What Do You Say?

 

1. I guess I should wait until I get home first…

   Posted by tuffbeingright       02/02/2005  at  10:13 AM  



2. Since I use MY computer and recources to also do company business, I think there needs to be some leniency.  How many of you work more than 40 hours per week and receive no additional compensation?  Alot?  I thought so.

   Posted by CT       02/02/2005  at  10:42 AM  



3. Hey, CT, no one asked you to use your home computer to do company business.  If you need to, then they should furnish you a laptop.

   As for working w/o compensation, that’s your decision.  But because you choose to do it (for whatever reason) does not mean you can then use company time at work to do your own stuff.  If you did that, then you WOULDN’T be working w/o compensation, would you as one negates the other.

   Just some food for thought.

   Posted by Vilmar       02/02/2005  at  12:11 PM  



4. Remember that TV ad touting some service that promoted “full disclosure” (for cars)?  The ad showed what it would be like if we had that level of honesty in job interviews.
   
   Interviewer: What do you see as your strengths?

   Applicant:  I’m pretty good at looking busy.

   Interviewer:  Video games?

   Applicant:  And porn.

   Posted by Oink       02/02/2005  at  12:37 PM  



5. Vilmar, the really bad news is that most companies nowadays simply monitor employees’ web access and record it. They also have “acceptable use” policies which all employees are required to read and sign. What this means is that they are always watching and can (and will) fire you for violating that policy at any time if you’re recorded visiting a site that is in their (secret) list of banned sites. At three recent companies I worked at, Kim Du Toit’s site was on the banned list - I suppose because of the “gun thing”. Working in IT as I do I see these “banned” lists and have yet to figure out the logic behind some of them. I have, however, seen employees fired for violating these policies. Sometimes without even knowing which sites they surfed to that violated the policy.

   The moral of this story: if you are asked to sign an “acceptable use policy”, ask to see a list of banned sites.

   As for using the company network for personal use, companies have allowed employees to use their office phones for personal calls since day one. No one expects an employee to be in “solitary confinement” at his or her desk. That’s not right. On the other hand, it is up to the employee to use common sense.

   Posted by The Skipper       02/02/2005  at  12:57 PM  



6. Allan:  I totally agree.  Anyone on the job who fools around with extraneous websites, or sends other than the blandest emails, is asking to be fired.

   But, webfilters (e.g. at the library) don’t have a lick of common sense.  They block dog-breeding sites (’bitch’) and references to the ”Gay 90’s’ but allow the awfulest perverted websites to pass.  (probably not this one, though)
   

   Posted by Oink       02/02/2005  at  01:23 PM  

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