internet at work

[summerdays]

Depends if I'm in the office or out and about. In the office I couldn't tell you what is and isn't allowed as I just don't try to get to things like Facebook etc (I know I could waste too much time), though I know I can log onto my home email account (which I sometimes do to check past emails relevant to work). However I have my phone and if I needed to I could look up something but I'm not going to spend hours surfing on my phone.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Funny you should ask; if you'd asked yesterday I would not have been able to tell you, but since you ask today I can.

I discovered this afternoon that I can't get onto Cyclechat at work as there are filters "to protect me" - that's jolly good of them. Mind you having read some of the claptrap on here recently I reckon they are doing me a favour.

 

[CopperBrompton]

I am in the early stages of planning for taking over a practice (the principle is retiring soon), and one of the things I am certainly going to set up is that there will only be one computer on-line. All the remainder will be networked, but off line, (other than the secretary) so that we can focus on work.

With that attitude, I suspect you may struggle to recruit decent-quality people ...

My work internet is totally open, but then I'm on very good terms with my boss and head of IT.

 

[ASC1951]

...I discovered this afternoon that I can't get onto Cyclechat at work as there are filters "to protect me" - that's jolly good of them. Mind you having read some of the claptrap on here recently I reckon they are doing me a favour.

Ahem. It's to protect us - and it took ages to arrange!

 

[Hover Fly]

No restriction or-as far as I can make out-monitoring, but we are so busy that going online any more than briefly to order tools or materials is just not the done thing.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Ahem. It's to protect us - and it took ages to arrange!

fair point

 

[Octet]

As a Sys Admin and head internet gate keeper my mantra is "block everything and make 'em beg".

(I do work in a school and we do have a duty of care)

Don't forget "the look" when someone forgets their password!

 

[slowmotion]

If you do your job well, what does it matter if you prowl around the internet, or go out for constant ciggies too? Isn't this obsession with total commitment bollocks a bit "Apprentice"?

 

[MikeG]

With that attitude, I suspect you may struggle to recruit decent-quality people ......

No, not at all. As I said, I will be taking over an existing practice, and computerising it for the first time. Everyone draws at drawing boards, believe it or not. I will have much the same staff, who at the moment have no internet access whatsoever, and so for the first time they will be able to go online at work, albeit on a stand-alone machine. I've worked in a drawing office where everyone had internet access on their machines, and drawing time dropped by 30% when the internet arrived.

 

[Alex H]

Seems to be standard for Sysadmin's, they all should have little black tashes & goose step around, ***wonders*** if they become parking attendants in later life?

Alan...

No, they retire early and live in France

 

[summerdays]

[QUOTE 2978125, member: 9609"]we recently found out what our local council do when they are supposed to be working Link
Twitter 1,050,000 hits
Facebook 600,000
dating site 39,000
And i was bemused at the 37,800 hits on a job seekers site - do they really think they would get a better job in the real world.[/QUOTE]
The first one I accept as many departments run twitter accounts, so they do need to monitor them and it seems to be a useful way of spreading information. I now follow several council and police twitter accounts. The rest well I can't think of any work excuse for either.

 

[CopperBrompton]

No, not at all. As I said, I will be taking over an existing practice, and computerising it for the first time.

I was referring more to not trusting your staff than the specific instance of it. I've always found people prefer to be treated like grown-ups, given their goals and then trusted to get on with it. Hire the right people and you don't need to micromanage them. Treat them like kids and the good staff will leave.

 

[nazzurro19]

my works internet is semi filtered 18+ sites and some forums but im lucky if i have 5 minutes to sit down and use it

 

[MikeG]

I was referring more to not trusting your staff than the specific instance of it. I've always found people prefer to be treated like grown-ups, given their goals and then trusted to get on with it. Hire the right people and you don't need to micromanage them. Treat them like kids and the good staff will leave.

Gee thanks. I'll be sure to take your views into account. I mean, what's a 30% drop off in work output, hey?

 

[Dan B]

I mean, what's a 30% drop off in work output, hey?

Symptomatic of some deeper problem in the work environment, that's what