I did brow beat my employer to have an on line computer for technical reasons, but i feel guilty that i uses it most of the night viewing forums, so how many of you are as guilty as me?
The title of your thread is perfectly appropriate .....STEALING. DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU'D HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU. Baron Max
Please discontinue abusing your workplace privileges by frittering away valuable time in lowbrow internet discussion forums. Thank you, and God bless.
This is ridiculous. It's not stealing to browse forums at work, I do it all the time. In fact, that's the only reason I'm on sciforums so often. They aren't hiring my time, but my mind. If I had nothing to occupy it between tasks, I would go crazy.
spidergoat :bows: it is an honor to hear such things... it is true, surfing the internet at work does not fall into the category of stealing, hell the internet is always on anyway so how can it be? Baron Max you are wrong here and very, very foolish to believe you can steal the internet from your employeer, it's free... maybe that's why everyone wishes to sue and say they steal it ehh? People don't like free things, bunch of gerks Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Anyways I surf the internet all day long, all week long, and play all at work.. I would go crazy (and have) from lack of entertainment... What one does without the internet: 1. Flips coins 2. Cries
Because most people are paid for a set number of hours per day, are and expected to work that number of hours. If you're surfing the net and still getting paid then you are stealing, or at least obtaining money fraudulently. But it doesn't stop me doing it... like Spidergoat I'm employed for my mind/ knowledge and it's all grist to the mill.
It's not stealing, it's not!!!!!!!!! Oli you are wrong you've been brainwashed by Baron Max! Surfing the internet is free, it'll always be free, if there's no work who cares the employeer is already paying you trash wages anyway might as well have a little fun!
That's a belief that won't stand up in court. Hardly. Check your contract sometime.... and get a better paying job.
There is some indication that surfing at work, or other kinds of goofing off actually increase productivity. http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/03/internet-at-work-distraction-or.html
As long as you get whatever you're meant to be doing done and everyone's happy, why the fuck not? Everybody screws everybody over. The government with their taxes. Your workplace with the wages they pay you. When my dad worked for [insert huge IT company here] and hired him out to companies, they paid up to half a mil £ for about 6 months to use him. They made an absolute shitrake of profit. If the stationery cupboard isn't locked, help yourself to pens and postits. Use half a roll of toilet roll when you go for a shit. Whatever. If you're working for a multinational, which most people probably are in some way or another, I wouldn't feel too bad about it. Everyone's out to get what they can from everyone else, usually in worse ways than spending half an hour browsing the web.
This "stealing work time" crap is merely a catch phrase bad executives came up with to micromanage their staff. If you've been hired for a position, your contract states your duties by the day to the year. That is to say, you'd have specific tasks to complete dependant on the time frame. If you're such a diligent worker that you've completed your tasks for the day, why is it so bad to use the internet for sciforums and the like? It's (arguably) productive, it's not illegal/porn, and for most of us, the running cost is constant regardless of the number of gigabytes downloaded. The set hours are only there because the business entity is expected by the public to be in service for a certain period of time. Thus the employess have to be available but not necessarily doing something office related. In our office, you're measured by tasks and projects. If I take 5 hours to complete a task that was estimated at 7 hours, and my next task requires input; what, should I sit and twiddle my thumbs?
Hmmm, you mean the way my contract has "... and other duties commensurate with the employee's skills and the needs of the employer"? Maybe in the US, but I've never had a contract anywhere near as specific as you mention.
You could go to your boss and ask him/her if there's anything else that needs to be done ........and if not, ask him/her permission to fuck off on the Internet. Baron Max
