Depends. I had a job at a hotel once that for the first 3 years we didn’t have this one piece of annoying software. Never had an issue with counting money. Never had an issue with keeping track of dirty rooms.
Then we got this new software, and it wanted you to change your password every week to keep it secure.
After a month I couldn’t even remember what it was this week. So we took to writing down our passwords and taping them to the monitor bezel. Now this super secure policy for password management became infinitely INSECURE, because I, an hourly part time employee, had access to the owners portal. I could log in as him, change my pay rate to $300 an hour. Which I did. I told him “I will show you why this system is the worst idea you’ve ever had.” He didn’t believe me, and 2 weeks later my part time check was higher than the salary general managers.
He asked how I did it, I said I used his account to change my pay roll. So he stopped putting HIS password up, and only made us put our passwords up.
So the next night, I logged into the managers account. I switched every single room as dirty. While keeping a paper list of what rooms are clean.
Then I left for the day. When I came back the next day they said they were having issues with the software, and doing everything the old way now.
Not exactly how I meant to accomplish the job. I figured there was going to be several more steps, after they figured out what happened. I just didn’t count on them not figuring it out. So I just went with it, and nobody had to remember passwords anymore because I caused chaos for 2 weeks.
Depends. I had a job at a hotel once that for the first 3 years we didn’t have this one piece of annoying software. Never had an issue with counting money. Never had an issue with keeping track of dirty rooms.
Then we got this new software, and it wanted you to change your password every week to keep it secure.
After a month I couldn’t even remember what it was this week. So we took to writing down our passwords and taping them to the monitor bezel. Now this super secure policy for password management became infinitely INSECURE, because I, an hourly part time employee, had access to the owners portal. I could log in as him, change my pay rate to $300 an hour. Which I did. I told him “I will show you why this system is the worst idea you’ve ever had.” He didn’t believe me, and 2 weeks later my part time check was higher than the salary general managers.
He asked how I did it, I said I used his account to change my pay roll. So he stopped putting HIS password up, and only made us put our passwords up.
So the next night, I logged into the managers account. I switched every single room as dirty. While keeping a paper list of what rooms are clean.
Then I left for the day. When I came back the next day they said they were having issues with the software, and doing everything the old way now.
Not exactly how I meant to accomplish the job. I figured there was going to be several more steps, after they figured out what happened. I just didn’t count on them not figuring it out. So I just went with it, and nobody had to remember passwords anymore because I caused chaos for 2 weeks.
I respect this a lot. We have to re-enter passwords on every device every week. Everyone hates it. You’re doing good work.