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Judge Rules in Favor of Websurfing at Work

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the validating-slashdot-at-work dept.

MirrororriM writes "According MSNBC article, a judge has ruled in favor of a worker that was repeatedly warned for surfing the internet on company time. Only a "reprimand" is a fitting punishment - not termination. From the article: 'It should be observed that the Internet has become the modern equivalent of a telephone or a daily newspaper, providing a combination of communication and information that most employees use as frequently in their personal lives as for their work.'"

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  1. I love my job! by crazyjeremy · · Score: 5, Funny
    So, they give me a laptop... I get multple T3 internet connections, pay me to work... free bagels on Fridays, free coffee every day, and they can't fire me for searching for funny pictures and adding them to http://users.mtrx.net/funnypics?

    Wow... cool!

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    1. Re:I love my job! by Quaoar · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is Jerry, you know, your boss? You're fired. Be sure to return your office supplies to Karen on your way out.

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      I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
    2. Re:I love my job! by catch23 · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is Kevin, your boss. You can given Karen your office supplies too. I am not going to babysit kids posting on Slashdot during working hours.

    3. Re:I love my job! by TWX · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is Karen, your office manager. I don't want your damn office supplies, putting them away distracts from my time spent surfing the web. Just pretend that you used them up and throw them in the trash can on your way out...

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      Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
    4. Re:I love my job! by Golias · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hi Karen, this is Ed, the CEO.

      Sorry your web surfing was interrupted by fired employees trying to hand you old office supplies. Please, please, don't quit. As you know, without a good office manager, the whole company is doomed because all executives are helpless children. A fruit basket has been sent to your desk, and your clothing stipend will be doubled. Also, your job title has been escalated yet again, from "secretary" to "receptionist" to "office manager" to "company overlord."

      Thank you for your patience, and also for helping me write this. Why don't you take the afternoon off for another massage? We'll get a temp to handle the phones for you, as usual.

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      Information wants to be anthropomorphized.

    5. Re:I love my job! by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hi, this is Joe, your ex loyal customer.
      Since you lot spend so much time posting on slashdot, I found another vendor.

      Joe.

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      liqbase :: faster than paper
    6. Re:I love my job! by Mithrandir · · Score: 2, Funny

      Gah! How many times do I have to keep reminding you not to use the volcanos as your personal trash disposal? Now look what you've done! You've stirred up another Balrog. I ain't gonna deal with this one. Look what happened last time! You can sort this one out for yourself! Bah, I'm going on holiday. Say, where did those little ones go? I could do with some more weed. Helps relax you know....

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      Life is complete only for brief intervals in between toys or projects -- John Dalton
    7. Re:I love my job! by geminidomino · · Score: 5, Funny

      Joe, this is your wife.

      Since you spend all your time posting on slashdot and looking for vendors, I'm leaving you for the metermaid.

    8. Re:I love my job! by LordOfTheNoobs · · Score: 2, Funny

      And Joe, this is the metermaid. I'm skipping town with your wife. Don't forget to drop the check for last months bill in the mail. It's expensive in Hawaii this time of year.

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      They're there affecting their effect.
    9. Re:I love my job! by fm6 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Joe's wife, this Jerry Fallwell. You know you're going to hell, right?

    10. Re:I love my job! by moochfish · · Score: 4, Funny

      This is Rob, your janitor.

      Please stop filling up the garbage can with office supplies. It makes the trash heavier. I hate surfing the web in sweaty clothes.

    11. Re:I love my job! by NMerriam · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is Xenu, the intergalactic overlord. Your volcanoes are full of alien spirits that are the root cause of all pain on Earth. Just leave the office supplies at Tom Cruise's place.

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      Recursive: Adj. See Recursive.
    12. Re:I love my job! by bluephone · · Score: 5, Funny

      Jerry? This is God. I know what you do in the basement with the donkey and the swing. Stop talking for me or I'll persuade Conchita (you know, the maid you imported from San Salvador?) to drop those tapes off at CNN.

