OOOOh no, you did not touch my Machine
polycounter lvl 18
How do you guys personally feel about other co-workers or bosses touching your machine? I perosnally don't really care. If someone needs to get on my machine to get something or look at something, go for it. I have nothing to hide. Its work, not home. But if someone gets on my machine to change work while I am gone, that is another story. 3 words....."OH HELL NO". It's not only rude but a slap in the face and cowardly of that person to not come to you first and asking you. The "oh hell no" part has never happened, but things change ya know.
Any thoughts as to how to handle this sort of thing? Something besides a beating to the person that would get you fired?
Any thoughts as to how to handle this sort of thing? Something besides a beating to the person that would get you fired?
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That said, a fellow team member actually sitting at your machine and changing some work you've done doesn't sound so cool. If I were you I would simply go to them and very calmly and politely just ask them If they changed X. You'd need to know If they changed X because you might overwrite it with further changes. That would be the mature way to handle it.
Before you do that however, I'd be pretty damn certain that what you think happened actually happened. You might have jumped to conclusions.
Your place sounds pretty unprofessional. Don't you use asset management software?! Nobody can overwrite my shit in Perforce If I've got it checked out. And If I haven't got it checked out and it get's overwritten, I've got a nice revision history there that says 'X change checked in by Y'. Foolproof.
If you're talking about someone nipping in changing your own work on your machine, it depends on the communication involved ... if they don't let you know, and you sit down again to find your work suddenly different to when you left it, that's just wrong. Underhand, rude, unprofessional.
On several occasions though, i've found myself working late to meet a deadline and been forced to go into the work of a colleague who isn't there. Sitting on their PC at 4am, reworking stuff to make sure the deadline runs smooth - it's not good, but usually results from a breakdown in communication from all sides. Why was the work discovered to be wrong at 4am when everyone else has gone home? Fuck-up on their part and mine, but that's a different discussion i suppose .... As long as an explanation is made clear in the morning, i see nothing wrong in changing the work.
Necessary stuff should get done by whatever means, as long as it's out in the open.
Just don't install anything, don't reconfigure the OS interface, don't move things around and if you do change the 'work' make a copy and change the copy to your hearts content......as long as I get paid and it doesn't delay the process, I don't care.
And I would never, ever, ever leave a job half finished without saving. I would never leave a program interface on and leave the computer without saving what was there.
However, if I'm 'rendering'.....machine is quarantined. Don't touch. I'd put tacks all over the seat cushion and spray paint the computer screen black.
- BoBo
At Ritual, Martinez (my personal BITCH) and I shared a space. For fun I asked him to grab me a drink from the kitchen and while he was gone I jumped on his machine and sent out a company wide e-mail with the heading "I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE..." followed by "...I LOVE THE COCK!!!" in the body. ah... great times!
- BoBo
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/me warms up the flame thrower...
Oh ok I'll not jump on the band wagon =P
We all have seperate log-ins at work so unless they log in with my user name and pass they won't be able to get to any personal settings to mess anything up or get any work off my machine. It just creates a new user on that computer and it treats them like they have never used XP before. So I really don't have an issue with someone using my computer while I am gone. It does kind of piss me off if someone turns the speakers up (external) or plays around with some of the stuff around my office. Mostly because I think something is missing and it takes me a seconds to remind myself its all junk and they would be doing me a favor it if they took some of it.
I always lock my computer when I get up. Mostly because we have a few jokers who like to mess with your settings.
- Invert or slow your mouse way down.
- Take a screen shot of your desktop then make that your desktop background. Hide all your icons and start bar and unplug your mouse.
Ever since those little harmless "mess you up wars" I lock it when I walk away. Its all fun and games until someone loses an eye or thier sense of humor. I guess it depends on how well you know the people you work with if you can do that kind of stuff or not. Some people are real tight wads and you can't joke around with them, others take it in stride and its all good. I guess it comes down to knowing thier intentions when they sit down. If they really are not planning to mess your "work" up, then whats the harm? Other than everyone gets a little too over protective about stuff that isn't thiers. If they are messing with work releated things, thats pretty screwed up, they should be talking to you about it, unless they are scared of you for some wierd reason?
God forbid anyone adjust my chair. Not just for me but those who have to take calls around me. Its a really old chair but very comphy also pretty squeeky unless you have it set to particular settings then it doesn't squeek. It takes me a lot of work to get it set back the way it was so it doesn't squeek.Its not really a matter of personal comfort, getting it set just right, its the squeeking that drives me and those around me batty. Most of the time if someone was playing with it, it was because they wanted to know what all the knobs and leavers do and I can usually hear it crying out in pain when someone is really going to town. In a call center, its bad to have a chair that complains so much, even tho I am in an office it wails pretty loud. So the longer it stays on the non squeeky settings the happier everyone is, but still there are poeple that just plop down and start spinnin', flippin', and twisten having a big O' noisy time.
Which is a great excuse when somebody comes by, expecting something done after quitting time. If it's someone else's assigned project, I just say 'no, I can't get on their computer'!
((Tubboy, you DO ask for it.))
/jzero
Lock your computers.
Tubboy.. half these people here dont understand what you're gettng at. IMO.. People besides the Tech staff really shouldnt touch your computer, unless its widely known by everyone "its common" to do that. Its polite to ask someones permission. If you are innocently caught using someones computer, questions can arise why you were there.
Its just common sence... dont use stuff that aint yours without asking, unless you have seniority or the command to do so without asking. (tech staff..etc..)
You forgot to mention that for the next 10 minutes everyone kept popping in and asking, "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?" AND since I hadn't checked my e-mail I had know idea why...
Oh, and I OFFERED to get you a drink and a slice of pizza, and that's what I get in return!!!
<font color="red">LOCK YOUR WORKSTATION!!!!</font>
On Windows NT, 2000 and XP this is usually done by using Ctrl + Alt + Delete, and it's the first option in the menu (so you normally just have to press Enter right after). If you are on any other operating system and do not know how to do this, find out from someone else immediately.
Personally id be more worried about people discovering my porn.....erm i mean anatomy references.;)
john
artist a takes half a day off. artists b-j decide to have some fun.
As for the topic, there are a lot of times when co workers have to get on my PC. I have to give them my password, but then I usually change it the next day, so it's not a problem. I have a VPN connection at home, so I can still access our work servers. But there are times when either myself or someone else needs a file on my PC that's not checked into Alienbrain.
Like so many have said, the PC isn't yours. You can load it up with all the personal crap you want, but that doesn't change a thing. I personally don't have a problem with people getting on my work PC.
My home PCs are a differant issue though