Here’s how I’ve best had this negotiated. First, leave the “why” out of it entirely. Instead ask what the typical schedules are, and if they conflict ask about any flexibility in scheduling. In this case, the why is a minefield, but the what (scheduling conflicts) is entirely fair game to discuss.

Oh, let’s be clear here, most companies do not know what to do, and often slip questions like these in to get an idea of what other companies are doing or what the person’s experience has been. Lots of places are having to reevaluate or completely reverse these policies. In EDU, the practice use to be mass evac…

Maybe I just work in weird places, but the workplace shooting one is actually a practical exercise if the employee will be directing evacuation of personnel or will be working in reception where they would be interfacing with the public - same as fire drills. This person is typically a standard worker with the…

The concept is the same as having your pet injected with an ID chip. It’s a sterile process and it can be read with a proximity sensor.

Typically the system must be programmed to support the chip you’ve got. HID ProxCards are RFID, that’s a pretty common standard. As long as you can convince your work to use your provided card rather than an assigned one, it would work. For NFC, those are programmable chips that only contain a few bytes of data when a…

Every state has it’s own regs on size and what-not, but here it’s fine. I also use the clip so it always has at least a visible portion to avoid any of the concealment issues.

One of the easiest approaches I’ve ever found is asking the requester, “How does legal feel about this?” I’ve had to ask it a couple times and usually the answer was a pause, and then a call to find out where it usually stopped the behavior cold. If legal has signed on to what you feel is unethical, the company may…

So at a quick glance, it looks like it completely disregards the analysis that Colorado’s skiing tourism that rakes in billions would disappear with that level of change in those same lovely dark green areas across the Rocky Mountains. So, in other words, you are all unemployed now, but hey, look on the bright side,…

Well, if the guy has a smartphone, it automatically tracked his locations. Google Location History or Apple Location History both will pinpoint where he paused at what times during the evening. Do I still get the grand?

You are forgetting that a decent chunk of rental cars are used for business. Road warriors sure as heck do not care about the “fun” option of driving in packed rush hour traffic in cities we don’t know. We need to get to our client and then get back to the airport. I use Lyft/Uber where I can specifically for that…

The term AutoPilot has always been used for a system that maintains course and heading. It wasn’t until well after the term was in use that planes could actually perform landing maneuvers. Tesla used it correctly based on context and can’t help the fact that normal folks get the wrong idea about what that term means.…

And if you’re like most of us that were impacted by the Office of Personnel Management hack, the complete details of your clearance files are currently floating around the web. I think I invented a few new curse words when I ran into my own data package on a hacker data dump.

I’m looking forward to an episode where Clarkson and May have a competition to build the best wheelchair accessible car and force Hammond to test drive them through an obstacle course. Maybe May will reuse his stone house car?

So, how exactly is it CCTV footage if the video pans slightly to follow the car?

There’s different drones for that, but yeah, folks are working on that issue as well.

I’m not sure this is the right audience for a true SSO conversation as it’s typically hard enough for experts in enterprise to get it. SSO is not a conversation about SSO vs password managers - they can actually be used in conjunction. SSO is about having a layer that you can consistently control between every device…

A company in San Francisco (Marble) is already testing rolling autonomous bots for delivery. I’ve heard it described as a lock box on wheels with a dumper mechanism once it finds the right porch.

You realize the side effect of folks carrying more cash is usually more muggings right?

The author has been interviewed on this several times, the deal with the game rights was an mistake in his opinion. He needed money in the short term and didn’t really think they could pull off any sort of successful game so he sold it dirt cheap for upfront cash. He’s since recognized that was a screw up of massive…

I too had a stock XJ end up with death wobble - terrifying stuff. If your mechanic diagnosed and fixed the issue, he’s one of the good ones. Given the fact it can be any number of about 10-15 issues that make it appear, most mechanics shotgun replace any number of things before they get it resolved. You can easily…