasting resources and filling the logs with errors for failing to reach the externally hosted nanny server.
Thank you, I have blocked that site on my network, any others?