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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
7:43:00 AM EDT
Hearing American Idiot -- Green Day
This will be good news for some of you who, ahem, occasionally visit non-work related Web sites while you're at work:
Surfing the Web at work is equivalent to reading a newspaper or talking on the phone, an administrative law judge said in recommending the lightest possible punishment for a city worker accused of disregarding warnings to stay off the Internet.
The case involved a New York City worker who has been fired after visiting news and travel sites while at work after being told not to. Now the worker gets off only with a reprimand, which we can all agree is better than losing one's job.
Of course, this was a union employee at a government job; if you're just some schmo at a job with a private company, you can still get canned if your boss tells you not to surf the Web, and you do anyway. You'll have to fight for your right to Web surf!
Are you allowed to surf at work? Do you think it gets in the way of your doing your job?
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7:43:00 AM EDT
Hearing American Idiot -- Green Day
A Small Moment of Sanity
This will be good news for some of you who, ahem, occasionally visit non-work related Web sites while you're at work:
Surfing the Web at work is equivalent to reading a newspaper or talking on the phone, an administrative law judge said in recommending the lightest possible punishment for a city worker accused of disregarding warnings to stay off the Internet.
The case involved a New York City worker who has been fired after visiting news and travel sites while at work after being told not to. Now the worker gets off only with a reprimand, which we can all agree is better than losing one's job.
Of course, this was a union employee at a government job; if you're just some schmo at a job with a private company, you can still get canned if your boss tells you not to surf the Web, and you do anyway. You'll have to fight for your right to Web surf!
Are you allowed to surf at work? Do you think it gets in the way of your doing your job?
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Well I can because it is "research" for my psych classes! HA! Actually, I figure for a bit I do have a lunch break, and I could certain read the paper or talk on the phone then so...You know I think it all depends. If you have a job where you have nothing to really do except wait for a customer to come in etc then ya they would read the paper but if not, if they have plenty to do & are not getting it done then they should not be surfing. It also depends what you are surfing on!!!
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What bothers me about this is the guy had been told *repeatedly* to stop surfing the web at work. It's not like he didn't know it was inappropriate, or against the rules. He knew. Management had told him, OVER AND OVER AGAIN, not to surf the web at work. As far as I'm concerned, the judge was dead wrong in this case.
-Paul
http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/
4/25/06 11:43 AM
That was at a time when The Company was still extremely sensitive to anti-trust issues, keeping records was an obsession, and the IRS was intrusive. But I suspect it's still true that if someone wanted to hurt a company, personal use of company equipment is still a vulnerable spot. I wonder if this was brought up in court....
~~Silk
http://silkendrum.blogspot.co