Basically, no, unless you have administrator privileges which would
mean that you are the Network Administrator, or highly regarded as a
computer associate where you would be expected to load software, etc.
and the Network Administrator allowed you to have those privileges.
And it's for your protection as well. You don't want somebody logging
on as you near promotion time and using your email to send the bosses
some nasty emails! Too much mischief can occur and you will
appreciate it over time that you are isolated in your own little login
account. An environment of Netiquette is important as well.
By the way, under NT, our bosses could view anything we had on our
hard drives, not just our Outlook email. We have had too many
occasions of NT users being escorted out of the building and out of
the job because of the things discovered on "the company's" computers.
In addition, we were government employees and understood that any or
all of our email could or was intercepted at the whim of our
inspection service for their analysis of our ethical behavior.
If you have the need to load software, I would even recommend that you
have the NA do it and not be burdened with temporary Admin
privileges...too much access power has it's downside, especially if
you're a government employee, and, of course, the "snooping" software
is purchased from private industry, so I imagine all companies have
similar protective measures installed. At the least, they wouldn't
want their company secrets moving out of the company servers and into
the hands of competitors or foreign enemies.
In addition, try to protect yourself with a reasonably difficult
password which is not written down and placed under the keyboard or on
your wall calendar.
Brad-ga |
