I would remove everyones internet access in work

Rabidlamb

As I look around the office now nearly everyone is Facebooking or sending personal e-mails from their Google accounts.
I reckon the average member of staff spends about 2 hours a day surfing & not attending to their work.

When I'm appointed supreme dictator of Ireland the first thing I'll do is remove internet access from all the worker bees.
Only the upper levels of management will be allowed to have access.
I reckon productivity would increase by 25% across the board.

This time saving would allow us to have a staff 10am mass every morning.
Praise be.

ScumLord

This is the correct use of Irony?

listermint

YOUR FIRED >>>

FatherLen

Rabidlamb wrote: »

nearly everyone is Facebooking .

the rest are on boards

godscop

What we would have to actually work ?:D:D

bambera

Rabidlamb wrote: »

As I look around the office now nearly everyone is Facebooking or sending personal e-mails from their Google accounts.
I reckon the average member of staff spends about 2 hours a day surfing & not attending to their work.

When I'm appointed supreme dictator of Ireland the first thing I'll do is remove internet access from all the worker bees.
Only the upper levels of management will be allowed to have access.
I reckon productivity would increase by 25% across the board.

This time saving would allow us to have a staff 10am mass every morning.
Praise be.

Em.. aren't you doing pretty much the same thing?

phill106

Aren't you dossing being on here?

bmarley

Public or private sector worker? Let me guess

Quazzie

listermint wrote: »

YOUR FIRED >>>

Ssshhhh!!

Don't let him know we have poor grammar also.

JonB

Anyone reading this thread from work?

KeithM89_old

Rabidlamb wrote: »

Only the upper levels of management will be allowed to have access.
I reckon productivity would increase by 25% across the board.

Wrong.

When i did my work placement with an IT firm, i got to see everyones browsing history and the 'higher ups' spent way more time of Facebook, Youtube and playing Farmville than everyone else.

IamtheWalrus

I agree with the OP. I wish it was restricted down to just Google.

veryangryman

Rabidlamb wrote: »

As I look around the office now nearly everyone is Facebooking or sending personal e-mails from their Google accounts.
I reckon the average member of staff spends about 2 hours a day surfing & not attending to their work.

When I'm appointed supreme dictator of Ireland the first thing I'll do is remove internet access from all the worker bees.
Only the upper levels of management will be allowed to have access.
I reckon productivity would increase by 25% across the board.

This time saving would allow us to have a staff 10am mass every morning.
Praise be.

Go feck yourself!

Sincerly
Your employee

Rabidlamb

bmarley wrote: »

Public or private sector worker? Let me guess

I'm proud to say I'm not in any way associated with those beardy slush fund hiding Nero fiddling f*cktards.
I'm very much the private sector.

Gosh, I'll have to give confession after that outburst.

sink

I know that the highest traffic for online retailers is usually during normal office hours. People are partaking in a bit of retail therapy while at work.

Mint Sauce

OP has gone very quiet.

FatherLen

i present to you.......... an excuse
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8206562/Watching-funny-videos-at-work-makes-you-more-creative.html

godscop

JonB wrote: »

Anyone reading this thread from work?

Yeah and the boss just gave me my christmas bonus.:D:D
€ 200 oh i love christmas.......................now:)

Naikon

FatherLen wrote: »

i present to you.......... an excuse
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8206562/Watching-funny-videos-at-work-makes-you-more-creative.html

"Sure bossman, the animal porn videos induce a level of creativity which in turn increases my productivity"

The Telegraph, such a well researched and accurate publication:D

Besides, you should be using a reverse ssh tunnel to your home box for surfing in work. It's possible Duh.

red menace

Naikon wrote: »

"Sure bossman, the animal porn videos induce a level of creativity which in turn increases my productivity"

The Telegraph, such a well researched and accurate publication:D

Besides, you should be using a reverse ssh tunnel to your home box for surfing in work. It's possible Duh.

Only if the ports are open.
Ours is locked down tight

Rabidlamb

irish-stew wrote: »

OP has gone very quiet.

Got a good mass in waiting for replies.

Naikon

red menace wrote: »

Only if the ports are open.
Ours is locked down tight

Sucks for you:p Let me guess, Large multinational company? Obviously no names or anything like that on a public forum.

