Bastards in production ruined it for everyone! The IS department pulls the plug company wide tomorrow for internet use. We have today to delete all non-work related files, videos, pictures, programs, and applications from our work stations. Everything! We can't even keep personal wallpaper - we get a f***ing blank screen. Nothing. Email is the only thing that stays. Gawd, this is crap.

Have fun and play safe everyone. If you're trying to reach me through PM, be patient. It'll have to wait until I get home.

John -- who will try to get through the H-T day-time withdrawls by closing my eyes and visualizing Froggie Panties. On the flip-side, maybe I'll get some work done.

 

gotta be a way around that. if they are leaving email open.. >=]

 

Sounds like they are unplugging the proxy server and leaving the email server up.

 

time to go wireless! Companies are stoopid, if you get the work done when it needs to be done, who cares what you do when they don't have enough work for ya?

 

You're probably seeing the beginning of a trend. Large corporations can afford to have people sitting around monitoring people. It's the smaller ones that do not, and will likely start taking the "off" approach. IMO, internet connections are one of the worst things to happen to workplace productivity.

If it were my company I'd shut it off too... -- and yes, I'm one of the largest abusers in my office, but that's due primarily to my job, and the fact that I do more work from home at night than in the office...

 

John, you know my email address, send messages there if you need anything.

 

But I am sorry for your loss...

 

LOL, I agree. I was a huge abuser at my last job, as were practically everyone around me. I think the web is great for certain jobs, but for others it only provides a distraction...that gets addictive.

 

OWNED!

 

I agree 100%.

 

What the hell did the Production guys do to bring on this wrath?? And what the hell do production workers need internet access for anyway?

Suck's dude...

 

Production workers are the worst.. they use more public terminals and are less accountable than someone in their own cube.

Too much internet surfing was part of the reason I got layed off... BUT no matter what I still got more work done (with LESS help from others) in my area.. OH! I worked for a HUGE company!

Oh well.. no internet is a great idea from a buisness standpoint.

 

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That's me abusing it one last time.

 

Heh- I wish someone here would pull the plug on the Internet too... well, at least just Honda-tech. I call it the Honda-Tech crack-pipe, I just can't put it down!

...hmmm, wait, too bad I AM the IS department. Oh well, I suppose I need to learn how to exercise self discipline. The funniest thing is that I have all the cool bad-*** monitoring stuff setup so I can keep OTHER employees in line regarding Internet usage. I can see what they surf in real-time, email, and even retrieve their downloads from the proxy servers cache (give it a file type and it will find it in the cache, re-build it, and tell you who downloaded it). Of course I would only do this hypothetically speaking.

Sorry to hear it John, but like you said, maybe it's a Good Thing. You're probably like me though, I really don't get behind in my work so much as it's just slow sometimes and HT is an easy out when I could be making work for myself.

 

 

Working at an ISP is the best in that respect I guess....if they pulled the plug they wouldn't be able to pay me.

 

I'll save all the threads and email them to you.