Banned from the internet

[Ann D 0]

Okay all it will be hard getting on line to check this site. I have been banned from the internet at work. Apparently I spent too much time on the computer last month.

Okay so the break down out of 160 hours of work; I apparently spent 14.52 hours on the internet. Now understand part of my job is research. I am building a new program for my department and I do a lot of research but apparently, I am on the computer too much according to them. Less then 10% of the month was spent on the internet.

SO when I get home if I have enough time I will log in and check on everyone.

Kind of sad. Hopefully my boss will move on to another area and I can get back to my peaceful exsistence. :ohmy:

[msjessy 0]

I know for myself, I barely spent time on the Internet until I found this website. Now I'm on here daily for a few hours.

Lapbandtalk is amazing.

[micountryfarm 0]

LOL Can ya get your fix on your breaks?

[JohnC 31]

Ann, Where in St. Louis did u have surgery & who is your Doctor?

[JamieNP 20]

I am addicted to this site! I have a blackberry, so everytime I get an email message (or a new post from one of my threads) I vibrate!! So I feel like I am on my blackberrry all the time checking out the threads while I am at work.:biggrin2:

[SpecialK 22]

Sorry to hear you got your internet wings at work clipped but it happens and I happen to be in a job role in IT Security and compliance to company policies and things where I get exposed to being the group to have to do the monitoring of internet use. It turns out that it is really sad how many employers have had to purchase and implement expensive blocking and filtering software to keep employees and contractors from abusing their internet privileges on all kinds of sites. There are companies that have all sports, entertainment, games, and miscellaneous sites all blocked to keep productivity up. The ugly part of the things I see are the ones who still try to surf pornography while on the job - we have a posted zero tolerance policy that people can be and have been fired for their first offense.

My own company blocks all access to every personal email site, anything that has been categorized as racist, hate, bomb making, and various things that I would have never believed we would have to block in order for employees to use the right discretion but they just don't do it. Its men, women, younger and older, married, single, gay and straight, etc. that abuse things at work. We can see what sites someone visited, how many times they hit the site, per day, per month, what category the site is considered, how many minutes went by from the time you hit one website until you moved to another, what files were downloaded, etc. Bottom line, the internet resources of the company are theirs to monitor at all times.

So, for now, I'd take this slap on the hands as something of a learning experience, and wait to see what it takes to earn your internet privileges at work back again.

Sorry for the tough love here but if you boss could see all your hours on the internet were for this website or others that he/she knew were not work related, he was within the company rights to do what he did.

[Laurinda 1]

Special K What an cool job you have I find it interesting and creepy all at the same time lol

[OH Juli 15]

Listen to you Kathy...I had no idea that's what you did!

Very cool indeed.

And very true. It will be a sad day when I'm slapped down...I expect it will happen sooner or later.