[greyhound]

Honestly, how many of us currently waste a lot of time at work on THR?

I for one am starting to feel guilty. Gotta cut back.:(

(I guess this is related to firearms 'cause if there were no firearms I wouldn't be goofing off).

[Dot_mdb]

Shhhhhhhhhh. Not so loud. Of course I would never think of reading this forum while in the office. ;)

Just had to do a fast cover up when someone walked in.

Bill

[JSolie]

Not that I'm complaining, the T1 at work sure makes the graphics come across a little faster than my piddly dial-up at home :D

[10-Ring]

Hey, they owe me! ;) Goofing off is in my job description!

[Mike Irwin]

Right now I am, but it's a self-defense mechanism. I've been working a LOT of hours this week trying to get a users manual out the door, and there are times when I simply need to kick back and think about something else.

I work in a small group that supports a lot of active projects (see above) in my office.

If the individual projects are slow and not cranking out a lot of work, my job is by definition going to be slow. It runs in cycles. So there are times when literally surfing THR is about the only thing I have to do.

[Newt]

I'm lucky enough to have a boss (A.K.A. - megcatia) that goofs on THR with me. It's one of my daily tasks that I'm assigned. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. :D

Newt

[JohnBT]

I have yearly production requirements and generally sort of set my own schedule. If I goof off at the office I get to work at home until I catch up.

John

[TallPine]

Yeah, and what about all the hours I lay awake at night thinking about work ...?

I think it comes out even in the end.

[Bravo11]

HEY NEWT,
Are you over there goofing off in THR again.
Projects are cyclic. Sometimes we're overloaded and sometimes we have slack. Work a little while check, for new posts....

[dleong]

Yeah, and what about all the hours I lay awake at night thinking about work ...?

I think it comes out even in the end.
I believe you are right. I think enough about work outside of work to not have to go to work. In fact, they should pay me overtime for all the extra thought. Besides, it's the thought that counts, isn't it? :D

DL

[jade]

hey i'm working and reading thr. thr on one machine and installing windows 2000 server on another. the install will take a while and then there will be all the updates, yada yada. as long as i do it right the first time, i won't have much else to do but surf the net. :D

[MessedUpMike]

As we're still required to sit watch at nights I prefer to think of myself as "staying awake" vs simply goofing off. Maybe in 25 years IF the city decided to catch up with late 1960s technology and install station alerting equiptment then maybe I'll be goofing off. Until then I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.
The high road is cool but it pales into comparrison to getting a run and going up and down the road all night long, so it's not like I'd not "work" to read my forums.

[444]

I have spent a lot of time surfing the web at work, but I am not goofing off. As a firefighter, we have a certain amount of work to do each day, then we sit around and wait for the next call. We arn't allowed to watch TV (I don't like TV anyway) or sleep until 1900 hrs. But they have no problem with using the computer. I have tried to wean myself off of spending so much time on-line; I have been trying to read more, work out more, etc.

[ShaiVong]

I'm in the same boat as many of you guys. I'm a summer co-op at a power plant, and i've pretty much worked myself out of a job. I have scheduled maintainence to do, but once thats done (under a day), and my boss has no other projects for me to work on.... THR time!

I spend at least a couple of hours a day, average, on THR at work.. But I don't have anything else to do (I even ASK if they have anything else for me to do!).

Upside is, they want me back during school and vacations :cool:

[KpEng16]

Yes, but I still finish all I need to get done. I know when to get down to buisness when the deadline gets close. I work better under pressure anyway ! :D

-Bill

[bogie]

I'm with Mike on this - sometimes the projects are cookin' and other times things are just dead... And sometimes I've just gotta interact with humanity...

