Is There A Way Of Making This Site Look More Like Work?

[Matilda]

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[2Boys4Me]

Good question. I wouldn't mind knowing the answer either.

[LKelly8]

You could try the "lo-fi version". (Find it down the bottom/middle of the page, just above the GFMall ad.)

[Kaycee]

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Matilda,

They will be just jealous, and feel like they are missing out on something if they saw.

You sound like you work in a very relaxed environment as far as access to the net is concerned. You are lucky.

We work in a very restricted office, and any venture away from educational sites we get rapped on the knuckles. One employee got roasted for looking up Mark Knoffler! I tell you I am even too scared to go anywhere apart from where I should. She is a very draconian lady our boss, (but she is not the boss, but sometimes we wonder)

So I would be very interested if I could be able to get away with being on the net while working. As it is if we are big users, and huh, funny I was a big user a couple of times, we get a message stating how much we have downloaded, or whatever. If I am a big user, everybody else at work must only spend 10 minutes a month on the net, or less.

Matilda I envy your freedom.

Catherine

[Matilda]

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[DingoGirl]

cracking up at your query....this sounds like something I'd ask, if I had a real job.....let us know how you do, and if they catch you!

[tarnalberry]

IT is recording the IP addresses you're visiting anyway, so if they ever look at the logs, they'll know where you are "looking". (We just had an investigation recently...)

[Matilda]

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[DingoGirl]

Yes - lots of drama in OMG - and a whole lotta nothing in the 40-something

[Mango04]

I love the title of this thread . At my last job (when I had a real job LOL) I would always just make the screen really really small, so if someone did walk by, they couldn't really see what I was reading anyway. At the job I'm doing right now, I sit here and read magazines and books all day, and if someone walks by and sees me surfing the net they don't really care

[DingoGirl]

I love the title of this thread . At my last job (when I had a real job LOL) I would always just make the screen really really small, so if someone did walk by, they couldn't really see what I was reading anyway. At the job I'm doing right now, I sit here and read magazines and books all day, and if someone walks by and sees me surfing the net they don't really care

oh my gaaaaaaaaaaaawd, now THIS is a job I could do!! sounds perfect! um, Meredith, what is your actual title? and is this job for the whole time you're in Oz? maybe I could be your replacement!!

[Rikki Tikki]

IT is recording the IP addresses you're visiting anyway, so if they ever look at the logs, they'll know where you are "looking". (We just had an investigation recently...)

Tiffany:

Can they see even if I clear everything, like history and visited pages?

[Matilda]

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[Mango04]

oh my gaaaaaaaaaaaawd, now THIS is a job I could do!! sounds perfect! um, Meredith, what is your actual title? and is this job for the whole time you're in Oz? maybe I could be your replacement!!

Haha yeah come on over. I believe my title is...receptionist...nothing special. Thing is, the phone doesn't ring much, and when it does it's just so inconvenient to put down my magazine and answer it

[tarnalberry]

Tiffany:

Can they see even if I clear everything, like history and visited pages?

Yes. IT records packet traffic. (There is software and hardware available specifically to do this sort of thing. Some of it already bundled with server software.) Only the most paranoid companies record packets themselves, though many *many* companies record email. They can search all these records without ever coming and visiting your computer in person. And yes, they can, in theory, read your email without ever coming and visiting your computer in person, or without you ever knowing. An honest IT person will tell you this, though they'll also add that it is SOOOOOO not worth their time to ever do it.

[Matilda]

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[Matilda]

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[Mango04]

Making everything very tiny is an excellent idea. Honestly, I hadn't thought of that.

Unfortunately my vision is going rapidly downhill, and at the moment I'm trying to make everything enormously bigger. I've seen an opthalmologist and my vision is completely perfect, even down to aging approprialtly. Very upsetting!!!

Mango. I hope you're not getting bored reading your mags... maybe you should read a good book instead. My perfect job would be reading books, preferably in a lying down position.

Best wishes,

Matilda

Just make the window smaller. The words are still the same size. It's annoying b/c you have to scroll quite a bit with your mouse, but it kept me out of trouble

[tarnalberry]

I'm sure I responded to your post before, but my reply seems to have got lost or deleted. I'm at home!