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    13. Re:I love my job! by kimvette · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hi, Tom? This is John Travolta. You can come out of the closet now. We know Katie got pregnant thanks to the local sperm bank. You can stop pretending now!

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    14. Re:I love my job! by rolfwind · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hello God?

      This is Nietzsche...

    15. Re:I love my job! by geminidomino · · Score: 2, Funny

      Mr. Christ, my name is Mr. Stevenson. I represent United Lumber, Inc. and we'd like to talk to you about an endorsement...

    16. Re:I love my job! by Gabrill · · Score: 2, Funny

      Mr. Satan, it's Roseanne Barr. According to our contract, you'll marry me when I die. I can't wait!!!!!!

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      Always going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse.
  2. I think I speak for all of us when I say by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 2, Funny

    Woo Hoo!!

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  3. On the other hand... by flogic42 · · Score: 4, Funny

    On the other hand, most companies also have policies against spending too much company time on personal phone calls. and on the other hand, oh damn i'm out of hands. :(

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  4. I can just see people trying to abuse this... by DaHat · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I don't think I should have been docked so heavily on my review this year... after all, Judge Spooner said it was ok for me to spend my time surfing and you don't want to argue with a judge do you? Best to just give me a 5/5 there... thanks."

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    Help Brendan pay off his student loans
  5. Great by Quaoar · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll bring up this case with my boss when he confronts me about the elf porn. Whew.

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    I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
    1. Re:Great by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think everyone should keep the pixyland site in their browser's history among all the pr0n links. That way if your employer brings up your surfing habits, you can claim that they're only want to fire you because you're gay.

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      Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
  6. Yay by Physician · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, now Big Brother can keep me from getting fired for checking out the sports scores while my patient dies.

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    Does God treat us as servants or friends? Check my homepage.
    1. Re:Yay by pieinthesky · · Score: 2, Funny

      My patience died years ago...

  7. hot damn! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Masturbating in the conference room can't be far off! I'll get my job back yet, you bastards!

    1. Re:hot damn! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      That wasn't the problem, you would still have your job if you had not wiped yourself off using the CEO's necktie.

    2. Re:hot damn! by Mr.+Bad+Example · · Score: 4, Funny

      > Masturbating in the conference room can't be far off!

      They already have this.

      It's called PowerPoint.

    3. Re:hot damn! by RubberDogBone · · Score: 3, Funny

      With masterbation, only you end up raw and sore after 20 minutes too much.

      With PowerPoint, everybody ends up raw and sore after 20 minutes too much.

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      Sig for hire.
  8. Today surfing by mgabrys_sf · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tomorrow - the PRON!

    "Uncomfortable working environment" my ass - HR - you're goin' DOWN. Um - to coin a phrase.

  9. The Downside... by burtdub · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unfortunately, the only people who will read this article are those who are surfing the web at work. The people too afraid to surf the web will never hear the liberating news.

  10. Re:Bookmarking this! by flosofl · · Score: 2, Funny

    These last few months I've been working on a kids to work day project using sound energy and resonance.

    You're making a mix-CD?

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    "This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence" - Vyvyan "The Young Ones"
  11. No mercy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Anyone who surfs the Web for pleasure at work deserves to be sacked, no whining about that being too harsh.

    Just wanted to say that. But I gotta run, boss is coming!

  12. Re:Time management by daeley · · Score: 2, Funny

    an anally retentive time management consultant.

    No need to be redundant. ;)

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    I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
  13. internet is evil by i_am_the_r00t · · Score: 2, Funny

    it is sapping my productivity right now.

    and now!

    still doing it...

  14. Eat it Bossman by aplusjimages · · Score: 3, Funny

    My boss just came over as I was reading this and asked what I was doing. Then I told him to shove it because he can't fire me for surfing the web. Instead he fired me for telling him to shove it. Damn it.

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    Can I bum a sig?
  15. I, for one... by Zoxed · · Score: 2, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new paper-pens-and-paperclip providing overlords.