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Warning - Boring thread ahead

I'm supposed to be writing comedy this morning so naturally am doing everything but.

I've been pondering how many passwords I'm supposed to remember at work.

I know people often berate the number of personal/ finance passwords they have to remember but I wonder who here has the most work ones. In my previous job for a small company I had two - one for Outlook and one for Sage. Ah the good old days.

Now I work in Local Authority I have a different password for all of the following. Often they need user names as well which aren't always the same! And the first two in particular change every few weeks but not at the same time, and they have to be 'complicated', so they are never the same.

1. To log on initially - this covers Outlook too.
2. Our main finance package.
3. Our finance reporting package.
4. Our 'Supporting People' finance package
5. We have a filter for emails so some go to a dumping ground and I have to go in there to delete or open them.
6. To gain access to invoices for agency staff.
7. When applying for an internal job I was given a password to submit the application.
8. Further to the above I had to complete an online test and was given yet another password for that.
9. I have to monitor a team email address - so another password there.

Some spreadsheets are password protected too but I won't count those.

Any advances on nine? Sorry if this has been covered before but I feel better now. :)

I'm not saying they're not needed but it is painful at times trying to remember the latest ones. Yet I still remember the car registration of my Dad's Ford Cortina from the 70's. (No. I don't use that as a password!)

x

ps I don't think this is a breach of security - even if you found out all my passwords you couldn't actually make any money from it - all payments have to be authorised or counter agreed elsewhere anyway!

Supporting people? You must be in a similar organisation to me.
Hooray for the individualisation agenda, I am mostly writng risk assessments.

Quote: sootyj @ December 11 2009, 10:35 AM GMT

Supporting people? You must be in a similar organisation to me.
Hooray for the individualisation agenda, I am mostly writng risk assessments.

Yep we're the good guys. :) Well some/most of us are trying our best even if people don't believe us.

Nah I'm a lazy bludger with a platinum plated pension.

And a paedophile ring the size of Hadron collider,

:) I went to an update on our Pension scheme this week.

Who would like to start the bidding on my Death in Service benefit? I'm offering three times my annual salary to the highest bidder. As my pension will be so small I'll never actually be able to retire, you'll be quids in.

Pirate

Yeah you were right, this is a boring thread...KILL THE WENCH! I mean Thread...

Quote: Jane P @ December 11 2009, 10:13 AM GMT

I'm not saying they're not needed but it is painful at times trying to remember the latest ones.

Why not write them down using a code which only you understand, and hidden in blocks of text and numbers, where only you can find them?

Quote: LIME5000 @ December 11 2009, 2:50 PM GMT

Yeah you were right, this is a boring thread...KILL THE WENCH! I mean Thread...

You were warned so I have nothing to apologise for. If I ever start an interesting thread you'll be the first to know.

:)

I got it out of my system anyway so I'll let it go now.

RIP: Boring thread of the day. 11.Dec.09 to 11.Dec.09

Quote: Nogget @ December 11 2009, 2:53 PM GMT

Why not write them down using a code which only you understand, and hidden in blocks of text and numbers, where only you can find them?

OK I've not quite let it go.

Brilliant plan Nogget. What I'll do is tattoo the first password discretely about my person - update as necessary and hide the remaining passwords in the text code of my favourite macro.

Job done.

:)

Will they let you install a password manager? I use 1Password (paid) on my Macs and Keepass (free) on my Windows machines. I only need to remember a single password to autofill hundreds of websites with complex, randomly generated passwords.

I've only needed two or three at every job I can remember.
I aspire to the dizzy heights of nine!

Nothing's better then when you work someplace that's covered in security and then they mess it up whenever you get stuck -

How do I access the computers? Just type in the name of the company and write the word 'password' when it asks for a password.

Or -

How do I get through the security door? Just punch in 1234 and enter.

BTW, if you ever mug a Star Trek fan, their PIN number is always 1701.

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Jane, even when you're boring you're funny.:D

I've been doing my Christmas shopping on-line this year, it's great to avoid the queues, but all those passwords for amazon, ebay, ann summers etc....I'm freaking out!

I'm having to reset every single one of them, and then I can't remember them. Arrrrgh!

Quote: DaButt @ December 11 2009, 3:45 PM GMT

Will they let you install a password manager? I use 1Password (paid) on my Macs and Keepass (free) on my Windows machines. I only need to remember a single password to autofill hundreds of websites with complex, randomly generated passwords.

Thanks for the tip DaButt, will check this out to save my sanity. :)

I always base my passwords around favoured rude words. They seem to stick firmly in the memory.

I used to do that but got caught out when I had to give my password to a colleague. W@nkerzzz69 might seem a good idea at the time, but I'm meant to be a professional!

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