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10 Jul 21
There is currently an investigation going on in the UK into senior government ministers using private emails for Government business. It’s all to do with covid and PPE contracts to mates of mates etc. The whole thing stinks of corruption. The weasel Hancock is at the centre of it.
The incident has reminded my of when I once used my work email to engage another party about a private matter. I didn’t then realise how serious a matter it could be even when working within a non-government enterprise. I was, shall I say, “educated” about it in no uncertain terms! I am fully compliant now.
Any accounts of falling foul of corporate compliance?
@divegeester saidI was working for a USAID project and was spending some time in their central office in the stock exchange building in Jakarta. They had an unusually good internet connection - at a time when most people had poor dial-up. I was downloading loads of music onto my laptop oblivious to how much of a no no it was to be doing so. The chief of party and IT guy could see the office bandwidth was being hammered and they approached me in my cubicle and said they had narrowed it down to me...
There is currently an investigation going on in the UK into senior government ministers using private emails for Government business. It’s all to do with covid and PPE contracts to mates of mates etc. The whole thing stinks of corruption. The weasel Hancock is at the centre of it.
The incident has reminded my of when I once used my work email to engage another party a ...[text shortened]... uncertain terms! I am fully compliant now.
Any accounts of falling foul of corporate compliance?
@divegeester saidSo you can harrass them about it?
There is currently an investigation going on in the UK into senior government ministers using private emails for Government business. It’s all to do with covid and PPE contracts to mates of mates etc. The whole thing stinks of corruption. The weasel Hancock is at the centre of it.
The incident has reminded my of when I once used my work email to engage another party a ...[text shortened]... uncertain terms! I am fully compliant now.
Any accounts of falling foul of corporate compliance?
Do us a favor and stop fishing for details you can harrass posters about.
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@divegeester saidDive shes playing american Football.your fair game.
I know you don’t like me because I call out your nonsense and fairy-tails, but try to remain calm and play the ball not the player.
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@divegeester saidIt’s been a long time since last I worked for a corporation but I seem to remember when I joined, any of them, there was a booklet, something along the lines of “Corporate Dos and don’t”, handed out. We were told that the “King’s” edicts were to be followed, religiously and any deviation would result in an employees “death”.🤔
There is currently an investigation going on in the UK into senior government ministers using private emails for Government business. It’s all to do with covid and PPE contracts to mates of mates etc. The whole thing stinks of corruption. The weasel Hancock is at the centre of it.
The incident has reminded my of when I once used my work email to engage another party a ...[text shortened]... uncertain terms! I am fully compliant now.
Any accounts of falling foul of corporate compliance?
@divegeester saidThird world countries have mastered the art of govt corruption. That what you described is small potatoes, an if that is all the official was guilty of, he would be considered an honest politician. Every now and then they get their just rewards, as in the case of the Haitian president.
There is currently an investigation going on in the UK into senior government ministers using private emails for Government business. It’s all to do with covid and PPE contracts to mates of mates etc. The whole thing stinks of corruption. The weasel Hancock is at the centre of it.
The incident has reminded my of when I once used my work email to engage another party a ...[text shortened]... uncertain terms! I am fully compliant now.
Any accounts of falling foul of corporate compliance?
10 Jul 21
I was invited to the opening of a fancy new data centre my company had just built.
After a very agreeable lunch I posted some outside pictures of the building on Twitter. Along with some flattering comments.
Next day I was reprimanded by my boss for my actions.
My defence that it was all good stuff that I said fell on deaf ground and stony ears.
@the-gravedigger saidThis is a good example of how not thinking about corporate expectations of personal day to day conduct, such as posting on Twitter, or sending private emails from a corporate mailbox can land one in very hot water.
I was invited to the opening of a fancy new data centre my company had just built.
After a very agreeable lunch I posted some outside pictures of the building on Twitter. Along with some flattering comments.
Next day I was reprimanded by my boss for my actions.
My defence that it was all good stuff that I said fell on deaf ground and stony ears.
10 Jul 21
@rajk999 said“Just rewards” is a relative concept I would think.
Every now and then they get their just rewards, as in the case of the Haitian president.
In the UK corporate compliance is a highly evolved mesh-work of legal statues, regulatory protocols and communication governance. Some serious breaches of one pillar of compliance do not necessary mean a law has been broken. For example a person would not go to prison for using an official email address for a private matter but they may get dismissed for breaking company email policy; on the other hand bribing a government official with a nice meal might be breaking the law, but the scale of the breach might not mean prison.