Anyone ever have any grief for surfing the web when working?

[Spacecadet]

As a permie I spend probably 80% of my time on the internet

Permie slacker, if you were any good at your job you could get that up to 95% or even more!

[doodab]

I spend about 110% of my time on CUK. I am actually doing overtime to keep up.

[Scotgal]

Permie slacker, if you were any good at your job you could get that up to 95% or even more!

I have to have lunch though!

[jmo21]

As a permie I spend probably 80% of my time on the internet, on various technology blogs/forums. They are all related to the job so I don't see any problem, I might visit the odd non IT site (e.g. Tattoo website) but I keep that to a minimum.

Tattoo's? that's a bit random.... do you have any?

Maybe this could be the new "Gladiator films" question

[Scotgal]

Tattoo's? that's a bit random.... do you have any?

Maybe this could be the new "Gladiator films" question

I have a couple actually, my last one I got in the States while on a work trip. I got the word "Code" in binary on my upper arm, it looks quite cool.

[Churchill]

i have a couple actually, my last one i got in the states while on a work trip. I got the word "code" in binary on my upper arm, it looks quite cool.

ascii, ebcdic, unicode?

[Scotgal]

ascii, ebcdic, unicode?

ASCII, I thought about 16 bit Unicode but it seemed to be overkill.

[thunderlizard]

I don't think it happens very often.

The casual surfer can comfort himself with knowledge that (a) the higher up the management ladder they go, the righer they are and the more complicated their personal lives, so the more things they have to sort out online.
(b) HR bods do more casual surfing than anybody.

[seyre1972]

Go with the flow / depends on management view (who's around !!)

I think it depends on the people/management where you are ......

Senior manager (permie who used to be a contractor many moons ago) takes great umbrage if you're not working. Has been known to even comment about people who may be browsing while having a working lunch at their desk. Several of us took to putting up notices saying "on-break" during lunchtimes !!!!

It's amazing though that when this person is out of the office, how much more get's done/working environment feels better/relaxed.

Come renewal time - definitely a mark in the "against column"

[conned tractor]

I had an ex-contractor boss on a previous contract who banned all contractors from using the internet at all. He was a right kiss ar$e tosser.

That was a huge tick in the "against column" come renewal time. Although not the only reason I moved on come renewal.