I work at a desk job in an office where a lot of websites are blocked on the main server including facebook, twitter and youtube. The saving grace was that I could still access hotmail when I couldn’t read any more about gender and vulnerability.
So what happens today? Hotmail gets blocked too! no wonder 70% of the people working here said they would take the same job with the same pay at a different organization. —Cut-off
This article appears in Jul 22-28, 2010.
Maybe, just MAYBE, those sites are blocked so, oh, I dunno, people will actually do their fucking jobs instead of fucking around on company time?
What a crazy notion! Focusing on what you’re being paid for. MY GOD where do i come up with this shit?
Though, if I ran an organization and people spent their time on FB and twitter and youtube instead of getting their work done, I’d can them. Most organizations aren’t so keen on paying people to do nothing. Maybe some people can get their work done and still have time to screw around, but a lot can’t. And besides: if you can still get your work done in a full day’s work PLUS have time to fuck around on the internet, the organization is over paying you if you’re being paid based on the time you spend at work, and perhaps a reduction in work hours is appropriate.
I guess what I’m saying here is: I don’t blame employers for blocking these sites because afaik (and please, if there is, tell me where I can send my resume to) organizations don’t have positions that entail “creep your friends on face book” or “update your twitter account to tell people you’re at work, but on twitter so you’re obviously doing no work.”
20, 30, 40 years ago, employees wouldn’t’ve dreamt of making something like this an issue, because you didn’t have these slack ass kids in the work place who are more concerned about leaving the office early so they can get to yoga class than actually doing their jobs.
Well Played PK and may I be the first to welcome you to “The League of Extraordininarily Cranky Old Bastards” Repeat after me:
PULL UP YOUR FRIGGIN’ PANTS AND PUT YOUR BALL CAP ON STRAIGHT!
There, you’re in. Welcome Brother (er, Sister)>: )
kickyoutube.com beats most filters.
Depending on what your job is though, sometimes those sites can be useful tools. The being said, I pretty much only check my hotmail on my lunch hour, and although I glance at twitter on a regular basis I usually don’t spend too much time clicking on links unless they pertain to my job.
maybe so you actually work. DUH.
I’m betting Kay will have a strong opinion on this ha ha
To add to BF’s bet: she’ll probably be quoting some kind of law as well stating that people have a right to surf and not to tread on her.
You’re suppose to work, not surf.
kitty, perhaps people have jobs that entail monitoring for issues rather than going through a steady inbox/outbox workflow.
When something happens, the company NEEDS someone to pounce on it, but when things are all cheery and swell… what is there to do?
just a possibility I suppose…
I have managed to both multi-task at my job, AND by-pass most internet “blocks” 😀
As I’m within 3 months of retiring (voluntarily) I don’t give a fiddlers fuck if they discipline me. I’ve already told the HR guy he is a clueless moron, yes I actually used that term.
Life is good when you’re an old fucker.
next thing to look forward to Basil….
senility
I imagine it’s because your employer isn’t paying you to surf the net, they are paying you to do your job.
OMG! You mean employers actually expect employees to be productively earning their salaries instead of doing personal things on social network sites during workhours? Who’d-a-thunk-it?
And here we all are… during work hours… go figure. They haven’t thought to block the Coast yet!
OP: Here’s a hint for you. Use Sympatico’s website to access your hotmail instead. Works like a charm for when Hotmail is blocked. 🙂
hold the fuck on a second, you are working and checking personal; mail web sites, huh, fucking huh. you would have your ass out the fucking door in 10 working for me and doing that shit. okay o.p., go find another job where you can goof off on company time and payroll. you must think you are fucking better than all the others, and i’m glad your boss cut those time wasting fucking sites. now all he has to do is get rid of all the porn you watch next.
Internet access is what passes for a ‘job benefit’ these days, unlike in a previous era when real jobs with real wages paid you enough to raise a family on and gave you real job benefits like extended health care and a defined benefit pension plan and you weren’t competing with dollar an hour workers in a sweat shop in Asia somewhere so that the multinational corporation that bought out the local company you worked for before downsizing you could make a huge pile of cash and pay its CEO 300 times what his average worker earns in a year and by the way welcome to the 21st century!
So pay me just above minimum wage and no benefits to speak of and no job security beyond next Friday but for the love of Christ don’t take away my internet access!!
I have decided to structure my rants as single run-on sentences broken up into paragraphs.
Hell who ever heard of a VIRUS spreading via email, and while IT departments can filter their own servers, they can’t filter hotmail, yahoo, etc
Think about that when you’re checking your personal email from work and crapping your WORK PC up with spyware and viruses.
