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Subject:RE: Should I furnish computer? From:"Ken Poshedly" <Ken_Poshedly/Parts/ProductSupport/GA/KFI -at- kfiusa -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 6 Jun 2001 14:40:52 -0400
(Please excuse me if this has already been mentioned here but my work load
simply keeps me from reading the list every day.)
As an interesting sidebar to the discussion of who should furnish a
computer uesed for business purposes, here in Atlanta, a caller to a
consumer call-in radio program had what I consider a terrifying story.
The caller, a male, who has been employed at his company for about 8 years
or so, if I recall correctly, is pretty much one of us who uses a computer
at the office each day (I don't recall if he was a bookkeeper, sales guy or
whatever, but it doesn't matter here).
One day, the employee was approached by his manager with a form to sign
which required the employee to assume all costs associated with repair and
maintenance of his company-owned office computer. The manager said this was
due to the number of instances of data-destroying viruses and other events
which had taken down the company's computers over a period of time. This
employee was not being singled out and it was to be a new policy for all
employees. So anything from hard drive failure (not too pricey) to
Microsoft Access glitch (very pricey to diagnose and fix) was the
employee's financial responsibility.
When the employee protested, saying he -- like others there -- have no
control over what may be attached to official company correspondence that
comes in on the company's own network, he was told to either sign the form
and remain employed or look for a new job.
The radio program host advised the caller to try to negotiate with his
employer to soften the blow, or else sign the agreement as-is or find a new
job. But the host also wondered aloud if this is a dark cloud on the
horizon of how businesses are shifting expenses.
The host is Clark Howard and his program airs each weekday from 1 to 6 p.m.
Eastern Time on radio station WSB (750 AM) in Atlanta. Clark is a longtime
consumer radio show host and is locally recognized and very highly
respected as a virtual encyclopedia of knowledge on travel, finances,
computers, and much more.
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