Does your work Block or Filter Scubaboard?

[El Orans]

Moved to Site Support.

 

[mike_s]

Every once in a while, a surprise audit is done and you get fussed at for looking at non-work sites with termination threatened.

Then they would have to include management in that rule.

Where I used to work about 10-13 years ago, if it wasn't for internet porn, my manager wouldn't have anything to charge to 8 hours a day. I mean that's all he did.

I ran the firewall and saw the hundreds (if not thousands) of porn hits he did each day.

10+ years ago it wasn't really against most company policies yet to do such at work as the internet was still 'new' to corporations.

Besides, if I report him, I had to go to upper management and then deal with him being my boss afterwards. If he was surfing porn 8 hours a day, he was leaving us along and not bothering us. It worked for us.

I found SSH port tunneling and an outside proxy server to take care of that problem nicely.

I'm amazed at how many firewalls are so inadequately protected. We used to SSH through our firewall all the time at another job (not same job as above). It's so easy to set up a router right to packet filter those ports.


Where I work now, for a very large corporation, loading any software w/o approval or using any software to circumvent security practices is a major violation of corporate policy. Apparantly folks didn't take this to heart of downloading and installing unapproved or unlicensed software until they made an "example" out of somebody by firing him for it. Now they don't seem to have that problem as no one wants to be the next "example".

 

[ShakaZulu]

The main reason why companies install filters is to help production. The more people are surfing the internet at work the less work they are getting done. After all, you get paid to do a job. My boss has a good way of putting it. His explanation is "We (The company) purchases a block of time from you (the employee) and we want good results of the block of time that we purchase."

What your company doesn't realize is that a happy employee is a productive employee....in a healthy work environment, people want to finish their work in a timely manner and with the best quality they can......such a shame.

70% of your employees are less motivated today than they used to be.

80% of your employees could perform significantly better if they wanted to.

50% of your employees only put enough effort into their work to keep their job.

Wonder why.......

 

[RedWingDiver]

What your company doesn't realize is that a happy employee is a productive employee....in a healthy work environment, people want to finish their work in a timely manner and with the best quality they can......such a shame.

70% of your employees are less motivated today than they used to be.

80% of your employees could perform significantly better if they wanted to.

50% of your employees only put enough effort into their work to keep their job.

Wonder why.......

Hear hear!!!

I do a lot of data analyzing and processing in my job. A good chunk of my day is running programs and scripts on data to get them to a point where I can look at it. That means I actually have a lot of time where I'm waiting around, even after I've done the things that I don't need a computer to do. Sadly for me, that means I sometimes looks like I'm just playing around when in reality I'm waiting for data to be finished crunching.

 

[drbill]

What your company doesn't realize is that a happy employee is a productive employee....in a healthy work environment, people want to finish their work in a timely manner and with the best quality they can......such a shame.

I spent a long 13 months working in the defense industry in the late 70's. I was very efficient in my work, and often got my entire week's work list completed by Tues Noon. My boss was stupified. When I asked if he had anything else to do, he usually said no. When I asked if I could go outside the plant to do library research, he said it was against company policy.

When I asked him what I should do for the next 3 1/2 days, he said "Just look busy." If the Internet had been accessible to me back then, and the Web itself existed, I could have been paid to have a field day on it!

Being in the defense industry, our revenues were largely based on "cost plus" government contracts. Even when I tried to save millions in energy costs, upper management said no. I gave up on the corporate private sector after that experience.

 

[Divin'Papaw]

I spent a long 13 months working in the defense industry in the late 70's. I was very efficient in my work, and often got my entire week's work list completed by Tues Noon. My boss was stupified. When I asked if he had anything else to do, he usually said no. When I asked if I could go outside the plant to do library research, he said it was against company policy.

When I asked him what I should do for the next 3 1/2 days, he said "Just look busy." If the Internet had been accessible to me back then, and the Web itself existed, I could have been paid to have a field day on it!

Being in the defense industry, our revenues were largely based on "cost plus" government contracts. Even when I tried to save millions in energy costs, upper management said no. I gave up on the corporate private sector after that experience.

Unfortunately, the corporate environment has a tendency to so focus on productivity and end results that it quite literally drains the life and passion right out of you. Before you know it you become an automaton that blindly goes about meeting the minimum standards without striving for more because (1) it's never appreciated and (2) it then becomes expected and before you know it (3) you end up punished for not exceeding your previous over-and-above effort. Of course, I'm certainly not speaking from experience. I give my employer my undying loyalty and 110% each and every moment I'm at work.

 

[ShakaZulu]

Unfortunately, the corporate environment has a tendency to so focus on productivity and end results that it quite literally drains the life and passion right out of you. Before you know it you become an automaton that blindly goes about meeting the minimum standards without striving for more because (1) it's never appreciated and (2) it then becomes expected and before you know it (3) you end up punished for not exceeding your previous over-and-above effort. Of course, I'm certainly not speaking from experience. I give my employer my undying loyalty and 110% each and every moment I'm at work.

Agree.....the monkeys in charge was trained by his superior, and the cycle continuous. At least some of us believe in further education, learning the error of our ways. The accounting system haven't changed for the last 40 years, some new concepts are slowly finding their way into organizations that would eliminate this problem.

e.g. The most valuable asset to an organization is it's people, yet according to accounting they are an expense?

 

[eckybay]

Doesn't currently block it, but I'm thinking of asking them to SO I CAN GET SOME WORK DONE!

lol . . .been there, thought that.

 

[undefined]

Block Scubaboard? Hmm...

I own a majority stake in the corporation I work for. Block Scubaboard? Nope. Looks like my web filter lets it right through (and lets the employees get to it too). In fact, I'm taking my top networking guy diving this weekend. Work + Scuba =

 

[The Chairman]

Let the Board through unfettered! It's the American way!