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Cracking Down on MP3s at the Office
jhaberman writes "News.com has a story
about how corporations are now starting to crack down on networked MP3's, not
necessarily for the reasons you might think." Talks about legal issues,
as well as bandwidth issues, and the simple issue of employees wasting
their employers time.
Yo yo yo This looks like a job fo' me
Just like you shouldn't be playing Flash games at the office either. Quit stealing time from your employer and start working.
"I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." - George Bush
Crack that shit, yo!
When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of penis. My father and his boyfriend's vegetarian health store contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making penis, anus, and a multitude of other stinky snacks. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my father prepared penis my family.
As I grew older, and began my journey to homosexual enlightenment, the memories of my penis-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 penises... The day I placed a warm penis between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a penis to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only penis can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with penis, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Rob Malda and Jeff Bates seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flesh, blood, semen, and love.
By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my health club and my love for penis, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu..The ultimate penis. My journey took me to the many streets of LA, many days away from the health club. My hunger for penis became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I fucked upon. My mouth, sore from sucking, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of vegetarian cuisine AND my love for penis. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a faggot, a secret pervert hired by Sarcasta BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL penis.
My adoration for genetalia has placed me within an awkward position. Many faggots refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The penises do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my vegeables. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a faggot is complex.
My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a FAGGOT--But I also enjoy penis. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a faggot who requested a penis, would you submit to his will?
- A Penis-Eatin' Faggot
There is plenty of HD space to go around, a few gigs of MP3's aren't such a big deal. And most of my coworkers love listening to ZZ Top, TMBG and Bach on heavy rotation. The only thing I can really see them objecting to is stealing IP on company time but come one, everybody does it!
And you think that's great?
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.. just how human being behave, cause they are not machines.
People are not robots, they are not computers, nor simple machines that use computers. We are breathing, living, human beings. And we cant work all the time, no matter what ppl tell.
It's been found that entertainment creates a better work enviornment. People are more willing to work when they have a more relaxing enviornment (When was the last time you got any work done by never taking breaks and forever working (and i mean minus mountain dews, mp3 audio on head, and the occasional
I think your company is doomed. Please find a good shrink to explain to your exectivies
Technically any non work related material on a company computer is not allowed. But if an employee has mp3's on their PC's no one cares. It's the file servers we care about. Late last year I started searching for MP3's and other media files on our file servers and found around 6GB worth in our company of 700. Including MP3's I found plenty of porn. Including some very sick stuff. I just deleted all the files. I did this every few weeks and soon people got the message. At one point I found a female employee with lesbian porn in her home folder. She was fired.
I stopped the auditing for a few months and the mp3's came back. So I deleted them again. And that's the policy. If you put MP3's onto company file severs they get deleted without any notice. No extra software required to do the searches either. Were on NT/2000 so I just PC Anywhere or terminal server into the server and do a search locally for the offending file types. I can do all of our servers on a friday morning while eating and having my morning tea or coffee.
shut the fuck up, you whiney little bastard. you sound like another one of those lazy fucks that keeps the gene pool polluted with bad genes. for christ's sake, I can HEAR you getting fatter. There are people out there that would that job in a heartbeat, sans mp3s and software that doesn't belong to them, and do it standing on their head! If you like to have money in your pocket and food on the table, you'll follow the godddamn rules. I would never hire a useless, pudgey bastard like you.