Mike Perry wrote:
>
> Hi!
> I know this is off topic, but I noticed that a lot of you guys are
> Network Admins or similar..
>
> I was just wondering if the following Saga is common practice by you
> guys...
> We have just been connected in the past month to the Internet at work
> and the following is the Lowdown of the past 2 days here.
> BTW, my work machine is a Windoze98 one :-(
Yes, it's completely common (on both sides of the tale). Businesses
providing Internet access have a large responsibility to ensure that it
doesn't provide/promote an "uncomfortable workplace" and that the
facilities are not used to harass others. That goes for inside and
outside the company.
> You know, if the stupid bugger would just give me a call and say "We
> don't want you to go to porno sites or chat with your work computer"
> Then he wouldn't need to fartass around wasting both his time and mine,
> as I DON'T go to Porno Sites, and if it really get's his knickers in a
> knot about chatting, then OK, it is possible to accommodate him...
> But that would be to logical and wouldn't allow him to flex his scrawny
> little Nerd Muscles.....
Ever consider that there's 200 of you little buggers running around?
Heck, he MIGHT have time to actually send an email about the new
situation if he weren't having to create login scripts to counteract all
the changed settings and extra software being placed on the computer.
> And what will appear on my screen during Logon tomorrow morning?
> Maybe a variant on Deltree C:\progra~1\Netscape or something?
>
> Jesus if he wasn't acting like an asshole I wouldn't be wasting my time
> trying to foil him..
Take a hint. The filter is there for a reason. If you've got a
complaint about it, take it up with HR. IS doesn't make the rules, it
follows them.
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Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
