Hey all. One of the questions on this week's review list got a pretty significant edit as a result; please take a look and cast reopen votes if you think it warrants it.
Matt, thanks for starting a discussion of this one! The post has now received a pretty major edit and has some reopen votes, so I encourage anybody reading this to take another look. @ReallyTiredOfThisGame, thank you for that above-and-beyond edit! — Monica Cellio ♦4 mins ago
Any idea why I can't seem to register for an account on Workplace Meta? Entered the data, it was accepted, can't sign in.
BTW, since I can't post it there: My solution to the "releaving letter" frequency was to add "india" to my list of blocked tags. Bingo, those are greyed out and easy to skip over. (I've done the same for a number of other topics I don't have a useful opinion on.)
@MonicaCellio: We (virtually) know each other from past network presence, right?
@keshlam I used to work for IBM (a while back), so maybe that. I'm not currently active on IBM fora. But there may well still be stuff floating around with my name on it; weirder things have happened. :-)
@jmac: No error. Enter login info, wind up back at same screen still not logged in. Same behavior no matter whether I try to log in from the top bar or from the "you must log in to comment" link. It no like me.
@MonicaCellio: OK, same person then. And yes, HTTPS Everywhere... Sigh. OK, now I know. I'm not going to ask why the problem exists only for meta, for fear of being asked to help fix it. :-P
@keshlam it has to do with the cert URLs. Apparently they can handle .stackexchange.com, but not meta..stackexchange.com -- and I guess ..... doesn't do the trick or maybe you can't do that with certs. If you search for "HTTPS Everywhere" on MSE that should turn up some stuff about it.
I was working in a company where the product was called "Spark". So my designation was "Spark Network Support". I was working as Network Support for this project. This is my previous employer. As I was not getting calls based on this job title, I changed this title to "Network Support Engineer". ...
We've completed our first review, with one major edit from @Chad and a subsequent reopen, and deletion of several questions that couldn't be saved. Round two will be coming up soon.
Here are the results of this review:
1 http://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27998/technical-position-but-questions-about-temperament
There's the core of some good questions there, but this was closed as too broad and the review did not prompt any further actions from the community. Del...
Thanks to @MattGiltaji, @Chad, and those who cast reopen or delete votes in this round!
Broken Windows for Review Week #2
As part of our efforts to help fix closed questions on our site, below are ten Workplace SE questions posted for community review. We'll leave this post open until Sunday, September 7th, and then we'll handle whatever remains.
Tools at your disposal include ed...
5 How widespread is the usage of employee monitoring software?
The original post was speculative and overly broad. However, the post has been edited and is a bit more fitting for Q&A format. This post does still seem a little broad, but the answers fit the goals of our site, which is to teach, n...
There has been recent talk at my company about software being used to monitor employee's activities on their work computers.
How would I be able to find out if my company uses this type of software?
How should I adjust my behavior when using work computers if I know I am being monitored?
@jmort253 If you are willing to delete the answers then I think I could edit the question and save it. But there are 3 answers there that are not incorrect but do not belong here and make saving the question unpalatable to me.
@Chad What do you think is missing from the other answers? Is it the "how should I adjust my behavior" part?
On one of the last posts we did this on, we left comments giving the answers a heads up that the question may change and require updated answers.
For me, the big criteria in terms of deleting the answers is whether or not we'd delete the question if no one were to edit it. I don't think we're against the idea though, if that's what it takes to keep the question.
Here are the results of this review:
1 http://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27998/technical-position-but-questions-about-temperament
There's the core of some good questions there, but this was closed as too broad and the review did not prompt any further actions from the community. Del...
There has been recent talk at my company about software being used to monitor employee's activities on their work computers.
How would I be able to find out if my company uses this type of software?
How should I adjust my behavior when using work computers if I know I am being monitored?
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