Fingerprint Requirement For a Work-Study Job? 578
BonesSB writes "I'm a student at a university in Massachusetts, where I have a federal work-study position. Yesterday, I got an email from the office that is responsible for student run organizations (one of which I work for) saying that I need to go to their office and have my fingerprints taken for the purposes of clocking in and out of work. This raises huge privacy concerns for me, as it should for everybody else. I am in the process of contacting the local newspaper, getting the word out to students everywhere, and talking directly to the office regarding this. I got an email back with two very contradictory sentences: 'There will be no image of your fingerprints anywhere. No one will have access to your fingerprints. The machine is storing your prints as a means of identifying who you are when you touch it.' Does anybody else attend a school that requires something similar? This is an obvious slippery slope, and something I am not taking lightly. What else should I do?"
For the fossils (Score:5, Funny)
And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a ,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get
study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'm
singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar
situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a
situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into
the shrink wherever you are
anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.".
Acid (Score:4, Funny)
Use acid on your finger tips to remove the prints and use that for ID. The only problem is that you are now linked to hundreds of crimes where no traces of fingerprints were found. But at least they wont be able to identify YOU when they find your actual fingerprints somewhere.
Get Back To Us (Score:3, Funny)
Those things don't work (Score:3, Funny)
We had one, after the first couple of weeks people started punching it instead of "punching in". They're supposed to also have a keypad so you can manually enter an access code, since the reader is known to be undependable.
If you want to mess it up, each time you stick your finger on it while it's "registering you" (it needs more than 1 scan), put your finger in a different position, different angle, or even use a different finger (people generally don't notice). After 5 failed attempts, they'll give up. Or, if they "insist" o "helping you" place your finger, tell them that as far as you're concerned, their broken machine is their problem, and that touching you is common assault and you'll file charges.
Re:Get Back To Us (Score:2, Funny)
Then just hand him/her your keyboard.
Re:It's like storing a hash. (Score:2, Funny)
If you're really opposed to this, but also really want the job, bribe one of the medical students to cut off a finger and give it to you. Then you can use that finger to clock in/out instead...
Re:Acid (Score:1, Funny)
Use acid on your finger tips to remove the prints and use that for ID.
Did not go so well and now I have no fingers you insensitive clod exclamation point Windows Vista speech recognition is scrap
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