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Sia

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 10:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Back before I moved back "home" to rural America, bought a house, got married and had kids I worked for a large corporation in my state's capitol where there were lots of security measures in place--even back then it seemed excessive. I repeated in a meeting a rumour that I'd heard about security cameras in our buildings and parking lots and the monitoring of ALL telephone conversations; I lost that job not long after that meeting. Makes you go, "hmmmmm," doesn't it? This was in the late 1980s and I'm sure that all the e-mails were screened. Who knows how extensive/intrusive the cameras were then. I'm so glad to be out of that environment!

Corriecat

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 03:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Having the live feeds on at work is pretty much just like listening to the radio so I don't have a problem with it. I listen to Days of Our Lives on a radio that gets tv stations.

What makes me mad is a person at my work who plays around on a game web site while pretending to work and the rest of us end up doing that persons work. This same person is the company tattle tale on everyone else who is late or doing anything personal on work time.

Ravenly

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 04:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Corriecat,

I have that exact same guy at my work! He is SUCH a jerk! He also takes lunches and doesn't write his time down (He is hourly) and then pays himself for 11 hours of overtime A DAY!!! Ughhhh...And he is ALWAYS tattling to the boss about who was late, who was on the phone or using hte internet.

Deaffy, All I have to say is, I am very glad you are not MY boss! LOL j/k..well, sorta!! :)

Grannygrunt

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 06:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I work at a school where we are they 30 mins early because parents drop kids off so THEY can get to work on time and don't want to pay before school care and don't want to be late. We also stay AFTER school until the last child is gone. And sometimes that is an hour and a half because the parents "just couldn't get away" to get to school on time to pick up their child. I go way above and beyond the call of duty because I understand that parents get caught and can't get there on time. That also means if I have 15 minute break in the morning and 30 mins at lunch and a 15 min break in the afternoon, I don't feel guilty about checking the feeds, or checking my email. That is supposedly "my time off". But let me tell you, I NEVER get those breaks and maybe a fifteen minute lunch because as we all know where there is children concerned, there is always something else to do. So if I do catch a minute and can check the feeds or whatever, I certainly don't feel I havent' shafted my employer. If you go the extra mile most of the time, your employer will also go the extra mile.

I AM NOW OFF OF MY SOAPBOX........

Yellek

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Granny: *applause*

I totally agree! It goes both ways.

Caliogirl

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I work in an IT dept. and babysit a bunch of techs. I problem solve on the fly, make customers feel they are the most important creatures on earth and save the company tons of money while keeping my fellow employees (on any given day) entertained, soothed, counseled, fed, burped and patted on the back.
Maybe it's cause I'm a mom I'm just very adept at multitasking - hour long conference calls are a great time to watch the boards while some self important windbag comes up with a make work project for a resource pool thats already streched thin.
Naw I don't feel guilty for checking the boards while at work.
Hey for a whole week we tested the new "foul language email filter" some bright spark installed (without testing) to see what words we could get through... don't even get me started on that !

Sia

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 10:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey, Caliogirl, please share with us some stories about the "foul language e-mail filter!" I am dying to hear the outcome of that! You could've had a BALL with that, since you could justify any nasty thing you wanted to write on the pretense that you were just "testing the new filter!" Come on, please tell!

Caliogirl

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 10:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
All right Sia you asked -- we started out fairly tame - I typed the word "asset" with an unfortunate space in the word. Got dinged on that one. At this point I should mention that mail is only filtered if we are sending externally -- apperently calling your boss or your cube farm neighbour a naughty word is permissible...

Back to our story. I was sending these naughty words back and forth to my former co-worker and having way too much fun with it and we discovered that the "f" word was banned but apparently $hit is appropriate business language. The best is this excerpt from one of our emails (discussing The Mole 2):

Me to him:
Quick switch from Moles to Pussies...
> Just an aside - ••••• is banned by the email filter -- Marion tried to send
> me something today with the word ••••• and it was bounced...

Him to me:
You should file a complaint on the basis of gender harassment. Boners are ok
but we can't have any •••••. Tim had a hundred boners last week, but Marion's
••••• is banned.... Sounds discriminatory to me.

I laughed so hard I fell off my chair. Hope I haven't offended anyone.

Editors note: apparently pu$$y is banned here as well :-)

Bernie

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 10:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mrs. Slocum on Are You Being Served wouldn't be happy, then!

Sia

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 11:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Good story, Caliogirl. Thanks for sharing. Makes me sort of miss the corporate workplace, but I wouldn't be able to do the things I do now if I hadn't left and changed my life entirely. Working in some offices is just tons of fun! Other places you end up, however, are stressful and feel constrictive. Sometimes it's hard to strike a comfortable balance.

Aria

Saturday, August 03, 2002 - 12:44 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thx for the laugh Caliogirl! I'm glad I work from home! Still LMAO! I feel for all of your stories about controlling employers. I've been there done that and I ain't goin back.

BTW Corrie, I agree the live feeds are just like the Radio and I read your profile was that class before or after the RR show? LOL!