Do you advise not using work internet access for personal things? Or are you saying this is just too much small beer for anyone to bother with if it's things like health issues?

Best wishes,

Matilda

Depends on your company, really. I'm a little bitter on the subject at the moment, but most companies I'm aware of have "personal use guidelines", realizing that some things are better done on company time, but they also state that excessive use (and some specific uses, like for a personal business, or porn, not like I'm saying those are applicable) are "inappropriate use of company resources". So, a few minutes during lunch or during your break, where you wouldn't have a problem if someone did see what you were doing, because you were on a break, isn't a problem, IMHO.

On the other hand, I've heard some companies, or just some managers, are PITA's about it, and don't want you to do any of it. I'm sure you would have heard that by now if it was the case, just as a matter of policy.

Being a health issue site won't make it small beans - it's all about how much time and bandwidth you use. This site won't raise any flags on bandwidth, but connection time could raise flags if it's a lot. (What's a lot? Oh, I don't know. An hour a day? Two? Three? Depends on your work, your manager, your company... Not like I haven't done more than that before, particularly when waiting for something or trying to reset my brain so it would work on my work again.) Chances are, you have nothing to worry about if you don't already think someone might think it's a real problem.

[Kaycee]

Only the most paranoid companies record packets themselves. An honest IT person will tell you this, though they'll also add that it is SOOOOOO not worth their time to ever do it.

We must have a paranoid company, being a school I guess that explains it. Our IT person tells us they keep an eye on thing, but never does our IT person say it is sooooo not worth their time reading the emails. I guess there is just so little email traffic, they have all the time in the world to read them. Matilda, at least it is not porn you are looking out, now that would be a different story.

Catherine

[debmidge]

I've worked for a bank and they block out certain websites some as stupid as state run lottery websites. They did audits at random (check thru main computer as to who is looking at at what site and when - no one ever knows). Place I work at now has similar rules and it's not a bank. Also I never used internet during work time for personal, at bank it wasn't even allowed during lunch hour; but co workers used to turn in those people who did use internet for personal use regardless if it was lunch hour or not.

Is it really worth getting a reprimand over? or losing your job?

[VydorScope]

Yes 100% of your intenet usage can be tracked, moniored viewed, by not only your company, but your ISP, and any of the 10 to 20 computers that you travel through to get to this site. NOTHING on the internet is anonmous. Everything CAN be tracked back to the machine used to do the post/email/etc. Just a mattter of time and resources to do it. As TarnalBerry said, various companies have wildy varring policies on what is and is not allowed.

If you have reason to worry about what your company will think of what your doing on the internet while at work, then prehaps you should not be doing it at work.

And, yes I am an "honest IT person"

At my company, I do not mess with monitoring ppl's usage. If I see a certin site is an issue, I just block that one site at the firewall and leave it at that. I am of the stance that as long as everyone is getting all their work done, and we have enough bandwithd for the money-making traffic, who cares what sites they are dealing with. (with the expection of sites that pose a sercurity risk of course)

Besides, I get enough spam mail, why would I want to read some one elses?

[happygirl]

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this is a recent article of interest to this topic.

[debmidge]

I've worked for a bank and they block out certain websites some as stupid as state run lottery websites. They did audits at random (check thru main computer as to who is looking at at what site and when - no one ever knows). Place I work at now has similar rules and it's not a bank. Also I never used internet during work time for personal, at bank it wasn't even allowed during lunch hour; but co workers used to turn in those people who did use internet for personal use regardless if it was lunch hour or not.

Is it really worth getting a reprimand over? or losing your job?

When I worked at bank, it was a major bank known throughout the world, co workers' would turn in other co workers when they saw them using internet for personal use - that's if the snitch was kissing butt and that was the rule there, rather than the exception. So even if you were on lunch hour you could either be found out through the firm's using spy equipment or have a co worker turn you into your Manager and the co worker would get "brownie" points for doing it. Needless to say, it was an unhealthy atmosphere and I rarely went to commercial websites even on lunch hour (their policy for internet use was NONE) and I have been gone from there for almost a year.

This brings me back to "is it really worth getting a reprimand over? or losing your job? ".

[Guest nini]

if you are running Windows at work, this trick used to work, don't know if it still does... hold down the start button and hit W at the same time... this minimizes EVERYTHING on your desktop quickly...