POLL: Has anyone been reprimanded for activating the content filter at work?

[krylon]

Inspired by this thread, I've hit my company's content filter several times in one day before and have yet to be called out on it. I guess nobody is watching what I browse?

Anyone been caught before?

 

[h8red]

nobody has said anything to me yet. I often get blocked by websense several times per day

 

[phoenix79]

no option for "I'm an IT admin with rights to get around the filter"?

 

[nobody554]

Originally posted by: phoenix79
no option for "I'm an IT admin with rights to get around the filter"?

x2

 

[iamwiz82]

A few times isn't even a blip on the radar. You'd have to continuously bash against it and make it obvious you are trying to defeat it. We use ours more for total time surfing nowadays.

 

[MotionMan]

I had a case where they started tracking the sites an employee was browsing after repeated warnings.

He was frequenting amputee porn sites.

Ewwwww!!! My eyes!!! What has been seen cannot be unseen.

MotionMan

 

[Exterous]

Originally posted by: phoenix79
no option for "I'm an IT admin with rights to get around the filter"?

No one in our IT department is filtered

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: MotionMan
I had a case where they started tracking the sites an employee was browsing after repeated warnings.

He was frequenting amputee porn sites.

Ewwwww!!! My eyes!!! What has been seen cannot be unseen.

MotionMan

I'm sure you "reviewed the evidence" multiple times.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: h8red
nobody has said anything to me yet. I often get blocked by websense several times per day

This.

 

[LS21]

unfettered computer rights and WAN access = win

 

[SonnyDaze]

No. Blocked page pops up quite often though.

 

[joesmoke]

nevar, even after accidentally clicking on the goatse page on ED

 

[AstroManLuca]

It's not filtered here. I try to be careful about what I look at.

 

[krylon]

Originally posted by: nobody554

Originally posted by: phoenix79
no option for "I'm an IT admin with rights to get around the filter"?

x2

fixt

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: MotionMan
I had a case where they started tracking the sites an employee was browsing after repeated warnings.

He was frequenting amputee porn sites.

Ewwwww!!! My eyes!!! What has been seen cannot be unseen.

MotionMan

I'm sure you "reviewed the evidence" multiple times.

Fortunately, I only had to look at a couple of them one time ("One time, Johnny.").

MotionMan

 

[amdhunter]

Originally posted by: nobody554

Originally posted by: phoenix79
no option for "I'm an IT admin with rights to get around the filter"?

x2

this - and we only have one computer with a filter out of ~800. lol

 

[Kadarin]

Our office is excluded from the corporate filter. However, this doesn't mean I can just go and watch porn... Though once I did have to get permission from management to look at it as part of my job.

 

[krylon]

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Our office is excluded from the corporate filter. However, this doesn't mean I can just go and watch porn... Though once I did have to get permission from management to look at it as part of my job.

details!

 

[Platypus]

I'm always around it due to my position.

That said, because of the nature of one of my previous jobs it had to be acted on once or twice, but that was from gtalk sessions, not hitting a bad site. For most companies, the only reason this information is kept is in case they want to get rid of you for some reason in the future.

 

[dougp]

Yes, I have - but didn't get in trouble, as I explained what happened.

They did call me for downloading a file from an FTP site in France - which was actually icon files from DeviantArt ... thought that was weird.

 

[Chronoshock]

I don't think we're filtered, although I haven't pushed it. Nothing beyond ATOT and some other forums.
IT does keep an eye on heavy bandwidth usage. A few times people have been called out for torrenting stuff.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: krylon

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Our office is excluded from the corporate filter. However, this doesn't mean I can just go and watch porn... Though once I did have to get permission from management to look at it as part of my job.

details!

I'm a network engineer, and one of our customers is a well-known adult dating site. In this case, I had to look at webcam traffic to determine why the app was sending tcp resets, so I needed an account in order to observe the issue and capture network traces after reproducing the problem.

 

[GeekDrew]

Depends which office I'm working in as to whether or not my traffic is via proxy/filter, but no, I've never been reprimanded for triggering a filter. Voted "I am excluded from the filter."

 

[zinfamous]

no filter as far as I know.

 

[mugs]

I'm not sure I've ever worked at a company that had one...

Originally posted by: Platypus
I'm always around it due to my position.

That said, because of the nature of one of my previous jobs it had to be acted on once or twice, but that was from gtalk sessions, not hitting a bad site. For most companies, the only reason this information is kept is in case they want to get rid of you for some reason in the future.

Excessive chatting, or the content of the chats?