No Facebook at work!? How do you expect me to go an entire 8 hours without seeing what all my friends are up to and posting every random thought that happens to rattle through my brain!? What if I see a funny picture that I just have to share? I can't wait until 5:00! The world must know that I'm in a bad mood because my car is making a funny noise! Pay attention to me!!!!

Not that I use it myself, but my company figured a long time ago that the best way to stop that was to block the whole site.

It only becomes annoying when I am doing due diligence on someone and the freaking facebook page is one of the top results and is blocked.

In before the snowflake brigade demanding their rights to use social media while at work.

/farking at work
//a privilege, not a right

Fabric_Man: "While you may wish for your company's computers to be used only for work purposes, this is unrealistic."

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Bullshiat. If you have something you're supposed to be working on, then get to work. If you don't have anything to work on, go let your boss know. I'm sure he or she will find something for you to do.

My company asked me what fark.com was once. After I told them what it was they pretty much shrugged it off and let me go back to "work". They probably would have complained if I was on fark all day and no work was done. I can pretty much get most of what I need done before 1 pm and dont have to worry about doing much of anything else til 4:30 pm. They have fired people for being on FB all day and for texting and making personal calls all day.
One guy that used to sit across from me would come in about an hour late on his phone talking to whoever, login and be on espn.com til 11ish then hang up and say good morning to everyone. Then he would cpmplain about how swamped he was. He also thought he was the hardest worker there.

But fark.com is OK, right?

Even if they "ban" Facebook at your workplace, you can always use it on your phone. And if they ban usage of phones, you might double-check to make sure you're not working in a Chinese sweatshop.

Fabric_Man: "While you may wish for your company's computers to be used only for work purposes, this is unrealistic."

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Pre-internet, office phones were to be used for business only, and the photocopier was for business docs only. Those restrictions were just as widely ignored. If a business actually enforced all their rules, they'd have a mass exodus starting with the better employees who had the easiest time finding a less oppressive place to work. Soon the only ones left would be the dregs who nobody else wanted to hire.

Buy an Iphone. LOL. WTF did ppl du b4 FB!? IDK

Honest Bender: Bullshiat. If you have something you're supposed to be working on, then get to work. If you don't have anything to work on, go let your boss know. I'm sure he or she will find something for you to do.

Spoken like a man who's never worked a day outside retail in his entire life....

2 surefire ways to get people to read your website

1. tiny text
2. in light grey

Splinshints: Honest Bender: Bullshiat. If you have something you're supposed to be working on, then get to work. If you don't have anything to work on, go let your boss know. I'm sure he or she will find something for you to do.

Spoken like a man who's never worked a day outside retail in his entire life....

wtf are you talking about?

Splinshints: Honest Bender: Bullshiat. If you have something you're supposed to be working on, then get to work. If you don't have anything to work on, go let your boss know. I'm sure he or she will find something for you to do.

Spoken like a man who's never worked a day outside retail in his entire life....

lol I was thinking the same thing

Honest Bender: Splinshints: Honest Bender: Bullshiat. If you have something you're supposed to be working on, then get to work. If you don't have anything to work on, go let your boss know. I'm sure he or she will find something for you to do.

Spoken like a man who's never worked a day outside retail in his entire life....

wtf are you talking about?

my boss is trying to find a way to pass the time, too

"While you may wish for your company's computers to be used only for work purposes, this is unrealistic."

Well, sure, if you are too stupid to put up a firewall, then yes.

"Provide an avenue for appeal and attend to employees' due process rights."

WTF does that even mean? I can't walk up behind someone to remind them they have reports that are late, see them playing solitaire, and fire them on the spot? Why the hell not?

Honest Bender: wtf are you talking about?

For the most part, only people with no or low skill jobs have to be constantly given busy work just so they're doing something. The rest of us are paid not for our ability to be a pair of free hands, but rather for our skills. This creates situations where we may not have anything to do at any given point in time, but that's okay because we're kept around for those times when we're needed.

If you're a professional manager and you have the attitude that people must be constantly doing something anything, then you're not a good manager. If you're an employee and you have that attitude, you probably spend a lot of time straightening racks in the Juniors department.

Pre-internet, office phones were to be used for business only, and the photocopier was for business docs only. Those restrictions were just as widely ignored. If a business actually enforced all their rules, they'd have a mass exodus starting with the better employees who had the easiest time finding a less oppressive place to work. Soon the only ones left would be the dregs who nobody else wanted to hire.

I think companies should find a medium. I saw one office I was doing work in fire some guy for printing 2000 flyers for his band on a real high end color copier. I think back then the cost of a color copy on that machine ran about 55 cents. But yeah I wouldnt want to work at a place that was on lockdown over a missing paper clip either.

Splinshints: Honest Bender: wtf are you talking about?

