It was amazing how Internet “responsible” my husband’s employees became as soon as he told them “Fuck it, anything goes.” The antics lasted about a day, then they got bored - then everyone just got back to work.
Treat people like adults and they tend to act like adults.
@MrsPavlov This was my experience too. I transitioned from a draconian environment to a very lax one. I used to try to get away with as much as I possibly could. Now I just browse the internet on breaks and get way more work done.
@MrsPavlov huh, and my job has a very strict set of official rules, but no system to monitor or enforce them, so people are constantly going wild. Seriously, it is a little disturbing to see what people will do. And then everyone acts surprised when we get hit by viruses.
“Facebook and Twitter are blocked. Don’t look up porn. If you get a virus, tell us where - don’t worry, you won’t be in trouble unless it was illegal.”
Viewing the internet is totally open, however there is very little that we can download without asking IT for help. That sucks if you want to use a different browser or try free trials of things. I ran into this last week when I wanted to try out PhotoShop.
MNF-I, maybe 2007, Camp Liberty: Battle Command Update comes to a screeching halt when the SIPRnet locks up. Turns out it was the night of some Victoria Secret web special, and every troop in the vicinity was logged on. (Shouldn’t have effected SIPR, but if something can go wrong, it will, so we’ll blame the most obvious of the usual suspects.)
My company tracks overall usage per person with time as the metric. If you’re in the top X% of users, your history gets reviewed. If there’s anything non-work-related during work hours, you’re gonna get in trouble.
My job lays down a hard line on paper, but doesn’t really do well with cyber enforcement. The real rule is to minimize the window if the tough managers are walking through.
Ironically, the last time they tried a site blocker, the only site anyone had trouble reaching was the one for our sister company in Europe. Took them a couple months of trying to find a fix before deciding it wasn’t worth the trouble.
The computers are locked down so tight, we can’t even go to the company’s own website (retail), but we have iPads that aren’t restricted, at all.
Makes no sense to me.
@TheCO2 are the iPads tied into the same network? (Asking on a more complicated level than even just using the same wireless access points, I.E. do they have access to the servers for example?) As devices go they’re fairly low risk as entry points for viruses to attack networks so that might be a reason even if they’re in the same network.
They don’t like streaming media, so Pandora is out, but the use YouTube for some of their product videos, so that’s open. :-\ No personal electronics at all. No flash drives, ipods, phones, radios… I hope I never need a pacemaker.
My workplace is less concerned about content, and more concerned about security. Sites with malicious content are blocked, but time-wasters like Youtube and Pandora are allowed.
It was amazing how Internet “responsible” my husband’s employees became as soon as he told them “Fuck it, anything goes.” The antics lasted about a day, then they got bored - then everyone just got back to work.
Treat people like adults and they tend to act like adults.
@MrsPavlov This was my experience too. I transitioned from a draconian environment to a very lax one. I used to try to get away with as much as I possibly could. Now I just browse the internet on breaks and get way more work done.
@MrsPavlov huh, and my job has a very strict set of official rules, but no system to monitor or enforce them, so people are constantly going wild. Seriously, it is a little disturbing to see what people will do. And then everyone acts surprised when we get hit by viruses.
What’s a workplace?
Ha ha ha har har hardee-har ha ha!!
“Facebook and Twitter are blocked. Don’t look up porn. If you get a virus, tell us where - don’t worry, you won’t be in trouble unless it was illegal.”
My company’s pretty reasonable.
@dannybeans have you tried a vpn like tunnelbear?
@communist I’m sure I could, but I honestly don’t object to the policy. I can lose a lot of time on Facebook. Better that it’s not an option.
im in charge of it!! hahahahahahahahahahahaha
@clonetek Same here. Some days it’s good to be the IT guy.
Viewing the internet is totally open, however there is very little that we can download without asking IT for help. That sucks if you want to use a different browser or try free trials of things. I ran into this last week when I wanted to try out PhotoShop.
MNF-I, maybe 2007, Camp Liberty: Battle Command Update comes to a screeching halt when the SIPRnet locks up. Turns out it was the night of some Victoria Secret web special, and every troop in the vicinity was logged on. (Shouldn’t have effected SIPR, but if something can go wrong, it will, so we’ll blame the most obvious of the usual suspects.)
Even websites that I try to reach for work related purposes, are blocked sometimes.
The only thing I’ll use the computer for, that’s not work related, is to order my lunch.
I’ll just use my phone for the internet. Lot less questions that way.
My company tracks overall usage per person with time as the metric. If you’re in the top X% of users, your history gets reviewed. If there’s anything non-work-related during work hours, you’re gonna get in trouble.
My job lays down a hard line on paper, but doesn’t really do well with cyber enforcement. The real rule is to minimize the window if the tough managers are walking through.
Ironically, the last time they tried a site blocker, the only site anyone had trouble reaching was the one for our sister company in Europe. Took them a couple months of trying to find a fix before deciding it wasn’t worth the trouble.
The computers are locked down so tight, we can’t even go to the company’s own website (retail), but we have iPads that aren’t restricted, at all.
Makes no sense to me.
@TheCO2 are the iPads tied into the same network? (Asking on a more complicated level than even just using the same wireless access points, I.E. do they have access to the servers for example?) As devices go they’re fairly low risk as entry points for viruses to attack networks so that might be a reason even if they’re in the same network.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@jbartus For some reason, I don’t think it’s the same network, but I don’t know.
They don’t like streaming media, so Pandora is out, but the use YouTube for some of their product videos, so that’s open. :-\ No personal electronics at all. No flash drives, ipods, phones, radios… I hope I never need a pacemaker.
@PocketBrain
YouTube videos aren’t streamed, though. They are downloaded -that’s what the light gray portion of the playback line indicates.
It’s semi regulated, I have to get all my porn through twitter while at work.
The only thing I’ve found to be blocked is wine.woot. Not even all of woot - just wine.woot.
@darksaber99999 guess that would fall under alcohol
My workplace is less concerned about content, and more concerned about security. Sites with malicious content are blocked, but time-wasters like Youtube and Pandora are allowed.
Well there’s no spying and as long as you don’t get caught ANYTHING goes.
I’m the IT guy in an office of four people. So, yeah.
████ ███████ ███ ████ ███████ █████████ ██ ███████ ███████
The policy is:
Don’t make more work for me, and don’t fuck it up for everyone else.
Jokingly picked “I don’t have a workplace” this morning, and then…
/giphy it burns
