I admitedly spend to much time on AT while at work, and was wondering if the addiction caused someone to lose their job. Seems feasible to me, especially at companies who monitor web traffic. If it happens to me, you will hear about it.
Has neffing ever gotten anyone fired?
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meltdown75
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I feel pretty safe. I still get my work done efficiently. It also helps to be one of the domain admins.
Hopefully not ever. Me too for that matter. The fact that I'm bored enough to nef all the time causes me to lean leaving the job anyway though.
moshquerade
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Dear Titan's boss,
I thought you would like to know that Titan has admitted spending too much of the working day, neffing on ATOT.
I hope that this information is useful, and trust that you will take the appropriate action. I trust that I need not remind you that his constant neffing is incurring excessive bandwidth charges and reducing productivity at my own office.
I remain, Sir, your faithful servant,
Mark R
I thought you would like to know that Titan has admitted spending too much of the working day, neffing on ATOT.
I hope that this information is useful, and trust that you will take the appropriate action. I trust that I need not remind you that his constant neffing is incurring excessive bandwidth charges and reducing productivity at my own office.
I remain, Sir, your faithful servant,
Mark R
I thought someone got fired a while ago for neffing. Someone emailed a thread to his boss or something.
microAmp
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At my work a man I Know got a week off without pay.
He was told,next time it will be a Permanant vacation.
Called Abuse of Govt. time,and resources.
Then there was a man who was almost sent to Jail for downloading
"Seti@Home" distributed work program at his work.
I forget the details,but,he was a Member here at Anandtech.
He was told,next time it will be a Permanant vacation.
Called Abuse of Govt. time,and resources.
Then there was a man who was almost sent to Jail for downloading
"Seti@Home" distributed work program at his work.
I forget the details,but,he was a Member here at Anandtech.
I think someone got fire for posting sale prices prematurely at some B/M retail store? Apparently a member printed out a thread and brought it to the store he/she worked at. This was a few years back...anyone care to interject the details.
Edit: Guess that was Evadman =(
Edit: Guess that was Evadman =(
Fpund a link to one episode,there was another one,further back in time,
I believe,If I recall that person had in his sig;
I owe my life to Anandtech??{If i recall correctly}
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...hreadid=1412748&enterthread=y&arctab=y
Hunt for little green men yields only a pink slip
Friday, October 08, 2004
Ted Wendling
Plain Dealer Bureau
Columbus- In recent years, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services has fired employees for collecting illegal unemployment benefits, downloading pornography, even for having sex in their cubicles.
But on Thursday, Charles E. Smith went where no department employee has gone before - he is the first to be fired for using state property to search for alien beings.
Smith, a $60,000-a-year programmer, was dismissed after he admitted having used one of the department's computer servers since last October to process information for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project, run by the University of California at Berkeley.
In a user profile he posted on the SETI project's home page, Smith, 63, boasted that using Ohio's computer network to search for extraterrestrial life was "certainly worth putting on machines that sit here and run 24/7 anyway! It does scre w up my wor klo ad average statistics, though."
It screwed up more than Smith's statis tics, once department investigators and Di rector Tom Hayes learned that he was using state property to search for E.T.
"I understand his desire to search for intelligent life in outer space, because obviously he doesn't find it in the mirror in the morning," Hayes said. "I think that people can be comfortable that security has beamed this man out of our building."
Smith did not return a phone call seeking comment, but a disciplinary report says he told administrators that he didn't think loading the SETI software on the server was "that big a deal" because he ran the program only on weekends and on weekdays between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., when the server wasn't being used.
I believe,If I recall that person had in his sig;
I owe my life to Anandtech??{If i recall correctly}
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...hreadid=1412748&enterthread=y&arctab=y
Hunt for little green men yields only a pink slip
Friday, October 08, 2004
Ted Wendling
Plain Dealer Bureau
Columbus- In recent years, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services has fired employees for collecting illegal unemployment benefits, downloading pornography, even for having sex in their cubicles.
But on Thursday, Charles E. Smith went where no department employee has gone before - he is the first to be fired for using state property to search for alien beings.
Smith, a $60,000-a-year programmer, was dismissed after he admitted having used one of the department's computer servers since last October to process information for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project, run by the University of California at Berkeley.
In a user profile he posted on the SETI project's home page, Smith, 63, boasted that using Ohio's computer network to search for extraterrestrial life was "certainly worth putting on machines that sit here and run 24/7 anyway! It does scre w up my wor klo ad average statistics, though."
It screwed up more than Smith's statis tics, once department investigators and Di rector Tom Hayes learned that he was using state property to search for E.T.
"I understand his desire to search for intelligent life in outer space, because obviously he doesn't find it in the mirror in the morning," Hayes said. "I think that people can be comfortable that security has beamed this man out of our building."
Smith did not return a phone call seeking comment, but a disciplinary report says he told administrators that he didn't think loading the SETI software on the server was "that big a deal" because he ran the program only on weekends and on weekdays between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., when the server wasn't being used.
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