Phone Policy

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by techhelpbb

Thanks for your concern.
That's a quote from my original post.

You know what it takes to start a financial services company?
A lot of money so early in my career there were often sub-optimal staff for this duty.
It was compensated for with automation.
I wrote a lot of that automation with REST/SOAP, Bash/Ksh, Perl, Python, Ruby and even some VBA for reporting.

Would you seriously suggest I leave a script unattended merely to avoid my inconvenience?
Would you chance leaving your team's FRC robot running unattended and fully autonomous during a match?
Would you bet your retirement on a script that could be fingerprinted or fail to account for the nuances of a security issue?

Even if you answer yes to any of those queries I am afraid that you would be the minority.
People expect their money to stay where they put it and their financial transactions to operate as intended.

If there was an irregularity at my former position federal agencies took notice fairly quickly.
My obligation was stop anything that would cause anyone else to have to act.

I would say those automation skills served me very well considering it would now be considered: SecOps/DevOps
My work in that environment made it possible for us to achieve ISO27001 security certification with a very small number of issues to remediate.
So basically what this translates to is that our security was considered actually very good by some of the highest industry standards.

No. I would, and do, value my health and enjoyment of other activities well above that of my job. And before someone asks, yes I tell my management that. See, I work because I need to earn a living. I have a very strict policy of fire walling my time. I've found this is better for my health and productivity.

I commented that it's a bad policy because I think it causes unnecessary stress which can lead to health problems. I'm glad you draw pride in this but to me it is a sub par solution.