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grr...
So, Wednesday's staff meeting revealed the following bits of information.
1) Someone was downloading porn on the work computer. Ick. What a person does on his/her personal time is one thing, this is work for goodness' sake. While I like my job, most of my co-workers have the worst work-ethic I've ever seen. Showing up late, committing major med-errors, eating the clients' food. All sorts of crap. But I digress. Next point.
2) As a result, personal internet use suring leisure time has been suspended for one month.
So, most of my LJ time is down the drain for the next month. I'll still be checking it, but maybe once a day, if that much.
Feh.
Therefore, if anything really important comes up, and you feel I need to know immediately, call my cellphone.
1) Someone was downloading porn on the work computer. Ick. What a person does on his/her personal time is one thing, this is work for goodness' sake. While I like my job, most of my co-workers have the worst work-ethic I've ever seen. Showing up late, committing major med-errors, eating the clients' food. All sorts of crap. But I digress. Next point.
2) As a result, personal internet use suring leisure time has been suspended for one month.
So, most of my LJ time is down the drain for the next month. I'll still be checking it, but maybe once a day, if that much.
Feh.
Therefore, if anything really important comes up, and you feel I need to know immediately, call my cellphone.
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i don't know how steamed up your management is about this, but once they've calmed down and have backed off a bit from the inevitable jackbooted-thug reaction, you might want to point them at this product.
my company recommends a product called SurfControl for web filtering for networks; the impression i get is that there's only the one computer at your job, so SurfControl would be way overkill (in terms of expense and complexity). however, the same people who make SurfControl also make CyberPatrol, the above-linked product, which is oriented towards home and individual users. it's much simpler, and it's much cheaper.
CyberPatrol comes with a fairly large list of known "adult" or "sensitive" sites, plus it can be configured to block other sites on an individual basis. plus, it keeps track of web usage, and it can also do time tracking (limiting web usage to certain hours of the day, enforcing a limit on total number of hours of usage per day).
the product is pretty easy to set up, even for the relatively non-technical (i mean, its target market are non-technical parents who are worried about what their tech-savvy kids are doing online). if you think it's a good idea, i'd be willing to write up a little sales pitch to send to your management, and/or provide some help with installing and configuring it.
wow. i can't believe i just recommended that somebody buy censorware. personally, i happen to be violently opposed to this sort of software on philosophical and technical grounds (an explanation of some of my objections can be found here), but i also know that managers and administrators seem to love this stuff, and i think that installing something like this would be a better solution than a blanket restriction (and besides, how are they going to enforce it? what if this doesn't deter the offender, and he/she starts up again after a month?)
yikes. my condolences, ari. give me a call if you wanna chat about this.
-steve
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