Bayer Monitoring Employee Internet Usage

I just learned the company and IT are monitoring use of company computers, email and the Internet with a software monitoring capability. WTF?? They’re using this software to monitor our internet usage like web surfing and email. Apparently they can get digital and printed copies of the websites and emails we’re looking at.

Does anyone know whose violating company policy and got us in this fucking shit hole?? I work enough hours here and if I can't even web surf every now and then without some one looking over my shoulder, then it sucks! If you're pissed off like I am and know whose screwing the rest of us over, call the compliance hotline and tell them about it. I thought there were laws that protect us with workplace privacy but I guess since it’s company property they can do whatever they want. Fuck it.

 

Yo Bozo!

Why not just get your own computer for personal use? The laptop is a work tool, owned by and provided by your employer, for you to complete your tasks in a timely and orderly fashion.

Wouldn't that be easier than running around accusing everyone else of what it is obvious you are guilty of.

 

The ability for such a thing has been in place for some time now.....going back more than a year ago.
So if anybody has used a co. asset to access the internet and you have performed online banking or cc purchases (your personal cards) you should change your pin numbers and any user names and passwords just to protect yourself....better safe than sorry.....keyloggers are widely used today,so even if no one sitting in a cube has ripped off your info that stuff is still sitting on a disc or tape somewhere.And we all have seen how great companies are with data security......somebody will generate an order to archive a shelf full of this stuff and 9 months from now you might get a letter saying your personal info might have been compromised due to our secret montioring tapes having been lost....or stolen.....Gives you a warm Fuzzy dont it!

 

Idiots ! What would you do if you owned a medium to large company . I know I would buy and use the software tracking computer usage. But if you are the type that continues to steal pens, paper, and other company provided stuff, pity you !

 

Drink more kool-aid ass kisser!!!

 

Oh boy ! That was a super come back.

question .....are you still wearing your mother's dresses ?

 

Speaking from first-hand experience, monitoring employee use of company hardware and the internet has been a very effective tool to use against the employee for dismissal and probationary action.

With one employee in the home office, the archives of their temporary internet files were retrieved going back more than one year. They contained every web page, button, and script file found on each web page visited by the employee and what they had written on blogs through digitized copies. I was shocked and so was executive management. This was used as evidence against them and they were escorted out the building with a security detail.

From what I saw .. management is aware that this is a much larger issue and they won't tolerate this kind of abuse with company property. Bayer does not want to held liable for employee misuse of the internet and email.

 

When you walk the hallways in the Jersey office you come across the ocassional person who surfs sites like this. Nothing else to do. You can hear a lot of hurried clicking when you go by the person. Makes me want to rip the shit out of the mother fucker while we work our ass off. HOw do we get rid of the dead wood?

 

set loose the termites !

 

All you need to do is purchase another hard drive (about $300) for your laptop and its like having your own personal computer. Use your hard drive to surf, do your personal email, shop on line, whatever you want. Swap it out with the company hard drive and its like nothing happened.

 

I'm a new hire and I just signed a huge pack of papers that said Bayer can monitor laptop, voicemail, everything whenever it wants. Makes sense. It is company property. Just like that mayor in the midwest who used his blackberry to text 10,000 sexual messages to a member of his staff. The moron is claiming privacy laws. Stupid. Privacy only occurs when you use your own blackberry. It's Bayer equipment and servers, period. That's why I have personal BB and work BB and never the two shall meet.

 

Spot on. All of these things get monitored by Bayer but it's not talked about. The few who get nailed don't suspect until they get formal notice when they least expect it - months or (in one case) a year after the fact. This includes Instant Messaging and web-based email accounts like Yahoo and Hotmail. Everything is backed up on magnetic tape which is stored and mined for keywords, keystrokes, and web sites and traced back to the employee.

The company wants to avoid any liability because of a similar incident a few yrs ago that made the newspapers. As someone mentioned before, it's the dead wood they look for as an excuse to get rid of. It may take awhile to build a case for dismissal or probation since they have to reconstruct employee's web surfing sessions that violate company policy.

But they are dead serious about enforcement. Trust me.

 

we trust you mister or miss no -name no -face. Yes, we trust you because that's what faith is all about. Trusting but not knowing. Let us all pray now !

 

Who is the main person in charge of all reports total? That is usually the same person who manages this kind of thing. Our company tracks data like everyone else. They just decide which data they will collect. It is usually the Sales Operations Person. I am just not sure who that is right now.

 

I KNOW of people who have been contacted by lawyers within Bayer due to their e-mail content. Be careful, just be smart!

 

Just heard that an automatic scan of some poor dumb bastard's hard drive from their workstation showed some naughty little keystrokes they were typing from last year. This is pathetic. Next stop for them ... see ya. How do they get this stuff??

 

Home office or Sales?

 

a NJ judge just threw down another ruling stating that their is no right to privacy when using electronic equipment supplied by your employer (computers/faxs/blackberries...etc...etc) one could go as far to assume that as soon as you cross the property any ideas of personal rights have disappeared

 

Of course its the home office especially because this is the root of the problem. Most of these cases from what I've heard and seen are in the home office. HR was contacted and 2 or 3 people even talked to their supervisors about what they've "observed" walking the hallways and overhearing conversations.

It triggered an investigation and there's supposed to be an ad hoc task force looking into how widespread this problem is at the company and tracing it to certain employees. They also want to understand the extent of liability against the employee and the risk to the company.

 

In field sales, better to wash your hands of the whole mess and only use the company computer only where directed. The company certainly has more than hinted that that is what they want. Take the warning.

We have been read the riot act this year in hosp/surg numerous times this year, don't email! - remember Mr. Dodero said "the company provides you with phones" (no they don't actually, you have to buy your own)

The company doesn't provide air cards for our group, even though they do for other divisions (ag, vet) because of territory size and necessity - those territories are smaller than ours

The wireless network is so tied up with security software to the point that it is often very difficult to connect in hotspots - I finally gave up recently after trying to get an email confirmation of an appointment and after 20 minutes the darn thing was still tied up authenticating and updating. Doesn't matter if the customer asks you to email them at their workstation in ICU- appear stupid and call.

The siebel database is made to provide statistics to the company, but is purposely made to function poorly as a customer information database. Wonder why you have to open two additional windows to add a phone number to an address?

Can't pull up a map or a hospital directory in the car, search for a phone number, made a hotel reservation...... Without functionality the new notebooks are just gimmicks anyway. The company provides you with resources, you really need your own to do the rest of your job, and not get made an example of. I listen to internet radio all the time, working or relaxing - do even that on the company computer and you are inviting trouble.