RE: hide payroll from the security officer

Get this!  (I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP!)

Several years ago, I went to work for a company as a contractor.  My first day
there they handed the payroll over to me.  Literally.  The company's VP of
Finance didn't want any employees (except for her and the payroll clerk) to have
access to any of the data!  I was told to not ask why.  Even my supervisor, the
MIS director, wasn't allowed to see any of this.  I wasn't real comfortable with
the possible implications, so I told _MY_ employer what was going on.  Never had
any problems, thank goodness!

- Dan Bale

>>HERE! HERE!

I was in a situation were a company wanted me to work on there payroll
system, but would not give me authority to the files I needed.  O.K. to
write the application from copies of the file structures, but without actual
data, it made it hard to test certain things that ended up blowing up in
production runs when unexpected data conditions came up.
I told them I don't care what anyone else makes, only that I am at (or at
least close) to market value.<<





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