Do you fool around on the internet while at work or school?

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Do you fool around on the internet while at work or school?

  • Yes

    Votes: 54 81.8%

  • No

    Votes: 12 18.2%
  • Total voters
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Boundary Layer
At work I do a little. Not so much when I've got an interesting project to work on (particularly one that keeps me away from my desk :p ), but definitely if it's a slow day or during coffee break, or near the end of the day, etc. I think it's kind of expected of me to do so though, or at least it isn't frowned upon by my immediate supervisor - I'm employed as a student, so there isn't always work available to be handed down to me, and my boss sends me odd little sites totally unrelated to work just to give me a laugh if he realizes I'm bored.

There is a little bit of a silent battle between me and the IT staff though. There's a corporation wide block on GTP and gmail and a bunch of other sites I frequent, so I spend time finding proxies or weird little loopholes in their best efforts to shut me down.

www.unblockguide.info is the proxy I'm using right now to access GTP. I'm really surprised they haven't blocked it yet - I've been using it for two weeks now, and normally they catch me in about 2 days.

http://www.gmail.com is blocked, as is https://www.gmail.com... but https://mail.google.com/mail works just fine :sly:


I don't think this question applies to university - I'm just wasting my own time there. :D
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Well thank you very much, now I know what the bored tellers at the bank where I work at might use to surf the web...(I work in the IT Dept.) :D

We actually have set up a program called Sonic Wall, which blocks nearly every web-site possible, except search engines like google or yahoo; however, google video, mail and most images are blocked.

  • But since I'm a nice guy, I'll give ya a hint which works against almost (if not all) proxy avoidance systems: Go to google.com (if it's not blocked), and click on Language Tools, scroll down to the translation part, insert the URL address of the blocked web page you're trying to access, and click "translate".

This mostly convenient when you're trying to access text based web sites like blogs, news, and forums. It won't be very useful if you're trying to access MySpace, YouTube, eBay, HI5 and such.
 
I used to work Kinko's graveyard shift a few years back so that's where it all started for me! :guilty:
 
Just yesterday I found an excellent time-passer, too. I was surprised that I managed to get the Java to work on the school computer I was using.

 
I don't work a desk job of any sort, so I can't possibly access the internet at work. My boss does on a regular basis, though - But I think that's common knowledge among the management where I work.

If I did work a desk job, then yeah I imagine I would be on GTP a bit more than I am.
 
Zrow
Your employers just called - you're all fired.
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Both my employers know what I do at work. One always asks "what movie are you watching now?" The other one I TOLD him I bring my 360 or PS3 or... to work. :lol:
 
I used to edit the URL on Google translation to translate English to... English. 💡 My college doesn't have restrictions, and of course my home doesn't either. I don't GTP (yes GTP is a verb) in class though-- A four year degree squeezed into 31 months doesn't give much time to monkey around.
 
I don’t go to GTP in class, but I do log into Gmail and check my RRS feeds during class on Wednesdays just because it’s such a boring class and the teacher sucks.

When I’m actually working at home obviously I’ll take breaks quite frequently to go to GTP.

I don’t have a desk job, but I may in a week so I’ll have to get back to you on that. But I’m going to guess at “no”. ;)
 
Yep, I "muck around" on the internet at work. I use it to reset my mind when moving from one project to another. I also read newspapers online in the morning, lunchtime and afternoon. But that is more work related research than mucking about.
 
Only whilst at work - don't even have a connection at home these days.
 
I don't visit GTP at work. I used to when I was studying though.

As for work now, we call playing games "Research". :D
 
Danoff
I rarely post on GTPlanet from home. Only when someone really has me going on the opinions board.
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That sounds slightly oxymoronic ;)

I work at a university so I'm on GTP mostly during work hours - but my work hours are very flexible and most of my work involves long periods of time waiting, hence internet-time is fairly abundant. However, I appreciate that I am spoiled rotten here, and it's about to come to a crashing halt as I move offices next week.

However, in a previous life, I worked as an insurance clerk and we had no internet or email at all :(
 
I spend alot of my day in front of a computer so I use the internet quite alot during the day. I only really use it for GTP, Ebay and the rest is for property research.

Facebook and the like have been restricted by the directors of the company, which doesn't bother me as I rarely use them.

The companies attitude is very good, they don't mind employees using it as long as it's not abused. They let me run folding@home on my work machine as it doesn't affect any other software we're running.
 
...and no sooner do I post a proxy that's been working for me for two weeks than the IT guys block it on me. But, I've already found another, so no harm done. That's just how the game works.
Ozzy Ramone
Well thank you very much, now I know what the bored tellers at the bank where I work at might use to surf the web...(I work in the IT Dept.) :D

We actually have set up a program called Sonic Wall, which blocks nearly every web-site possible, except search engines like google or yahoo; however, google video, mail and most images are blocked.
  • But since I'm a nice guy, I'll give ya a hint which works against almost (if not all) proxy avoidance systems: Go to google.com (if it's not blocked), and click on Language Tools, scroll down to the translation part, insert the URL address of the blocked web page you're trying to access, and click "translate".
This mostly convenient when you're trying to access text based web sites like blogs, news, and forums. It won't be very useful if you're trying to access MySpace, YouTube, eBay, HI5 and such.
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heh, I know all about the little english to english translation trick. http://translate.google.com is blocked though (and I've got a feeling that I'm the reason it is, because this trick did work for a few days awhile ago).
 
Truth be told, I actually got tired of searching and searching for proxies to use, and instead downloaded the neccesary files and hosted it myself with a free and fairly untraceable domain. It worked pretty well, until they blocked it. Just about everyone told me to do another one, but by that point I'd realised that I'd be in serious trouble should the school ever find out it was me. Still, it was fun while it lasted.
 
I get paid to use the internet at work.

I work in an information department in a library, and we have to do all our enquiries by finding it on the 'net as they don't buy us books and encyclopedias anymore.

As to accessing GTP, I don't use the works PC to browse here, as their use is logged. I use one of our 17 public access PCs, or a laptop using an unsecured public wireless connection.
 
The only internet at work for me is intranet.

Bah.
 
Whenever I get the chance at school, I do. That's usually after school or in computer class (not in it anymore, :( ).

:-)
 
In my last job I was on here all the time, at my current job I'm never on here. I could be, but I don't have the chance to, or the time free to come here and get anything from it. I'm a busy bee where I am now and I'm not always in the office, I'm sometimes traveling between the two north west offices we have, one here and one in Bootle.
 
I work about once a week, and that involves me in the back of a C-17 flying around asleep. When I'm at home the other days of the week [still getting full pay, love my job] I'm either sleeping, surfing the internet, or playing with my daughter.
 

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