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This doesn't anger me as much at the people just letting this happen at this point. Those of us who have taken the DISA training about PII and such are told never to share this info. But someone is allowing it. I mean, maybe if they have a gun to your head or jailed your family, maybe, but who the fuck is rolling over and just going "okay?" If these fuckers can do it, this data was never safe.
If you've taken any training, you know the weakest link is always the human.
Sounds like the entire fucking federal workforce were weak links, then.
I guess all those oaths they have to take when they get the job meant fuck-all. I guess they treat them like average people treat a UELA.
Yes, they were all humans, and humans suck
Don't blame the individual workers, blame their directors, you moron
They are the GG-15 or whatever gov rank/position that pays six figures.
They are the fuck faces firing people who accepted the sacrifice of being paid less than 60k a year to do the job of someone who should be paid six figures to keep the infrastructure up and works overtime while the director gets to play golf.
"The entire fucking federal workforce" absolutely includes the directors, "you moron."
Literally buying into the propaganda to hate on the federal workforce.
So infuriating. One unelected "head" of an unofficial department not approved or funded by Congress asking for Top Secret access, and people are just like "yep, here you go!" WTF.
Even if you feel like they'll do what they want no matter what, we don't have to do their jobs for them... RESIST!!!
They just need one person to give them access, just need to find one Trump supporter.
Workers are trained to follow orders.
In another life, my job required me to have a fancy ID. As part of the training when receiving that ID I was specifically told to never give it to anyone or even let it out of my sight if it was not in a secure and controlled location.
IMMEDIATELY after signing forms saying I had completed that training, the person at the badge desk told me to give them my ID so they could do things. I made a half hearted joke of "This feels like a trick" and was immediately yelled at with a guard (who I am pretty sure wanted to bang said desk lady) getting in my face and telling me that it is a privilege not a right to have one of those and he is sick and tired of people not respecting the flag and blah blah blah. I need to get back to work and didn't feel like having someone wave an assault rifle in my face so I handed over the badge and decided to not care.
So yeah. When your boss says "just do it", you... just do it. And your boss is saying that because they were told to and so forth up until a shitweasel who wants to curry favor with the new administration. Because, if you don't, you will be made an example of and fired for completely unrelated reasons. And while it is easy to say "Obstruct them, get fired", that doesn't really help when you need to provide for your loved ones.
I had the same thing happen at a bank, my manager threatened to fire me if I didn't hand over my login and password. After being trained to never give anyone, even your boss, the login and password. And why? Because she was doing illegal things under the teller's logins. If she had gotten caught, I would be blamed. So I quit that job. And then the whole S&L scandal happened, and I was unsurprised. After that, I learned never to give anyone a login and password. I tell myself it's a test. I'll be fired for giving them the login and password. And if they fire me, well, get another job. I have skills to get another job these days.
And yeah, "well, your director will just give it to them." That's on my director. I will at least lose my damn job without a guilty conscience. I know I did my part for the right reasons.