Posting whilst at work

Bagman
Bagman Posts: 311
edited November 2008 in Commuting chat
Do most contributors post whilst they are working or do you wait until breaks? I'm interested as to how your employers view internet use whilst at work. Mine take a dim view.

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  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    I found out today I can post here on my mobile phone :lol:

    Been reading here for ages through my phone, but didn't realise I could post too.

    As for internet use tho, my place takess a dim view. Someone's just "jumped before they were pushed" when it came to light he'd clocked up the most internet hours in the organisation - 21 hours in one month.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Work was getting in the way of my posting :shock:
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • Coriander
    Coriander Posts: 1,326
    iain_j wrote:
    I found out today I can post here on my mobile phone :lol:

    Been reading here for ages through my phone, but didn't realise I could post too.

    As for internet use tho, my place takess a dim view. Someone's just "jumped before they were pushed" when it came to light he'd clocked up the most internet hours in the organisation - 21 hours in one month.

    21 hours in one month??? :shock:

    Is that all? I do 21 hours in about 3 days!!
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Come on get with the program people, rss reader is all you need, I use Newsfire on my mac and thunderbird on other machines, set-up to grab all posts and key word searches.

    Amateurs honestly :P
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    Coriander wrote:
    iain_j wrote:
    I found out today I can post here on my mobile phone :lol:

    Been reading here for ages through my phone, but didn't realise I could post too.

    As for internet use tho, my place takess a dim view. Someone's just "jumped before they were pushed" when it came to light he'd clocked up the most internet hours in the organisation - 21 hours in one month.

    21 hours in one month??? :shock:

    Is that all? I do 21 hours in about 3 days!!

    Not bad is it, that's in an organisation of several thousand!

    I keep my internet use down to a few minutes a day, BBC news or the weather forecast, they're not going to be bothered about that. But forums, facebook, etc. are a big no-no.
  • Bagman
    Bagman Posts: 311
    itboffin wrote:
    Come on get with the program people, rss reader is all you need, I use Newsfire on my mac and thunderbird on other machines, set-up to grab all posts and key word searches.

    Amateurs honestly :P

    Sorry - haven't got a clue what you are on about :?
  • Nick6891
    Nick6891 Posts: 274
    i mainly post at work and collage lol but only when i am not busy so if the boss comes they cant complain :lol:
  • marchant
    marchant Posts: 362
    I limit myself to a few visits to news sites and the like, although my colleagues seem to spend so much time on MySpace, Friendster etc that I'm amazed any work gets done. If I visit here, I don't log in and use the generic password that IT, in their infinite wisdom, have left active.
  • marchant
    marchant Posts: 362
    I limit myself to a few visits to news sites and the like, although my colleagues seem to spend so much time on MySpace, Friendster etc that I'm amazed any work gets done. If I visit here, I don't log in and use the generic password that IT, in their infinite wisdom, have left active.
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    When I worked full time last year I seemed to spend most of my day on the internet. TBH I probably spent too much time, and is probably a reason why I've got such a post count.

    I think it might have been an issue if I hadn't have got my work done. I did a lot of experimental work, which often meant sitting there watching temp/pressure gauges in the lab, I nearly always had a laptop with me, I watched a lot of races live streamed - Paris-Nice, Ronde, Ghent-Wevelgem, most stages of the Giro, or played music. My boss knew what I was doing, and didn't have a problem as long as I got everything done on time.

    The place was shutting down anyway, and a lot of staff seemed to spend a lot of time drinking coffee in the "Amenity Area", I think my team was the only group to actually continuely generate work until the shutdown.

    Now I'm back at Uni, I surf too much and post too much with my iPhone in lectures :oops:
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    I never post while at work.
  • unclemalc
    unclemalc Posts: 563
    redddraggon wrote:
    Now I'm back at Uni, I surf too much and post too much with my iPhone in lectures :oops:

    redd - I like students like you - they amuse themselves and keep quiet while those who want to engage in what I'm on about do so....
    :wink:

    As I more or less please myself how I do my job, fitting in a bit of Forum/Internet activity is not a problem. If I visit a colleague, they are invariably on the 'net, doing personal stuff. The only ones who aren't are the secretaries, but I am sure they fit it in somehow.
    As long as the job gets done, and done well etc etc...
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    unclemalc wrote:
    redddraggon wrote:
    Now I'm back at Uni, I surf too much and post too much with my iPhone in lectures :oops:

    redd - I like students like you - they amuse themselves and keep quiet while those who want to engage in what I'm on about do so....
    :wink:

    Weirdly I still seem to answer more questions than everyone else....Apart from one Chinese dude who I can't understand no matter how hard I try (it took me three months to work out what he meant by "delta etch" - ΔH)

    As long as it's not crystallography I can normally work out the answer to any question.
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  • farrell
    farrell Posts: 1,323
    You are paid to do a job not surf the net...:)...lunch breaks, maybe....

    No wonder the economy is down the poop hole..;)...get back to work.
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  • hisoka
    hisoka Posts: 541
    I might post now and then at work, but I work in IS and it is part of the system to make sure that all connections work etc.
    Well that is part of what I do, the rest is very very very dull usually.
    "This area left purposefully blank"
    Sign hung on my head everyday till noon.

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  • woodyonthebeach
    woodyonthebeach Posts: 583
    As long as my work gets done on time and to the expected quality my boss doesn't give a rats arse at the end of the day.

    He knows that I like riding and will ride in most mornings, I say most mornings he has been known to wake me up with my head on my desk/keyboard after pulling an all nighter.

    He even lets me get out of the office early if there is no more work at that time. My commute goes from 6 miles to 25 then. Great thats all I can say.

    As long as you play fair I cant see it a problem doing what you are doing whilst at the office place of work .
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  • unclemalc
    unclemalc Posts: 563
    redddraggon wrote:
    unclemalc wrote:
    redddraggon wrote:
    Now I'm back at Uni, I surf too much and post too much with my iPhone in lectures :oops:

    redd - I like students like you - they amuse themselves and keep quiet while those who want to engage in what I'm on about do so....
    :wink:

    Weirdly I still seem to answer more questions than everyone else....Apart from one Chinese dude who I can't understand no matter how hard I try (it took me three months to work out what he meant by "delta etch" - ΔH)

    As long as it's not crystallography I can normally work out the answer to any question.

    Respect duly given.
    Just don't let me catch you.... :wink:
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    Singlespeeds in town rule.
  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    I think my employer has a "fair use" policy - not a problem as along as I am doing my workload.
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Mine too - I had to be a little, um, creative to get them to unblock this, but their policy is as long as I do what I should be doing it's all OK.
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  • squired
    squired Posts: 1,153
    I just had my performance appraisal and nothing was said about my use of the internet, so I'm carrying on as usual. Having said that, redundancies are being announced in December, so if it comes up then it will be too late anyway!

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