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RedBedroom …is a Chamber DEITY.
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| Subject: If you use a work computer, are you paranoid about logging into personal sites? Thu Feb 17, 2011 3:41 pm | |
| Maybe it is easy for me to say, since my work computer is my own, but I don't think I would ever be able to visit personal sites like this and FB during work hours. I would be too worried about them sneaking in and seeing what I am doing. Even if I only did so during lunch, off the clock.
I have a couple friends who do personal emails through their work email and I don't understand that. I would really fear those being read.
So do you have concern for logging in during work hours, or doesn't it phase you? | |
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Nhaiyel …is a Power Member.
Join date : 2010-02-02 Location : Jersey (West Orange) Posts : 3137 Rep : 123
| Subject: Re: If you use a work computer, are you paranoid about logging into personal sites? Thu Feb 17, 2011 3:53 pm | |
| Not really. I'm at work right now. Some of the computers here do not allow access to any commercial website, they're blocked; but others do. Of course they discourage us from going to any non-work related site and half heartedly threaten that our computers are being "monitored," but I doubt that's true (and if it is, then I doubt that they care that much) because everyone and their brother pulls up commercial sites at their cubical. Naturally their biggest issue is porn. | |
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Shale ...is a Chamber Royal.
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| Subject: Re: If you use a work computer, are you paranoid about logging into personal sites? Thu Feb 17, 2011 3:57 pm | |
| Maybe you read my post on another thread about my boss recently blocking social network sites like facebook & MySpace and porn sites like Literotica and Foot Buddies on our work computers. They found about 4 employees on facebook one day so they blocked them.
I am at lunch now and logged on here, which hasn't yet been blocked. I am very out at work - the admin knows I am a nudist, and make love to young men. I do know that they can spy on me and have every right to do so while I am on their computer at work. But they can search my real name and see evidence of all my unconventionality without checking the servers here at work.
I do not identify my company or make disparaging remarks about it on facebook, because that is a fireable offense. (It actually happened to a co-worker who is now one of m facebook friends). So, unless it can result in my losing my job I don't care what the admin here sees me putting on this site & Hip Forums - about the only two I continue to have access to from work. | |
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RedBedroom …is a Chamber DEITY.
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| Subject: Re: If you use a work computer, are you paranoid about logging into personal sites? Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:08 pm | |
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- Maybe you read my post on another thread about my boss recently blocking social network sites like facebook & MySpace and porn sites like Literotica and Foot Buddies on our work computers.
Yeah, Shale, your post is what reminded me of this topic. I have asked the same question before on another forum and was very surprised by the general consensus in that people think that their bosses know the time they spend on personal sites online, but believe the bosses don't really care. I would think that things like FB eat a ton of man hours, yet so many seem to check FB at work non stop. | |
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(Oh!) Rob Petrie …is a Power Member.
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| Subject: Re: If you use a work computer, are you paranoid about logging into personal sites? Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:53 pm | |
| My boss openly watches porn all day and sometimes I'm in charge of finding all the crap he's downloaded and telling him to delete it. So, yeah, I'm not worried about it. But I will say that the first week on my school's internet in Germany, I was too paranoid about porn. | |
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Kral …is a Power Member.
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| Subject: Re: If you use a work computer, are you paranoid about logging into personal sites? Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:00 pm | |
| So long as it isn't porn and we aren't letting it distract from our work, they don't too much care about us going to websites that aren't work related. | |
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Chris Chamber Admin.
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| Subject: Re: If you use a work computer, are you paranoid about logging into personal sites? Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:18 pm | |
| It's not an issue at my job; I'm pretty much free to go to any site I wish. I do, though, tend to shy away from any that are inappropriate. | |
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Alan Smithee ...is a 20G Chamber DIETY.
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| Subject: Re: If you use a work computer, are you paranoid about logging into personal sites? Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:29 pm | |
| The most personal sites I visit on my breaks are TCC & IMDb. | |
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Nystyle709 ...is a 20G Chamber DIETY.
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| Subject: Re: If you use a work computer, are you paranoid about logging into personal sites? Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:15 pm | |
| I would go online at work sometimes, but the damn computer on my job is so damn slow that I don't even bother. | |
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GrayWolf …is Authorized.
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| Subject: Re: If you use a work computer, are you paranoid about logging into personal sites? Fri Feb 18, 2011 1:02 pm | |
| The computers are my job are slow and don't give us access to outside commercial websites. | |
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Shale ...is a Chamber Royal.
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