Do you surf the web @ work?

[ruffilb]

I nef during classes.

 

[Shaotai]

I'm a neffer...
But I also did study during off busy times and even completed my mcse all strictly through self-study!
You choose what to do with your time.
But now, I just nef...

 

[evilsaint]

Originally posted by: InlineFour
OP, just curious, what kind of degree do you have from college?

None to speak of yet, though i'll be going for a B.S. (probably in Game Design, not IT) once I finish my certifications (MCSE 2003/Security+) and pay off my credit card bills. I hate to brag, but I do happen to have a rather cushy job, pay and benefit-wise, for a 22 year-old kid, though this one is a bit of a fluke in terms of salary, mainly only due to the Global 25 company that I work for and the fact that i'm on second shift.

BTW, just curious, why do you ask? 🙂

 

[cjmtfd102401]

Not really, if I do on my computer it will crash 🙁 but sometimes the bosses wife and I will surf on her computer. I am usually to busy though

 

[evilsaint]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: evilsaint

Originally posted by: Nik
I usually don't have time to even take a break.

That must be tough... stuck at work all day not being able to get away from ATOT... 😉

ha 😛

Nah, I like it. I'm always busy and always challenged. I got a promotion today, too. 😀 I'll be running the whole of production by July.

Grats on the promotion 🙂 I wish I could have the pay/bene's that I have now and be busy/challenged all the time like that, but sometimes you just have to settle for the vanity and superficiality and deal with it 😉

 

[PinmasterJay]

Originally posted by: TXHokie
My job requires that I surf for solutions on the internet.

ditto, and i'm at work right now

 

[Eos]

Just leaving work. I work the close shift at my little ISP tech support job.

I surf, but keep it mostly work related. AT is definitely work related.

 

[altonb1]

Originally posted by: her209
What software do you use for Help Desk?

The company I work for uses Magic Service desk. (Meh!)

We had a plan to move to another software package...perhaps Remedy (FTW!) but that got shelved for legitimate business reasons. The replacement package will probably be reviewed in 2007....

 

[pulse8]

Yes. It's part of my job.

 

[thirdlegstump]

Originally posted by: evilsaint

Originally posted by: TXHokie
My job requires that I surf for solutions on the internet.

That sounds like a lot of fun 😀

I'd love to be an admin for a smaller company with really current servers/software/OS's and do something like that. Configure/fix/install what I can, and then post here and Google for the stuff I can't figure out 🙂

That sounds exactly like what I do.

 

[kevnich2]

Originally posted by: evilsaint

Originally posted by: TXHokie
My job requires that I surf for solutions on the internet.

That sounds like a lot of fun 😀

I'd love to be an admin for a smaller company with really current servers/software/OS's and do something like that. Configure/fix/install what I can, and then post here and Google for the stuff I can't figure out 🙂

her209, we use Clarify, which runs off an Oracle database of some sort. We're moving to a web-based solution by Mercury though; it runs more quickly, but i'm not sure I like how everything is laid out inside of it.

Been almost exclusively doing server and network support here though, nothing at all like the desktop/helpdesk stuff that i've been doing before this for four years. Sitting in server rooms replacing stuff and toying around is one thing; responding to the same alerts day in and day out with the only variety being what you type into the individual tickets and what you have for dinner (1-11PM, four days a week) is quite a culture shock. Hence, the surplus web surfing when i'm not busy, which is, like, %75 of the time :frown:

That is exactly what I do, admin for a smaller company. But since my servers take care of themselves 90% of the time, I'm usually involved in a dozen other projects around my workplace but most, if not all of them requires me to do quite a bit of research (google is my friend) on the internet. But I love my job, server and network administration for my company is a pretty good job. But when problems do occur, I'm the one that has to fix them before my boss realizes there's a problem

 

[Uclagamer_99]

Man I really hated Remedy when we used to use it for our ticketing system 🙂

 

[jdobratz]

All day long.

 

[evilsaint]

Originally posted by: HenHowC
Man I really hated Remedy when we used to use it for our ticketing system 🙂

Remedy OOTB kinda sucks, but if you do some custom modifications to it to take out the stuff you don't use, add the stuff that's not there that you need, and speed it up a bit, then it rocks anything else out there that i've used.

AltonB1, I feel your pain. Magic is... blech...

 

[Solema]

I admin for a few clients, and work from home full-time. I love it. I can pretty much do whatever I want, when I want, as long as what needs to be done gets done.

One of my clients is the "holy grail" of clients. They trust my judgement, spend when I need them to spend, and implent policies I advise them on. They're running a 2003 AD domain with Exchange 2003 and they span multiple sites across the US, so I have my hands full and learn new stuff every day.

 

[evilsaint]

Originally posted by: Solema
I admin for a few clients, and work from home full-time. I love it. I can pretty much do whatever I want, when I want, as long as what needs to be done gets done.

One of my clients is the "holy grail" of clients. They trust my judgement, spend when I need them to spend, and implent policies I advise them on. They're running a 2003 AD domain with Exchange 2003 and they span multiple sites across the US, so I have my hands full and learn new stuff every day.

You, my friend, are the type of IT professional I aspire to be 😀

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: TXHokie
My job requires that I surf for solutions on the internet.

Yeah, I nef a lot at work too 😛

 

[ProfessorFate]

Surf constantly thank you very much. :beer:

 

[imported_Trippin315]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: TXHokie
My job requires that I surf for solutions on the internet.

Yeah, I nef a lot at work too 😛

That is all I have been doing lately, it has been that slow. This and google video and youtube.

 

[whoiswes]

sure, i'll surf when i have nothing to do, but most of the time, i have things that i can be researching or testing or playing with - our company has basically an unlimited IT budget - the owner is very tech savvy and wants to have the biggest and best of everything, as well as stay on the leading edge of technology.

like you, i enjoy my job, and have gained enough seniority/prestige in my year of service that i have free time to work on 'fun' projects (mainly involving VOIP, as i'm the asterisk admin/project manager), but if nothing is going on or i need a break, i surf the web.

when i first started, it was 12 hours a day, straight - i ate at my desk and didn't have time for much else. since then, things have slowed considerably and one of the benefits is free time to jack around...hell, just the other day, our CIO and network engineer put axle grease on the arms of our helpdesk manager's chair - he sat down, leaned back, and stuck his hands in two gobs of black oily grease...i figure if that's ok, a bit of surfing isn't going to kill anyone.

besides, what are they going to do, fire me???

/famous last words

 

[evilsaint]

Bored at work bump. Nef power!