Work Experience

LegacyUser

Boss called into his office stating that a kid who is on work experience and is at various departments, he was with me for couple hours, he told his aunt I was on internet all afternoon, then she told boss,


while I've been on line but not checking and have showed him couple things I'm not happy he want back to his aunt what should I do

jimoc

Does your company have a published IT policy which you signed up to stating that you are not allowed to use the internet during working hours?

If it does, then tough, you broke the rules and got caught (by a sneaky bastard, true, but still caught).

If it doesn't then I cant really see why they have called you in as you were not doing anything that you aren't allowed to do.

Bandana boy

work experience wrote: »

Boss called into his office stating that a kid who is on work experience and is at various departments, he was with me for couple hours, he told his aunt I was on internet all afternoon, then she told boss,


while I've been on line but not checking and have showed him couple things I'm not happy he want back to his aunt what should I do

Why would you be goofing off on the internet when you have somebody shadowing you ?
Especially when that person is related to somebody higher up in the company.

I suspect you are going to have to keep your nose clean for the next 6 months or so and put in a real shift each day to win back their trust.Once you get this reputation(even if it was an isolated incident) you are going to find it hard to shake it.

Mrs OBumble

work experience wrote: »

while I've been on line but not checking and have showed him couple things I'm not happy he want back to his aunt what should I do

First, you should make sure that you are 100% on top of your job.

Second, you should make sure you know what your boss's expectations about internet use are.

Once you're ok on those two fronts, do nothing more except be more wary about what you show to who: one of life's nasty lessons is that you can't always trust your colleagues.

the_syco

work experience wrote: »

Boss called into his office stating that a kid who is on work experience and is at various departments, he was with me for couple hours, he told his aunt I was on internet all afternoon, then she told boss

I'm thinking if you got sacked, he'd get your job?

LegacyUser

OP here

He was down with me for 2 hours, showed him what we do, and we'd been out of the office for an hour, I did come in and check a mail on FB, I was on it for all about 5 minutes, point I'm getting at he told his aunt I was on it all afternoon and, while there isn't a policy about not being on internet, I always get what ever is done and in between I may check e-mails etc.. while I'm doing my rounds I do notice others on FB and min their windows when I come into the office

Don't like people just coming in and mouthing off without giving full story and that's what happened

looksee

Couldn't you invite the boss to look at your browsing history - that would prove where you were and how long? Send him a screen shot if necessary.