Using The Internet While At Work?

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do you the internet for your own use while at work?  

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  1. 1. do you the internet for your own use while at work?

    • nope not at all.
      9
    • yes i do during work hours.
      13
    • no i do not, that would be wrong.
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    • even during meetings on my phone.
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    • at work but on not during working hours.
      2
    • YES!! YES!! i just won a light saber on eBay! WOOHOO!!
      4
    • no because i am worried about getting spanked by office supplies.
      1
    • not anymore cause the boss caught me faxing my butt over the net.
      0
    • too busy looking at naughty sites while huddled under my desk to talk.
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Chappy

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Wish I could, but the City has a very strict policy about internet usage from their network, and they enforce it rigorously.

NO SURFING ALLOWED!

Only city business is allowed, and if you think about it, it makes alot of sense. They cannot afford to have the City network taken down by some idiot getting something like Sasser or Blaster worms, or have a trojan that would allow someone access to sensitive info.

The network servers contain all the tax rolls and everything the City does, our Fire department dispatch, police dispatch....etc, etc.

So if the network was taken down, it would literally cost lives....makes sense to have a no-surf policy, punishable by job termination.

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jlwohac

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Nope, can't because they took away our Internet (cuz the guys were looking at porn). Know it was the guys because there are very few women control room operators where I work (3 women and dozens of men). And...they know exactly who it was, but ONCE AGAIN they punish everyone for what a few do and don't even talk to the naughty ones. Blah to them!

Oh well...I'l do my surfing at home where I can go where I want, when I want for as long as I want in peace.

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DarkestDream

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Wish I could, but the City has a very strict policy about internet usage from their network, and they enforce it rigorously.

NO SURFING ALLOWED!

Only city business is allowed, and if you think about it, it makes alot of sense. They cannot afford to have the City network taken down by some idiot getting something like Sasser or Blaster worms, or have a trojan that would allow someone access to sensitive info.

The network servers contain all the tax rolls and everything the City does, our Fire department dispatch, police dispatch....etc, etc.

So if the network was taken down, it would literally cost lives....makes sense to have a no-surf policy, punishable by job termination.

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then the fire department can get their own internet..... two network!!! one free network from the City, one charging network!! problem solved!

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Brian_Holiday

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I spend a lot of time on the internet for my job. Security Focus, Vendor sites, NIST, CERT, NSA, DISA. All are default tabs when I start Firefox in the morning. In addition, I am salaried and routinely work over 40 weekly.

I probably spend less time surfing for non-job related reasons than most people spend in the restroom.

I asked this question over at G$ one time, primarily of the mods. SURPRISE, no one admitted they were modding on company time. The one enlightening thing I learned was that some Mods were actuallly retired and volunteering. That kind of made me feel good for some reason.

BH

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rhema7

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My job only allows us internet access on a need to basis. I work for the one of the Largest telephone companies in the nation and no internet. I have to make a request to my manager to To get new logos and Late model cars from large corparations advertising sections. Now they allow us access to do certifications, and tutorials but after that or computers change the password to access. We have a tight ship. They know to the second what aps we are using and how long it took per ad. Anything that stinks of a .exe not installed by the company notifies the SA even at home. I understand the security they pride themselves in my building on the fact that we are the only major office that has never lost a day of work due to virus, but on the other hand we are not children and can be trust esspecially since we all know they monitor everything down to our internal e-mails. Just asked the guy they caught selling Bootleg DVDs. Many of his clients were employees and made there request by internal web mail (I do not approve of his actions or the companies strick review of every word typed in our web-mails). That brings me to the final atrosity we all have DVD roms at our workstations but we cannnot watch movies during lunch or breaks.

They final lifted the ban on Cellphone in the building.

By the way my company is it's own ISP they own it. I could get a discount on DSL but my nieghborhood in a mile outside ther service area.

OK my rant is over

Preston

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Brian_Holiday

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My job only allows us internet access on a need to basis. I work for the one of the Largest telephone companies in the nation and no internet. I have to make a request to my manager to To get new logos and Late model cars from large corparations advertising sections. Now they allow us access to do certifications, and tutorials but after that or computers change the password to access. We have a tight ship. They know to the second what aps we are using and how long it took per ad. Anything that stinks of a .exe not installed by the company notifies the SA even at home. I understand the security they pride themselves in my building on the fact that we are the only major office that has never lost a day of work due to virus, but on the other hand we are not children and can be trust esspecially since we all know they monitor everything down to our internal e-mails. Just asked the guy they caught selling Bootleg DVDs. Many of his clients  were employees and made there request by internal web mail (I do not approve of his actions or the companies strick review of every word typed in our web-mails). That brings me to the final atrosity we all have DVD roms at our workstations but we cannnot watch movies during lunch or breaks.

They final lifted the ban on Cellphone in the building.

By the way my company is it's own ISP they own it. I could get a discount on DSL but my nieghborhood in a mile outside ther service area.

OK my rant is over

Preston

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HOLY CRAP! You must really love your job, or Nashvilles job market must be bad. That kind of distrust on the part of employers is too much stress for me. I do however envy your location, I loved Nashville. I went to school up in Bowling Green.

BH

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rhema7

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My job only allows us internet access on a need to basis. I work for the one of the Largest telephone companies in the nation and no internet. I have to make a request to my manager to To get new logos and Late model cars from large corparations advertising sections. Now they allow us access to do certifications, and tutorials but after that or computers change the password to access. We have a tight ship. They know to the second what aps we are using and how long it took per ad. Anything that stinks of a .exe not installed by the company notifies the SA even at home. I understand the security they pride themselves in my building on the fact that we are the only major office that has never lost a day of work due to virus, but on the other hand we are not children and can be trust esspecially since we all know they monitor everything down to our internal e-mails. Just asked the guy they caught selling Bootleg DVDs. Many of his clients  were employees and made there request by internal web mail (I do not approve of his actions or the companies strick review of every word typed in our web-mails). That brings me to the final atrosity we all have DVD roms at our workstations but we cannnot watch movies during lunch or breaks.

They final lifted the ban on Cellphone in the building.

By the way my company is it's own ISP they own it. I could get a discount on DSL but my nieghborhood in a mile outside ther service area.

OK my rant is over

Preston

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HOLY CRAP! You must really love your job, or Nashvilles job market must be bad. That kind of distrust on the part of employers is too much stress for me. I do however envy your location, I loved Nashville. I went to school up in Bowling Green.

BH

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No I love my job they pay well. and benefits out the rear very relaxed dress code

(they don't want to stiffle our creativity). But we are not treated as well as the sales reps though we are the ones that create and refine what they have sold to the customer. They get commision/ win trips to cancun and Hawaii and we get Walmart gift certificates and company branded crap (got more T-shirts, jackets and Mugs they is need). I do get a sizable bonus per year. and flex time so it all works out.

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