Go ahead and blame the stupid computer and the lazy IT department, when they don’t rush right to your desk to clean up your mess.
“But I couldn’t do my work, it got a virus and IT can’t come till tomorrow to fix it”
zZz: when organizations need those type of resources they tend to not block those sites, or gain access to certain individuals or certain work stations. I worked for DND and sometimes we did have to do outside research (DND blocks pretty much EVERYTHING) and they have open connection computers for us to use.
Oh and Ivan: I yelled at some kid to get off my damn lawn the other day. Even had a broom in my hand! OH NOES.
Excellent young Skywalker. Let the hate flow through you.
<3
I have Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail access at work. *grin*
hmmm, this is totally off topic but hey, i’m in a nosy mood. basil fawlty what part of England are you from?
I dont know if its as simple for you as it is for me where i work, but they have blocked facebook for us. but it can be bypassed simply by adding an s in the url
http://www.facebook.com/ to get to facebook right.
but if you type in https://www.facebook.com/ it’ll go right through. now i dont know much about computers, nor how complicated your block is, but its something to try…
VOT – Yorkshire born, Yorkshire bred strong in the arm and weak in the head.
excellent, but do you like corrie st.? or loathe it—>giv over
One of my favorite Python bits. Yorkshire Playwright and his Coal Mining Son.
“Toongsten Carbide Drills!. What bloody ‘ell is toongsten carbide drill?”
“There’s nowt wrong wiv gala looncheons, lad. I’ve ‘ad more gala looncheons than you’ve ‘ad ‘ot meals.”
teehee, you do the phonetic spelling so well admiral^^
corrie used to be interesting, now it’s crap – I haven’t watched it in ages and would be hard pressed to identify half the cast. Ken is now on viagra and has probably fucked his way through half the females in Weatherby.
Did you see the retro show? they said Kens real name is Roache and that he is known as cockroach as he likes to screw around.
Thanks Painey. Yorkshire accent’s my absolute fave. Speaking of which, it’s about time History Telly reran Sharpe.
I wish I was Sean Bean (now look sad and say d’oh)
D’oh. >: (
yeah he is a hottie mr. bean…sexy rawk. hey baz did you know that pillock boy-ken, his son is the d.a. on law and order. ken is the only original cast member and i loathe him
I’m too busy eating my pork pie and mushy peas and washing it down with Tetleys Bitter.
I’m pleased that Pete’s has some competition when it comes to uh hum English delicacies, not a phrase that trips off the tongue too easily. It took me 5 years of living in Canada to unclog my arteries, the Keiths helped.
Bahawhawhawhaw – my first hub-unit was from Halifax, Yorkshire, ironically enough, and all I seem to remember from that time was his frequent use of:
‘EEEEEE, by gum!’
i used to work with someone from birmingham, they were fun to mimic lol
Birminghamistan you mean – it’s the second largest city in England and has one of the largest immigrant populations. Not criticising this at all, just pointing out a fact.
They do have an odd accent – the hardest accent to understand is a Geordie one, from Newcastle area.
The Jocks from the Outer Hebrides also take some figuring out, no wonder the Englisgh thought the sheep more valuable and easier to understand and that’s why they shipped the jocks off to NS!!
I always liked Flashman’s description of why he preferred India to Scotland. Can’t repeat it verbatim because of gross political incorrectness (He He)but the upshot is, milder climate and the natives were friendlier and easier to comprehend. G.M Fraser, being a Scot, makes it all the funnier.
well whatever you call them, he was a douchebag lol
Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE may have been a cad, a rake , a wastrel, a bounder, a poltroon, even. But he, Sir, was no douchebag.
um, ivan i’m not a sir
hey your picture is back vot, ivan was just being polite he didn’t know^^
I think I knew at one point but forgot in the heat of the moment ^^. Leaping precipitously to the defence of fictional characters is my stock in trade >; )
hahahaha ok. you are forgiven this time. and yes i put the pic back for kicks again. i figure if martym can do it so can i
yea Ivan it would be treasonous to maleness to call that lovely young lady a sir (sorry if i go a little LS on you madam ) 🙂
it’s ok martym i’ll be sure to take it down before he zZz and NGF get lurking around
yea i can so relate with all my beeatches forever creeping me (it’s sooo degrading) 😉
nice vot…big old girls say even more
why don’t you go outside and play hide and go fuck with yourself. from the audio definition of fuck…sorry couldn’t load it. funny fucking grammar
what the fuck did you say to me? hahahaha
wait, what did I miss?
