Web Surfing on the Job, are ya??

[katyon6th]

They're all watching us. Damnit.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Careers/story?id=1519053

[Kori Ellis]

Katy, did you make a thread about Howl at the Moon and I missed it?

If you didn't, then make one with the title "GTG - Friday 2/3/06 - Howl At the Moon" with all the details inside and I'll pin it to the top.

[midgetonadonkey]

Out of my 8 hours at work I'm web surfing about 6. On Fridays and Saturdays it's at about 7 1/2 hours.

[hussker]

Beats Job Surfing on the Web!!!!!

[Brutalis]

they're just trying to scare you. of course americans eat this shit up.

[katyon6th]

Yes, I'm scared. Yet here I am on spurstalk whilst at work.

[Extra Stout]

Typically, an immediate supervisor isn't going to have time to peruse each employee's internet usage. That's not value-added work.

But the servers are keeping a log of internet activity for each employee. So, if there's a problem with performance or with discipline, management can review that activity and determine whether it is contributing to the performance problems.

The blocking software is automated. Companies can subscribe to blocking services that catalog websites in certain categories which are not job-related. The software is intelligent, and can track non-blocked sites that are seeing heavy traffic, which can be added to the blocked list if deemed inappropriate. The software can determine if you are trying to access an excessive number of blocked sites, and fire off an e-mail to your supervisor, or disable internet privileges temporarily or permanently.

So maybe there's not a person tracking the sites you visit, but it is being tracked, and if somebody decides they want to see it... it's all there. And if you go overboard, there will be intervention of some kind.

[missmyzte]

I had a problem with some of the girls in my department surfing the web while on the clock. I went on their computers and checked their internet history and also the cookies to see what sites they'd been on. Helped in some 'performance counseling'. We also had a girl once have an IM conversation with a co-worker (the co-worker was off the clock) for two hours when she was working a late shift once. Corporate actually caught that one and brought it to our attention.

[sa_butta]

I spend most of my workday web surfing and they are well aware of what we do. They just dont want to see any porn or offending material.

[Old School Chic]

I spend most of my workday web surfing and they are well aware of what we do. They just dont want to see any porn or offending material.

Ditto

[Guru of Nothing]

I spend most of my workday web surfing and they are well aware of what we do. They just dont want to see any porn or offending material.

Same here. I work two cubes over from the guy who monitors the traffic in and out of the office. He used to call me over once in a while when certain phrases were trapped by my internet usage. It seemed to happen a lot when I would google lyrics, but it does seem google has cleaned up the search results.

[N.Y. Johnny]

when I worked at Motorola in Austin a while back I used to surf the web and bet on Horse and Dog Races all the time, I would also sit there and post on forums :spin