Submission + - How to get company owners to follow their rules 2
techmage writes: "Recently we had an issue at our rather small company that resulted in the loss of a lot of important data. To prevent it from happening again, we created a company wide policy that all computers would return to IT, have their contents backed up and the computers formatted and reloaded for the next user. Consistently the owners of the company break this and other policies we set up to prevent data loss, theft, etc. How do I get through to the bosses that when they break with the policies, they are potentially shooting the company in the foot?"
You work for them, they don't work for you (Score:1)
Owners and managers who are responsible for creating and enforcing policy typically act above policy because in most cases, they are. If someone is above you in a position of power to change policy then you really can't expect they are going to follow it to the letter like you expect everyone else to. I'm not saying it's right, or fair, or is the way it should be, but it's reality.
They will never understand the technical aspects of your job, that's what you are there for and why they hire people like you
Re: (Score:2)
... unless it's a listed company in which case both work for the shareholders.
(OK, it's unlikely that a "small" company is listed, but large company directors sometimes forget who they work for)