so my company has this policy...

[Pepsei]

we can surf anywhere not blocked, no webmail, no aim, no atot, but i can bypass all that with a dialup connection...

 

[chuckywang]

Damn...that sucks.

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: tami
i'm not asking for reasons to circumvent the policy. i intend to work. but it was more for the reason to ask if it's totally unheard of and to explain my recent absence. 😛

Sounds like standard policy to me, too. We block what we can and have policies pretty much just like your, except we have no IM at all (I've thought about setting up an internal messaging server though).

I only post on ATF because it's "work related" 😉 Well, most times it is 🙂

 

[iamwiz82]

Officially that is our policy but we aren't too tough when it comes to abuse. No IMs nor streaming media, though.

Someone had 22 hours of surfing last week, all we did was block the one site that was being visited.

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Officially that is our policy but we aren't too tough when it comes to abuse. No IMs nor streaming media, though.

Someone had 22 hours of surfing last week, all we did was block the one site that was being visited.

22 hours from the same person? That is one way to spend a 40 hr work week.

 

[Tobolo]

Check the new supreme court ruling in this area, nay have some application to your matter.

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Officially that is our policy but we aren't too tough when it comes to abuse. No IMs nor streaming media, though.

Someone had 22 hours of surfing last week, all we did was block the one site that was being visited.

ha, yeah we one instance show up of a user surfing for like 6 hours in one day on a not-even-remotely-work-related site. We just blocked that site.

 

[pontifex]

my last job was no internet except for work related stuff. no im or anything like that.

 

[piasabird]

We hardly ever do any monitoring since I work at a College. It may get to that at some point. Dont even have a password on my computer. We use passwords for Work related systems, but not for PC's. Nothing is really considered private when you work for someone else.

 

[trmiv]

Man, it would be tough, tough for me if my work had that policy. I do desktop support, but if there are no tickets in my queue, or I'm waiting for calls back from users, there is nothing to do. So I surf the web.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Mike

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Officially that is our policy but we aren't too tough when it comes to abuse. No IMs nor streaming media, though.

Someone had 22 hours of surfing last week, all we did was block the one site that was being visited.

22 hours from the same person? That is one way to spend a 40 hr work week.

I'm sure a few of those hours are from having the website up in the background while he worked on something else, but that's still a LOT.