![]() ![]() I officially retired at the end of the year. (As I neared retirement, I wrote Legal a few times, asking them to accept the data, but never received an answer. About the same time, IT cut off the ability to back data up to what we now call "the cloud." I did not want to take the responsibility for local backups, so I hacked the mail retention policy of my account so I could leave the data on the mail server which was regularly backed up. ![]() Legal wouldn't accept the data they made it my responsibility to retain it. Some years later, working as a patent engineer, I had some data (originally delivered as email) relating to a lawsuit in progress. I was able to identify and resolve the problem by referring to the archived data. More than once, Manufacturing came to me with a line-down situation five or six years after product release to ask for help, long after I had moved on to different roles. I had a couple of 5-drawer filing cabinets of design data. In the early days, computing on mainframes with storage limits, I printed a LOT of stuff as a chip or circuit board designer. Here are a few examples and confessions from my 45-year career with a Fortune 100 company. ![]() In other cases, the C-suite sees a "simple, easy" way to reduce costs. (It was suggested above that C-suite execs have the largest mail folders. Some are imposed as a cost-saving measure. Some of these limits are imposed by Legal, as an easy way to limit corporate liability by limiting discovery. The storage tends to be associated with a person (if he's thoughtful enough to archive the stuff in the first place.) if that person leaves or transfers from the area, the data is summarily erased.ĭata retention limits make it difficult or impossible to retain critical design data. But the employees cannot get the required storage to archive this data. Some employees need to retain archival data: program source code, hardware design source (chip design, card and board design), research data, etc. It is more complicated than mailbox size alone. That was a big issue when I retired in 2013. ![]()
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