IT Policy
A friend used to work at a company whose main business is over the internet. They were taken over by an American company whose main business is also over the internet.

For months, despite repeated queries about promised revisions, no updates to policy happened, and it was pretty much business as usual. Then, out of the blue, the new IT policy arrived.

It started off with "no personal email", "no porn", the usual. Then it just got weirder and weirder and more and more restrictive until point 12:

"12. The Internet shall not be used for either (a) the receipt or (b) the transmission of data."

Erm, doesn't leave much room for a workaround, that one. Their new 1000 blade server cabinet was now officially there for warming mugs of coffee.

It was at this point that my friend decided that it was time to move on.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Mon 27 Feb 2012, 10:16, 4 replies)

Would the company in question bear any relation to a famous brown sauce?

(bekowsquap Was raptured on, Mon 27 Feb 2012, 16:03, closed)

No.
It's not someone you would have heard of.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Mon 27 Feb 2012, 17:19, closed)

1,000 blades in one cabinet? Swiss Army Servers, were they?
(Nicklock, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 14:53, closed)

While I say "cabinet"...
...it will be apparent to one skilled in the art that "cabinet" may also refer to a plurality of cabinets, racks, or other mounting equipment for the safe deployment of said servers.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:30, closed)