30 October 2012

Business cards are one of those things one really wants to pick up

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Sometimes even the best of us drop things we don’t manage to pick up.

But when it’s business cards? And at O’Connor shops? It can really save embarrassment to make an effort.

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georgesgenitals said :

Woody Mann-Caruso said :

gullible

They took that word out of the OED last year.

It’s spelt ‘gulliable’.

No, it’s true. I looked up the OED and couldn’t find it anywhere.

georgesgenitals3:56 pm 11 Aug 10

Woody Mann-Caruso said :

gullible

They took that word out of the OED last year.

It’s spelt ‘gulliable’.

Woody Mann-Caruso2:20 pm 11 Aug 10

gullible

They took that word out of the OED last year.

Hmm…
Seems what I recall as being in the Commonwealth PSM was actually a Departmental security advice about ‘handling business information securely’.

Here we still get told to hand back any spare business cards before new ones will be issued on the grounds that they could be used for identity impersonation.
Which is a strange idea anyway, we give them out for free to strangers, and then expect the recipient to dispose of them appropriately?
But anyone falling for “Of course I am who I say I am, here is a business card” without further checking is seriously gullible.

Woody Mann-Caruso10:13 am 11 Aug 10

*gasp*

I had no idea having my business cards fall into the hands of others was such a security risk! Here I was thinking they were specifically designed to be circulated, but now I find they should be kept under lock and key and never given to anybody! I shudder to think what somebody might do with all the cards I’ve handed out at meetings and conferences. I mean, they have my name, my landline, my mobile, my e-mail address, my street and PO Box addresses, my employer…they could be stealing my identity RIGHT NOW! Oh, dear God – I just realised the same information is in my EMAIL SIGNATURE! I’m enabling terrorism! And it’s on GOLD! They’re probably walking into Commonwealth premises right now! With guns! And my business card! And security is just waving them through!

greenit said :

Hey Nerissa

This is why we all have secure rubbish bins in the workplace – could be a major security risk to dispose of any work related documents through your regular rubbish. I’m surprised your agency didn’t alert you to this risk as part of your security assessment!

This is standard policy where I work, not even subject to situational risk assessment. But if it isn’t where Nerissa works, the above is why it should be.
Read the goddamn Protective Security Manual if you’re entitled to, that’s what its for.

Hey Nerissa

This is why we all have secure rubbish bins in the workplace – could be a major security risk to dispose of any work related documents through your regular rubbish. I’m surprised your agency didn’t alert you to this risk as part of your security assessment!

georgesgenitals6:16 pm 06 Aug 10

Hey Nerissa – can my housemate give you a call? He’s single.

Thoroughly Smashed4:52 pm 06 Aug 10

Holden Caulfield said :

embilly said :

Hmmm, couldnt this amount to slander?

Slander, for this!

When did we die and become the United States?

The United States wherein it is more difficult to successfully sue for slander than it is here, or some mythical United States wherein it is easier?

colourful sydney racing identity3:11 pm 06 Aug 10

embilly said :

yay for Nerissa!

+1

yay for Nerissa!

*applauds Nerissa for trying to fix up an unpleasant situation*

troll-sniffer12:14 pm 06 Aug 10

Eh Narissa you could have been saved the problem if the OP had been more community-minded and less after sensationalism, and picked up the cards having noted they possibly represented an identity problem for you.

But that might not be riotous behaviour might it?

I was upset when I found out that someone had gone through my rubbish bin and had taken a quantity of outdated business cards and scattered them around the area. As soon as I heard of this, I went to the shops and cleaned up any cards that were still there. This incident reinforces warnings by the police of identity fraud and lessons about not disposing of any personal information through the public waste system.

Well, I’m just sayin… everyone here is implying that the owner of the business cards is the litterer. Just puttin it out there.

Holden Caulfield10:48 am 06 Aug 10

embilly said :

Hmmm, couldnt this amount to slander?

Slander, for this!

When did we die and become the United States?

The green question is did JB do the right thing and pick up the business cards after the photo op.

Hmmm, couldnt this amount to slander? None of us have any idea of the sitaution behind this. I feel bad for this person as there’s a fair chance that she didn’t drop them on the ground herself, and I’m sure right about now, she’s getting a phone call at her desk from someone wanting to know what the hell she was thinking.

How about people go easy on the poor woman before you draw the worst conclusion??

Hells_Bells748:27 am 06 Aug 10

I used to go to school (Merici) with a Nerissa.

These days with the Riotact around you don’t have to drop them from the sky to get them all around Canberra.. Great advertising in better circumstances.

But littering is littering 🙂 (although it may be someone else’s litter job of course).

Monster of the Deep12:08 am 06 Aug 10

Are we supposed to be able to read what these things say? Because I for one can’t make out a word, not on my screen.

thy_dungeonman10:56 pm 05 Aug 10

I don’t see the problem in leaving the contact details visible, that’s what business cards are for, these business cards somehow got spilt everywhere and this is the resulting image if it’s a problem that everyone now knows their contact details then they should clean them up.

Could be something as simple as the person accidently leaving a box of the cards on the roof then driving off without realising..

georgesgenitals7:12 pm 05 Aug 10

A bit nasty leaving the details for all and sundry to see. Of course they should have been picked up, but geez, this is a bit rough.

I had a colleague in an ACT Govt. Regulatory Department, who gave out his business card to a so called client. The Client then went and used the business card to pose as an inspector on work sites. He was found out and charged by the Police. The person who belongs to these cards (OP pic) really should have made an effort to either take better care of them, or pick them up if they dropped them. I am sure their boss wont be too happy if the same scenario was to pan out.

ConanOfCooma6:06 pm 05 Aug 10

As APS, I can tell you one thing:

Can’t wait to laugh my arse off at the fallout from this shit-hit on the fan!

Witness the shitness!

mate, it’s possible it wasn’t the person ON the business cards who dropped the business cards.

in fact, i’m gonna put it out there and say it’s highly unlikely it would be the person on the cards. who is gonna litter all over Turner shops and then leave their name regarding every single piece of litter dropped?

easy to react but better to look beyond the obvious.

She’s only meant to give a marine pollution protection response, or to care if its an oil spill.

(You couldn’t go to the effort of obscuring her mobile number or work email though, Jb?)

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