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

[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.

[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"

[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.

[Scotgal]

ascii, ebcdic, unicode?

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

[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]

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.

[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]

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!

[doodab]

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

[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!

[Scotgal]

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.

[psychocandy]

Currently consigned to 8 hours a day reading manuals - its 2nd day.

I'd go mad if I didnt have access to the internet so its to the clients advantage. ;-)

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Regularly moaned at but never canned for it. I wonder if all the people who take so much interest in trying to micro-manage might benefit from attending to their own work a bit more rather than poking their noses into mine I thought it was 2011 not 1900 Mr Gradgrind.

[doodab]

Is that a specialist version?

No that's ****book. According to my spam.

[original PM]

what I've found is that nobody bothers about the surfing - until such time as they are looking for an excuse to get rid and then they will trawl through the web history.

SO if you keep delivering and don't rock the boat you are normally ok but the key is keep delivering.....
although some sys admins take their jobs far to seriously....