I am wondering about the extent we are monitored. I use a password manager extension to help save login info for certain web tools, as well as to keep all passwords consistent after the mandatory password changes.
Can the company see how often we are typing, what we are typing, etc?
Years ago (and I think it is still do e) there was an app T installed on PCs, I think it is called idesktop. It monitors your activity. As the user you have access to some of the reports. If I recall correctly it was installed primarily on PCs belonging to techdev folks.
I have always assumed company provided equipment has spyware built in so I use it for the purpose the company intends.
Contractors are nowhere close to being cheaper than IDC. Even the cheapest contractor is more expensive than IDC by $40 an hours. Even their fully loaded rate is much cheaper.
“I can assure you nobody gives a sh-t about what you do on your phone or email. Teams are selected for layoffs based on titles, salaries, performance (ratings), number of total sustainment hours, and most recently RTO compliance. There's really no other metrics because executives can't be bothered to review individual cases. You can be busting your a-s enhancing things left and right, but as long as you're putting in sustainment hours, you're sustaining.”
What do you mean enhancement vs sustainment?
You mean like project PIDS and if a project is enhancing or sustaining?
Why would sustainment get a higher weight than enhancing?
A lot of developers get put on ‘enhancing’ since they’re adding new features to existing software or making new microservices, are you saying these people get targeted?
Yes they absolutely track keystrokes for productivity reports. They also monitor your company phone and emails. Teams can track your meetings and everything you do daily.
I can assure you nobody gives a sh-t about what you do on your phone or email. Teams are selected for layoffs based on titles, salaries, performance (ratings), number of total sustainment hours, and most recently RTO compliance. There's really no other metrics because executives can't be bothered to review individual cases.
You can be busting your a-s enhancing things left and right, but as long as you're putting in sustainment hours, you're sustaining.
If a team is chosen based on these qualifications, HR asks the manager to select a few people. The manager will then be left with the difficult choice of picking someone to let go. You can imagine how stressful this is becoming now that teams are running skeleton crews.
The company is also in a state of perpetual layoffs. We no longer have mass layoffs, but rather a handful of teams are selected every week. It helps keeps the overall noise down on places like here and in the media.
I'm sure HR will be upset with me ripping the covers off like this, but honestly y'all (and I know you read these) can go fu-k yourselves and your stealth layoff bullsh-t. People deserve to know how they are selected.
“they are also hiring people in India to remotely turn on your camera and watch you”
Actually the opposite is happening at least with the IDC. They’re charging like $120 an hour for an employee. No dev team wants to use them. Contractors still much cheaper.
Yes they absolutely track keystrokes for productivity reports. They also monitor your company phone and emails. Teams can track your meetings and everything you do daily.
they are also hiring people in India to remotely turn on your camera and watch you.
They probably only have Forcepoint and Sentinel one configured to detect egregious behavior (po-n, YouTube, news) and time.spent reading non Att sites, they don't need to monitor keystrokes,.it's easier to just do it at the. Network level and and do packet inspection and DNS query auditing to see what your up to.
What I find amusing is the changed the policy on Edge regarding clearing history or incognito mode. Wonder why they did that
They like logging strokes alright....so stroke stroke stroke it. You know stankey is st-----g it thinking about getting rid of people. They can log the strokes alright.
“On Windows: possibly.
On Mac: No.”
Addendum to this -
SentinelOne and ForcePoint have some features that can track and log some things, but not keystrokes exactly.
On Mac, it’s easy to disable these things and I just modify the JAMF profile, remove the fields from it where it pulls, installs, and runs them, then nuke the location they’re installed.
Also remove them from login on Mac and they just won’t start when the system boots.
No bloatware slowing my system down - thanks.
On Windows: possibly.
On Mac: No.
A certain VP with initials DJF from several years ago announced on a town hall that ATT was tracking keystrokes back then. If he was telling the truth then I imagine it is still being tracked.
Maybe...
If they log keystrokes, yes. If they don't, most passwords should be entered after a secure session is established (https or a secure socket for email), in that case no.
The bottom line is don't do personal business on company assets. I've never accessed a personal account in 25+ years so I don't worry about it.