Captain Commie

Rabidlamb wrote: »

As I look around the office now nearly everyone is Facebooking or sending personal e-mails from their Google accounts.
I reckon the average member of staff spends about 2 hours a day surfing & not attending to their work.

Guessing your in work typing that, hypocrite

Rabidlamb wrote: »

This time saving would allow us to have a staff 10am mass every morning.
Praise be.

Sure go with, that will give me time to browse the net as ill not be at the mass

pawrick

I'd go really cracked without the internet in my office and the first office I was in hadn't any got it...in face we had only internal email and had to share a computer between 3 of us! fair enough we had little reason to use the computer during work but the phone bills there were huge due to bordom and always caused trouble with people using other peoples lines on the sly during lunch. Come to think of it that wasn't a bad place to work...no depressing news to hear or read about...my eyes didn't get red as much....I had colouring markers and coloured in things all day

Heisenberg.

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PeakOutput

Rabidlamb wrote: »

As I look around the office now nearly everyone is Facebooking or sending personal e-mails from their Google accounts.
I reckon the average member of staff spends about 2 hours a day surfing & not attending to their work.

When I'm appointed supreme dictator of Ireland the first thing I'll do is remove internet access from all the worker bees.
Only the upper levels of management will be allowed to have access.
I reckon productivity would increase by 25% across the board.

This time saving would allow us to have a staff 10am mass every morning.
Praise be.

if a company is dumb enough to not block access to those things then they deserve to be ****ed up the ass by inefficiency

Wompa1

My current work involved a lot of loading and down time. If I didn't have the internet I would go stir crazy

PeakOutput

Scien wrote: »

There's been lots of studies done to disprove the theory that internet restriction increases productivity.

I remember having a job about 3 years ago which had everything blocked. I couldn't do a tap I was so bored. Looking at a computer screen for 8hrs a day with just internal systems and solitaire would make anyone go crazy.

Any smart company should grant employees full access to the internet.
It's surprising how much work you can get done when you're allowed browse the net for 10 mins here & there.

depends on the job

Cookie_Monster

Rabidlamb wrote: »

As I look around the office now nearly everyone is Facebooking or sending personal e-mails from their Google accounts.
I reckon the average member of staff spends about 2 hours a day surfing & not attending to their work.

When I'm appointed supreme dictator of Ireland the first thing I'll do is remove internet access from all the worker bees.
Only the upper levels of management will be allowed to have access.
I reckon productivity would increase by 25% across the board.

This time saving would allow us to have a staff 10am mass every morning.
Praise be.

but I can't do my job without the internet

techdiver

Rabidlamb wrote: »

I reckon productivity would increase by 25% across the board.

Not according to this.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19518_3-10211019-238.html

gleep

godscop wrote: »

Yeah and the boss just gave me my christmas bonus.:D:D
€ 200 oh i love christmas.......................now:)

Did the weirdo get one too?

red menace

Naikon wrote: »

Sucks for you:p Let me guess, Large multinational company? Obviously no names or anything like that on a public forum.

Nope small Financial company they are serious about their security

Naikon

Scien wrote: »

There's been lots of studies done to disprove the theory that internet restriction increases productivity.

I remember having a job about 3 years ago which had everything blocked. I couldn't do a tap I was so bored. Looking at a computer screen for 8hrs a day with just internal systems and solitaire would make anyone go crazy.

Any smart company should grant employees full access to the internet.
It's surprising how much work you can get done when you're allowed browse the net for 10 mins here & there.

Funny thing is, most of these companies that block internet access, could have stupid password schemes like "employee-name-123" or similar. I have heard of cases like this in the past. If your password does not resemble something like this string "V*<&+'Q4_A8#]c<kWq" you are doing it wrong. Even better, ditch password logins totally. Key based authentication is the way to go.

Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/538/

Heisenberg.

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Naikon

Scien wrote: »

Rubbish, those who are blocking sites are the ones being screwed by inefficiency.
You can't force someone to work. It's completely counter productive.

If I ever get to the position of CEO I would never restrict internet access.
Some of these old brick & mortar age companies are living in the dark ages when it comes to work practices.