[Larry Ashcraft]

Well, yeah, but its MY company. Actually I have to sit at the computer most of the day doing laser engraving, with the occasional run to the computer diamond engraver (10 feet away) and I figure the computer can do two things at a time (surf and engrave). :D

[Stinger]

You guys have jobs? :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

Suckers :neener:


Stinger

[DigMe]

Studies have shown that people often steal things from work and then have the attitude of "well, they owe me because of this and this." It's viewed as payment for extra things done even if there was an understanding going into the job that you would be expected to do exactly that for the amount of money that you are making. It's funny that I'm seeing a lot of the same things here. I'm not condemning you because I've done it too. Just kinda funny that a lot of people justify...especially if it's in your company rules that you aren't supposed to use the internet/computer for fun/personal business. I started my job working at a school in the middle of the year last year and never went through formal training or saw a rule book. Now I'm going through yearly inservice and I'm seeing that I was breaking the rules all last semester by surfing in my freetime. Oops.

brad cook

[hksw]

Only at lunch time (but occassionally goes over 1 hour) and sometimes after quitting time.

[spacemanspiff]

i've lowered the expectations my boss has of my work performance, so that i can goof around on the internet all day and call the little bit of work i actually do a full days worth.

before we had the internet, another coworker and i would find new, ummm, 'scientific experiments' with various objects and gravitational effects of things dropped from the roof of the building.
we'd also have 'slug-bug' wars. any vw bug that drove by and you'd hear footsteps stomping from one end of the office to the other. we also used to do line drills, practicing for football.

[RAY WOODROW 3RD]

I plead the 5th do to the fact that it may incriminate me.

I'm in the same boat as the majority of you. I'm either real busy or its real dead.

In military terms "I'm standing by to stand by!"

I love 2nd shift!

[synoptic]

All day long. I have actually had to do some work this week because my boss is in training in Houston, but normally I sit here and read posts. I have started playing DOOM on occasion because there is only so much internet a person can take.

[Atticus]

Digme: There's some truth there....but everyone takes breaks, and I don't see the difference between sipping coffee and talking golf vs surfing here for ten minutes. I spend a lot of time crunching numbers, working with speadsheets, and writing reports. If I don't get a "pause for the cause" every once in a while, I tend to veg out anyway, resulting in more errors.

Hmmmm...that's good, I'll have to add that to my personnel file.

[5ptdeerhunter]

I have posted a few times during 3rd and 4th hour drafting. But only when we had substitutes. This year it will be during either 1st and 2nd or 5th and 6th. But I will be here.

[greyhound]

Don't get me wrong, I'm still getting my work done, currently preparing for my company's annual financial audit.

But still, I guess I could be working on all those "special projects" that are always in the background.

Oh well, I'll slow down tomorrow. Yeah, that's the ticket!:D

[Mark Tyson]

You're all FIRED, you slackers! LOL

[Hkmp5sd]

I thought reading THR was part of my job description.

[Bruce H]

All work and no enjoyment makes you look like Diane Feinstein. Take breaks, get the job done right the first time and on time and enjoy life. I work for myself and have told myself to surf. Might learn something.

[Deepdiver]

Well, I am pretty much retired. Too old and ugly for anyone to hire me anymore.

So, I spend most of my day chatting about guns, women, and liquor .....and, then I waste the rest of the day, after the "secretary of war" comes home :evil: !!

[Moparmike]

I am a computer lab operator in a university. If no students are needing help, and everything is going smoothly in the lab (no spontaneous printer combustion, computers networking themselves into Skynet, etc.) then surfing is the only thing left to do and is generally encouraged. As long as I am not playing games, I am in the clear.

Sadly enough, there are 7-hour shifts where all of my online time is spent on THR.:what:

[Newton]

Our "Websense" network content filtering software has not yet recognized THR as a gun related website, all other firearm related content is carefully screened and has been effectively put in the same category as pornography.

Until that time however, and when my schedule permits...........

[Spieler]

I work a graveyard shift and have about 2-3 hours of down time each night due to reduced operational requirements and I do most of my daily web surfing and posting at that time.

[Mike Irwin]

"You're all FIRED, you slackers! LOL"

Tell me that any of the last couple of nights when I put in a full day at work and then ANOTHER full day of work at home.

The last couple of nights I've worked until 4 a.m. on this project.

Fire me. I need some sleep! :D

[Bowlcut]

my job has me answering the phone either 2 days or 1 day a week. I have to sit there and listen to some of stupidest things sometimes. so i USED to spend maybe 30min-1hour(split up over 3 or 4 sessions) a day on here. But the boss (IS manager) blocked THR.org. :fire: :fire: :fire: sucks. but i will find away around novel's boardermanager i swear :D. i still have my other boards, and few sites i check...but thr was great reading while at work. guess since TFL isnt banned yet, i can finish up the lawdog files and other things that i missed....

