PASSWORD IN OFFICES

Passwords on sticky notes
>> How about the sticky note under the keyboard
>> or on the monitor?
>
> that only happens for companies that require
> their passowrds to be changed too often and
> make them too complex

Think so, huh? We extended our password life from 30 to 90 days in an effort to reduce this problem and many of our employees still do this. They also routinely share their passwords with their co-workers, citing some "need" to use each other's PC when someone is out of the office. (How about using the PC we issued to you, moron, and storing your files on the appropriate network drives where they're supposed to be? Oh I forgot, you'd no longer have to waste my time recovering your data for you after your PC's hard drive crashes.)

We even loosened up the password requirements after so many people complained they were too strict. Now it just needs to be at least eight characters. So what do many people do? Eight letter K's or J's or whatever is next in the alphabet the next time their password expires.

Then again, I work for a utility where the average length of tenure is over 15 years, and the *average* age has to be somewhere in the high forties. They say they're forgetful; I say they're lazy. Personally, I think giving up your password to anyone other than the network administrator should result in your immediate termination, and screw your damn pension for endangering the company like that.