sorry it is called “the definition of fuck” i am a laggard and can’t upload on here. it’s really funny…someone assist me please. it’s audio only
I could only find one with a video PG.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgjIsaq8y0A…
that is the one…merci mario racoon^^
The Happy Parade has passed, I’ve got a migraine the size and shape of a goat’s skull pressing on my medulla oblongata and if I hear one more Lady Gaga toon I’m climbing to the top of city hall with an AK and enough 7.62 hollow points to cater an afghan wedding reception. At least during the Holiday Parade of Unutterable Despair we have potent potables in our sippy cups. Over for another year and no overly enthusiastic spectator has come crashing through our windows. Can’t beat those odds forever. >: )
oh man i forget you were on the route on saturday. did you see any greyhounds? my brother lives near the commons and during the sound-check his furniture was rattling…hope you get out soon but i know you tend to work late…thirsty rawk. hope your tete feels better soon
No grauenhunden. The boss saw a weiner dog with hot dog buns taped to his haunches. That’s just wrong on a whole bunch of levels, but we should thank our lucky stars that nobody tried to pull a lime green, ribbed, pre-lubed condom over him. I saw a bunch of foul,diseased, 47 year old-fish-dogs but they were bipeds of the kind I encounter downtown every saturday and I seriously doubt they had anything to do with the parade. Headache was mostly hunger induced and easily rectified. Howz tings in yo neck o’ da woods?
no dogs, but some nice folks. almost beer time. the boy and the bear are in the big smoke…we usually get some good adoption prospects from the happy parade. the corbies are making progress with juniour, he cracked some peanuts open, all by his lonesome. i was 2 feet away from bob this am…they like me they really do. happy tomorrow off rawk
Me too, and another week’s vacation from Dunder Mifflin begins Monday. I winder what I’ll catch this time around. Glad to hear Jr.s doing well and hasn’t felt the need to test the dreaded transformer. I’ve had my fill of empty nest trauma and listening to Elton warble about “The Circle of Life” really doesn’t help. I hear the call of my balcony and a couple of cold MGDs under the stars only 6 hours hence. Loved your story from the other side, about the shoplifter inadvertently feeding the birds. I love it when skells do good unintentionally.
aha, vacation time for the commander. you are under strict orders to keep us working bitches entertained. that particular skell is well known to me and my league, but he has never been that entertaining afore…glugglugglugrawk
The weather is looking good and so far the fecal shittiform count in the lake has not yet reached officially gross levels so we’ll be getting in a lot of early morning splashy-splashy. Seems to be more waterweeds this year; Banook needs manatees. Ork, ork. (I know, that’s a seal – manatees are pretty close mouthed, that’s why they make good criminal accomplices)
the house is very calm because i am sans 2 giant male bipeds…but there are always the critters. chicken was on the menu for all. i*mouse ears* chicken, not that pumped up arnie like chicken
I love nothing more than relaxing on the balcony after a long day and The Countess loves to come out and join me, usually by jumping up on the railing. Since 4 years of apartment living have turned her a bit, shall we say, Junoesque any fast movement or turning around is accompanied by dangerous shifts of center of gravity and occasional frantic scrabbling of claws, putting my heartrate in near tachycardia levels.
Whoever said owning a cat could lower blood pressure was clearly avin’ a larf.
the “tard” may he rest in decomposed pieces, always lived on the edge…”cept he wasn’t built for it. other than booboo a 4 lb. calico the tard purred the loudest^^rawr to all you leos
Watching our girl do “monorail” from ground level is hilarious. The overhang on both sides is quite epic. She also purrs quite readily and her idea of a compliment is to put her exquisitely furry bum in one’s face when trying to sleep.
hey that’s my complimentary action also 🙂
How about you DO YOUR JOB instead of dicking around on the internet.
>: ) Does it pay off for you in terms of big bowls of IAMS and vigorous patting?
martym is a jack russell^^^our remaining feline is de-evolving into a kitten, sleeps on my head kneading my hair into an even messier state
Now who really spends every single minute of their 9 – 5 office job working? Really? None of you ever talk to your co-workers about something non work-related at all, ever? Never look at something far more interesting happening outside your cubicle? Never even spend a bit of extra time on the toilet? Nooo of course not, you’re all such perfect keeners!
What’s the problem checking Hotmail or Facebook or the news for a couple minutes of the day then, especially on your lunch hour or breaks? Consider it an employee benefit. It’s not the middle-ages anymore, employers have learned that a happy employee is a productive employee. That means not sweating the small stuff and making people hate their jobs.