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."

Comments

Re:Wasn't yours to begin with....

[JMZero]

You're not really getting it. Maybe it's a good thing for your company to let you surf. But it's certainly not your right.

And it's the company who should get to decide how you can use the Internet while they're paying you.

At our company, we're pretty liberal - we don't care if people go look at Dilbert every morning. But when people spend their whole day playing Bingo, we fire them.

But of course that assumes there's actually value in labor, and that's anathema to the modern capitalist.

Who is this straw man "modern capitalist" you're talking about? Any manager worth his salt knows the value of morale - but they also know the value of getting work done.

A good one can balance the two, and that may require monitoring, blocking, or whatever.

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Office e-viruses - "The Microsoft Disease"

[Seth Finkelstein]

Per http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/reviews/subjects/f rench-disease.html

``The French Disease'' is what the Italians of the 16th century called syphilis; the French, naturally, called it the Italian Disease, or the Disease of Naples

In honor of this history of viruses, I propose that Linux users should consider, for office computer virusus, adopting the terminology "The Microsoft Disease".

Really. Because there's times I'm very, very, happy not to be using Windows, such as when the latest Outlook or Word infection is going around.

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