Sneak has spent many a long night in front of his monitor, head in hands, trying to work out why IT is held in such poor standing in so many enterprises. It is ultimately not, Sneak believes, because very often on a Friday afternoon when a mission critical IT problem occurs, said staff have already withdrawn to their ‘office’ in the pub next door. Nor is it because the level of social skills in this band of merry men and woman falls somewhere between Gordon Brown and a piece of bark.

No, none of this actually. New research from the TV Licensing Annual Review has found that computer and technology workers are more likely than any other to commit white collar crime. You know, things like speeding, using the phone while driving a car, or not paying their driving licenses. Maybe one stat in particular explains their lack of popularity. A fifth said they knew a lawbreaker but over half responded that they would actively tell the police if they saw someone committing a crime. No one likes double standards, people.

21 Dec 2007