[Mike Irwin]

Bowl,

It's funny. A few months ago they redid the filters on the network at the office to filter out anything related to "weapons." I can't even visit the old TFL, or manufacturer websites.

But I can still access THR no problem.

[Bowlcut]

well working actualy in the IS department, and spending a good deal of my time with an admin or in the comm room....i know what it takes to do those filters. the boss physicaly typed in to block www.thehighroad.org. and if i could set me up a redirecto for it to be like .net i could get around it just fine ;). but i figure after a few months we will get a gun friendly admin to remove it from the list :D or maybe i can hack a novel product

[S_O_Laban]

Holy cow!! if it wasn't for broadband at work I would have to go to the library to cruise the net. After doing my daily routes (PM) I pretty much have the rest of the midnight shift to surf unless I get a call/calls for reactive maintenance. I glad to see that I'm not the only one "educating" ones' self at work. :D :D

[Stetson_CO]

I have already checked on all outstanding issues. So, until someone has a printer that won't stay on the network or needs me to trace Oracle print job files...I'm here. I have already read Oreilly's Network Print(3x) and I NEED a break.

3 more weeks then I can surf all I want until someone else hires me.


c):{

[ShaiVong]

There are smarter IT guys here than me, but try getting an IP spoofer, might get around the block.

[Bravo11]

In addition to not allowing gun related sites through, what else is blocked by your company? I'm assuming probably porn. What about golf? Isn't it a sport where a projectile is hurled at a target?

[WhoKnowsWho]

My work did a pretty good job of locking out outside websites... only the work network sites are allowed, and I haven't gotten around it except for the news groups, bah, lots of "I want my AK to go full auto..." type stuff. Anyways, I don't have time 99% of the time anyways.

[MicroBalrog]

I don't have a job (graduated from highschool this year), so I'm waiting for my IDF enrollment while reading THR.:D


And yes, I have boradband.:D

[CZ-100]

Hey... IM at work Now.... :what:

[einnor1040]

They blocked this where I work.

http://www.dogbegone.com/video.htm

I sent it to a guy I work with and a couple hours later it was blocked.

[Bobarino]

i own the store that i work in, so i can goof off alll i want. :neener:

i have to be careful though, my boss can be a real jerk sometimes. :-)

Bobby

[AJ Dual]

There was that once scene in Unintended Consequences where the benchrest shooter, and the Ful Auto aficianado were being hunted by the ATF and the reluctant FBI agent, and as the FA guy was acting as spotter for the BR shooter, he was amazed when he could see the contrail of the bullet in flight.

Now I know what that looks like. :eek: That effect in The Matrix isn't so far off, although I'm sure it's markedley less for low velocity pistol bullets, compared to a varmint round...

They blocked this where I work.

http://www.dogbegone.com/video.htm

I sent it to a guy I work with and a couple hours later it was blocked.

[mephisto]

I have about 2 hours of work a day. part of my job is to make sure the internet is allways running and the server is up. Plus i have to make sure all of our testing platforms are running in the right cycle. Damn i do alot. How do i find the time to surf.

[cordex]

Any of you victims of blockage try using public proxy servers? If one gets blocked, no worries! There are still umpteen thousand from around the world out there, and they tend to come and go which kind of defeats blocking specific IPs. Many even operate on port 80, so without closing down 99% of all HTTP transfers, they can't just block a port range (though, closing :8080 and :3128 does catch quite a few).
Many browsers can even be configured to automatically use a proxy server, so it is entirely transparent for you.

Caution: A smart admin can still see that you are using a proxy by browsing the logs. If getting around your prohibited sites list is cause for dismissal, don't do it.

[blue86buick]

For now I plead the 5th, but from home I shall reveal the truth.. :)

BTW, I don't have any proxy's or filters to get around, but just for privacy/no log files, for a while I was SSH'ing to a GNU/linux box, then using lynx, links, and elinks...no pretty pictures, but it got the job done. And, nothing in the IE cache, and low bandwidth! :)