Reply to: Porno in the workplace

[original PM]

Do you think bazongas is a medical term??

Sounds pretty legit to me

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[EternalOptimist]

I call bollox on this. Where is this database? - I spent many years working on the infrastructure for the NHS and as far as I know they couldn't query a wet fart with it.

it was a joke of course. I did a gig working on the NHS DB and the lad in me said, 'I wonder if I could...'
then the contractor in me said 'don't be a d!ckhead'

but I post here as a lad, not as a sensible businessman

[minestrone]

I call bollox on this. Where is this database? - I spent many years working on the infrastructure for the NHS and as far as I know they couldn't query a wet fart with it.

Of course it's bollox, it's a joke.

[Gumbo Robot]

I got caught by one of these once too. IIRC the company was called PayForIt (Payforit) and activated by clicking a link next to a microscopic check box saying "i agree to be charged £x.."

It only works when you're surfing using your phone provider's ISP and not via WiFi

That's it. That's what they do...

[EternalOptimist]

my mate got a job where he could see the entire NHS database.
After a year going through the 'select * where condition = nymphomania'

then a year going through the 'select * where bazongas > DD'


I finally

I mean HE finally decided its a bad idea

[PerfectStorm]

I got caught by one of these once too. IIRC the company was called PayForIt (Payforit) and activated by clicking a link next to a microscopic check box saying "i agree to be charged £x.."

It only works when you're surfing using your phone provider's ISP and not via WiFi

[MicrosoftBob]

Do they run Windows for Wànkers and Orifice 4.2?

SExchange 2003 up the backend?

If they're going to running something ancient surely it would be Back Orifice

[SlipTheJab]

Well, a couple of days in and all I can say is that I'm not exactly comfortable being asked to look at eWank.com to get ideas for CSS styles but there you go.

I also have to browse these sites using my own mobile - gawd knows what the missus would say if she looked at my browsing history

Anyhow, It pays the bills and the market is really dead at the moment. Worryingly dead, in fact.

At least you have an excuse when the missus stumbles upon your internet history, it's work!

[stek]

Porno in the workplace

Do they run Windows for Wànkers and Orifice 4.2?

SExchange 2003 up the backend?

[Gumbo Robot]

Well, a couple of days in and all I can say is that I'm not exactly comfortable being asked to look at eWank.com to get ideas for CSS styles but there you go.

I also have to browse these sites using my own mobile - gawd knows what the missus would say if she looked at my browsing history

Anyhow, It pays the bills and the market is really dead at the moment. Worryingly dead, in fact.

[minestrone]

I declined some work that was in secured loans, they wanted me to SMS home owners that were declined pay day loans in the last year and hit them with offers of secured loans. Pretty much setting them up to lose their house.

[vetran]

I thought one of the benefits of contracting were that you didn't have to get involved in the business. If you're paid to change tapes, or monkey some code is it really any different to being a window cleaner? Nobody's asking you to embrace the core principals (or lack thereof) of the organisation.

When I worked for a client that created software for the police I know there was at least one person come for an interview and decide to turn it down on moral grounds. So you probably have a point. I still feel a little uneasy at the fact I helped the US military kill people in third world countries, but I was a permie then.

ah the I was only following orders gambit, how is that working for you?

[d000hg]

I thought one of the benefits of contracting were that you didn't have to get involved in the business. If you're paid to change tapes, or monkey some code is it really any different to being a window cleaner?

If I'm directly working on the product, then yes.

[VectraMan]

I'm not hiring a window cleaner to be involved in my business. If you want to equate yourself to a cleaner be my guest but I sure don't view myself that way.

I thought one of the benefits of contracting were that you didn't have to get involved in the business. If you're paid to change tapes, or monkey some code is it really any different to being a window cleaner? Nobody's asking you to embrace the core principals (or lack thereof) of the organisation.

When I worked for a client that created software for the police I know there was at least one person come for an interview and decide to turn it down on moral grounds. So you probably have a point. I still feel a little uneasy at the fact I helped the US military kill people in third world countries, but I was a permie then.

[d000hg]

If you need a window cleaner you don't expect to have to tell him in advance what type of business it is you do. You just hire a window cleaner.

I'm not hiring a window cleaner to be involved in my business. If you want to equate yourself to a cleaner be my guest but I sure don't view myself that way.

And anyway I was speaking pragmatically. If you work in an area people find controversial, you can expect some applicants won't want the gig once they find out - therefore it's in your own interest to weed them out early on rather than have someone turn up and then quit.