I suppose you can rest in the solace that the old fogies who introduce these policies will be dead soon. I am guessing places that restrict internet access suffer from the old school boss mentality.

anniehoo

I looooove having the net in work, it helps break up a painfully slow day. Although it also makes me a total lazy b!tch like today when i actually have stuff i need finished for xmas. We have literally no internet limits in here its great.Some of my mates work in archaic businesses where they wont even let their mail filter accept photos in email attachments and very mild swear words like "crap" and "feck" are banned too and returned to sender. Ridiculous.

Rabidlamb

anniehoo wrote: »

I looooove having the net in work, it helps break up a painfully slow day. Although it also makes me a total lazy b!tch like today when i actually have stuff i need finished for xmas. We have literally no internet limits in here its great.Some of my mates work in archaic businesses where they wont even let their mail filter accept photos in email attachments and very mild swear words like "crap" and "feck" are banned too and returned to sender. Ridiculous.

That's the sort of limitations I'm after.
A place of quite solace where work can flourish.
Then a nice mass.

phill106

The reason most companies implement such policies is to show that they have made some effort to safeguard employees against inappropriate material in the workplace.
If there was no effort to limit internet access in anyway, in the event of one employee sending on for instance a link to a dodgy site, and the employee who received it wanted to make an issue of it, both the sender and the employer could be held liable.
While no filter will block everything, it shows you made an effort, which is generally considered to be enough.

When I actually get a job. I won't be able to use the net.

Boom_Bap

My company just informed me that they are as of now after reading this thread resticting access to the

ronkmonster

I login to my PC at home to browse net at work. No record of any sites on work PC

godscop

gleep wrote: »

Did the weirdo get one too?

No he didnt..His bonus is to be mingling with society

phill106

Boom_Bap wrote: »

My company just informed me that they are as of now after reading this thread resticting access to the

So how did you click "post"

PeakOutput

Scien wrote: »

Rubbish, those who are blocking sites are the ones being screwed by inefficiency.
You can't force someone to work. It's completely counter productive.

If I ever get to the position of CEO I would never restrict internet access.
Some of these old brick & mortar age companies are living in the dark ages when it comes to work practices.

depends on the job, what do you think people did before the internet? sit there being bored doing nothing? eh no they worked, this need to be constantly stimulated is a relatively new phenomenon.

there are jobs i have done were i could outwork everyone on my team with full internet access and there are different jobs(mainly call center stuff) were there is not a chance id have been as productive if i had access to the net

Boardnashea

The train stops at the train station
The bus stops at the bus station...

What happens at a work station?!:D

Feeona

phill106 wrote: »

So how did you click "post"

You've too much down time on your hands :P

BornIn84

I think you have to look at WHY we browse websites at work...
Not to sound like a hippie or an anarchist but the way we work needs to change...some of us are shoved into work that isnt inspiring or anything we can get passionate about.We stay in these jobs for security and one day we'll wake up when we're old and realise we could have done something thats more fulfilling if we only had the balls to try..alot of us are just in the wrong types of work for our personalities...thankfully things are slowely but surely changing...
Read these books..really good

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Living-Dead-Switched-Shocking-Office/dp/184112656X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1292603817&sr=8-2

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Excellent-Anything-Transforming-Forgotten-Performance/dp/0857200488/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1292603841&sr=1-1

kowloon

People messed about in work before there was internet access, it's just a new way to waste time. It's not like you're no longer expected to do your job.

freyners

if im going to relate this to my own situation then the op is making no sense

im currently finishing off my twice yearly study binge, 10 hours shift studying the same crap for 3 weeks really does make ya bored as fcuk....... i tried blocking my access to boards/facebook/youtube for the first few days using study help on chrome, after about the third day i really couldnt work my i was so bored and i wasn't really getting anything done

so for the last 2 and a half weeks ive been giving myself 50 mins on, 10 mins on the internet and its worked a treat, not gettin as bored and its really helped regain my concentration when im gettin kind of listless

anyways, enuf of this, one exam left.....then FREEDOM!!:p

squeakyduck

If you took away everyone's internet access in work, I think you should put full internet access on our computers in work....we currently have limited internet access and anything fun is blocked....it's only fair!

ronkmonster

OP, are you also going to block mobile signal to stop people with mobile internet. My phone can be used as a wireless access point for my laptop.