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No More Unrestricted Internet At Work
Schlemphfer writes: "You can forget about using private email or surfing the web while at work if these bozos have their way. And judging by the Reuters article, it looks like they might. Basically what they're doing is trying to scare senior management into thinking that allowing employees unrestricted use of the net will cripple a company with viruses and lawsuits."
I'm the guy with the passwords to the routers
;)
connected to the T1 lines.
There are already a few hundred routes in the
tables... who's going to notice everything from
my workstation misses the filtering appliance?
Oh that's right, it's my job to make sure no one
*else* does this, too.
Dear sir,
::wanders off to look for the coffee pot::
Please speak to my employer.
-Sara
[slashdot for mental health!]
What is more productive?
/. to participate in brain-stimulating discussion regarding a variety of issues from copyright law to hardware to GPL issues. Returns to work refreshed and ready for a challenge.
Scenario A: Employee needs break desperately, has net access and goes to
Scenario B: Employee needs break desperately, does not have net access, wanders outside to smoke and oggle female co-workers. Returns to work with a hardon and a brain that is more fuzzed than before.
Proposed rule: Limit all NON-GEEK employees from accessing the internet. They mess with the bandwidth that could be better spend downloading the latest Slackware distro.
-Sara
We went the other route: 100% Mac on the desktop.
;-)
Speaking as an Apple employee and shareholder, thank you. Tell all your friends
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Do you realize how much time people waste talking on the phone? One guy next to me used to spend at least an hour a week chattering about bridge. It was very annoying. But he did good work so there.
Do businesses realize that people might call up phone sex lines? They can also contact prostitutes, drug dealers, hit men, or even rat out the company to the SEC/FBI. The list of bad contacts goes on and on. I say, "Let's rip those phones out of the wall."
And what about the friggin door. Many good companies like to say that their most important assets walk out of the door every evening. Hah. Do you realize the trouble they can find when they leave the protective womb? There are drugs, criminals, blackmailers and spousal distraction units. Heck, there are even video games. I say, "Just lock them up for good." To heck with the door.
Letting people do these little things is far from bad for business.
Except that it can be quite bad when your client comes in, sits down at a computer, opens a folder and discovers the gigs of porn and mp3s.
Dinivin
They won't stop me-
I'm a BOFH!
Besides, I'd rather have the users porn surfing than asking me about excel and access anyway.
SideshowBob- besides the cool name, you are wise beyond your years (even if you are 200 years old!). My company uses Netscape mail, which is sure to get all kinds of ridicule from people here. Guess what? We have had 1 virus invasion in 4 years, and that was one of the IIS viruses (or is that viri?) that hit our development boxes. We have dedicated staff to that track email viri, we use Norton AV, and we get emails to update our virus definitions before Yahoo posts a story about the current virus invasion. Basically, I believe that most companies give mere lip service to REAL security, while my company busts ass trying to keep us safe.
Shit, this is about my 15th post already. All your companies suck. (except sideshow- he has a clue, for fucks sake!)
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
Evil corporate America wants people to stop screwing around on eBay and Hotmail instead of doing real work on company time? Someone notify Ralph Nader!
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We should shut down employee cafeterias because food can bring harmful bacteria into the company and we might get sued.
--Blair
No real management is going to take this seriously.
Hahahahahhahahahahahahahaha
You're so naive its almost cute.
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