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Goofing off at work?

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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
 
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.
 
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: !!
 
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:
 
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...........
 
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.
 
"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
 
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....
 
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
 
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
 
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):{
 
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?
 
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.
 
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.
Click to expand...
 
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.
 
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.
 
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! :)
 
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