Should I send this lot home early or make them stay until 5:30?
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Should I send this lot home early or make them stay until 5:30?
Not previously, no. But this week I have listened to Dicken's Christmas Carol, I have watched the Disney animation of A Christmas Carol, and I have watched the George C Scott Christmas Carol, and I find my sympathies entirely in accord with the thoughts of the early period Scrooge.
I'm paying these bástards to sit on their fat arses guzxzling booze and turkey that I've fúcking paid for. It's adding insult to injury.
Yes, but you own the means of production and are - presumably - employing them at a considerable profit to yourself. So you can console yourself that you are exploiting them because they are always being paid considerably less than their labour actually accrues and that you are hoovering up that difference in order to pay for your diamond-encrusted underpants and whatnot. :thumbup:
Did you hear that Wetherspoons decided to delete their entire marketing database to be on the safe side? Not that they need one, of course.
I have to compose an email right now to a future software supplier explaining for about the third time the data structure we need to comply with the GDPR, having spend about two hours previously on the phone to them explaining what was required.
:shout:
Actually, I call myself a magazine editor these days. For some reason, calling myself this rather than a journalist means I pay lower insurance premiums. Fúck knows why.
I’m back on the 2nd, which I think is indecently early. Sometimes one can stretch these Christmas breaks into nearly three weeks.
Probably suggests the Spoons never had any type of consent controls in the first place. Can’t imagine they have or need a huge marketing machine anyway, a person that wishes to attend Monday night curry club does so irrespective of an email arriving in their inbox.
It’s all a massive pain in the *******s, as we have discussed and now our HR friend (Nazi?) has also confirmed. I had reached the point where my boss was basically taking the piss and giving all the work to me so I have told him I am not willing to become the company DPO. Have to say the atmosphere is frostier than Tony the Tiger.
Apart from the whole consent fandango, there's the infrastructure security too. If you get hacked, it's basically your fault unless you can show you have done everything possible to avoid it, which basically means bankrupting yourself hiring security consultants to do 'penetration tests' :-| on your websites and networks. And if an external data processor you use can't produce compliancy documentation you're supposed to sack them off as if an alternative is available off the peg to just plug in instead. Who'd want to take DPO responsibility for that lot?
I keep hearing the words "...all reasonable steps" with regards to GDPR. The lawyers will have a ****ing field day with this one, of course.
I am sure it is me who will be expected to be the DPO :cry:
I am already pissed off at getting retrospective consent for stuff.
And getting express consent from employees' emergency contacts to have their details stored on our database is like pulling teeth :banghead:
There is quite a degree of responsibility on the incumbent which is why I got fúcked off with the ongoing assumption that I would do it without even bothering to ask me. The boss mentioned remunerating me for the extra role but I explained I was not a greedy man and declined in a polite but blunt way.
I would be careful about accepting any role on a company level as it goes far beyond your HR issues.
I know. Some **** in another department does something thoughtless and then the finger gets pointed at you.
One of the most poisoned ****ing chalice there has ever been.
We are not massive data handlers but the implications are far still far reaching for us :-(
My only hope is that all of the pre-go live hype has massively overblown everything. Though, I fear this isn't the case.