For the most part, only people with no or low skill jobs have to be constantly given busy work just so they're doing something. The rest of us are paid not for our ability to be a pair of free hands, but rather for our skills. This creates situations where we may not have anything to do at any given point in time, but that's okay because we're kept around for those times when we're needed.

If you're a professional manager and you have the attitude that people must be constantly doing something anything, then you're not a good manager. If you're an employee and you have that attitude, you probably spend a lot of time straightening racks in the Juniors department.

"If you have time to lean, you have time to clean."

-flipped burgers in high school
//HATED that statement

Splinshints: The rest of us are paid not for our ability to be a pair of free hands, but rather for our skills. This creates situations where we may not have anything to do at any given point in time, but that's okay because we're kept around for those times when we're needed.

That's why I'm on call. If there's nothing for me to do, I go the fark home. If they need me, they call me. Hell, most of my job can be done remotely anyway. And there are people below me I can conscript to do my menial bidding when needed.

Sounds like you guys just have crappy jobs.

Honest Bender: Splinshints: The rest of us are paid not for our ability to be a pair of free hands, but rather for our skills. This creates situations where we may not have anything to do at any given point in time, but that's okay because we're kept around for those times when we're needed.

That's why I'm on call. If there's nothing for me to do, I go the fark home. If they need me, they call me. Hell, most of my job can be done remotely anyway. And there are people below me I can conscript to do my menial bidding when needed.

Sounds like you guys just have crappy jobs.

You're a camgirl, aren't you.

Honest Bender: That's why I'm on call. If there's nothing for me to do, I go the fark home. If they need me, they call me. Hell, most of my job can be done remotely anyway. And there are people below me I can conscript to do my menial bidding when needed.

Sounds like you guys just have crappy jobs.

So, basically, either you don't get paid for your time off or your earlier comment doesn't apply to you and you're basically on my side in pointing out its general absurdity in regards to the professional workforce?

Or are you implying that you get paid to sit at home, in which case I'm still right?

I'm having a hard time figuring out how your earlier comment fits in with anything you've said since unless you just made a random comment without any intention of ever defending it. Which, of course, would make perfect sense given we're on Fark.

Honest Bender: Splinshints: The rest of us are paid not for our ability to be a pair of free hands, but rather for our skills. This creates situations where we may not have anything to do at any given point in time, but that's okay because we're kept around for those times when we're needed.

That's why I'm on call. If there's nothing for me to do, I go the fark home. If they need me, they call me. Hell, most of my job can be done remotely anyway. And there are people below me I can conscript to do my menial bidding when needed.

Sounds like you guys just have crappy jobs.

One of my cousins is an elevator repairman, he gets calls out to the UN building and Radio City music hall during events, just in case an elevator stops and some high mucky muck is stuck, but 99.9% of the time he is reading the paper or doing the crosswords and he make 6 figures easily.

Splinshints: So, basically, either you don't get paid for your time off

Salaried.

or your earlier comment doesn't apply to you

Of course it applies to me. If there's nothing for me to do, I go home. I don't sit at work and do non-work stuff. It's unprofessional.

Kanemano: One of my cousins is an elevator repairman, more text here

Sounds like a pretty sweet gig.

I just find it humorous that an article telling you how to set up policies restricting Facebook use has a "like" button at the bottom.

Splinshints: Honest Bender: That's why I'm on call. If there's nothing for me to do, I go the fark home. If they need me, they call me. Hell, most of my job can be done remotely anyway. And there are people below me I can conscript to do my menial bidding when needed.

Sounds like you guys just have crappy jobs.

So, basically, either you don't get paid for your time off or your earlier comment doesn't apply to you and you're basically on my side in pointing out its general absurdity in regards to the professional workforce?

Or are you implying that you get paid to sit at home, in which case I'm still right?

I'm having a hard time figuring out how your earlier comment fits in with anything you've said since unless you just made a random comment without any intention of ever defending it. Which, of course, would make perfect sense given we're on Fark.

We all understander HB just fine. Maybe you should stop trolling and go back to work.

ltdanman44: Splinshints: Honest Bender: Bullshiat. If you have something you're supposed to be working on, then get to work. If you don't have anything to work on, go let your boss know. I'm sure he or she will find something for you to do.

Spoken like a man who's never worked a day outside retail in his entire life....

lol I was thinking the same thing

I've never worked in the cubes.... are you expected to fark around for part of the day?

Warlordtrooper: Fabric_Man: "While you may wish for your company's computers to be used only for work purposes, this is unrealistic."

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While I agree with you that it's unrealistic, If I was in charge of an IT department, Facebook would be the first thing on the block list.

/Fark would still be open of course

At my work, anything social or that could be a source of viruses and trojans is blocked. Facebook, livejournal, twitter, flickr, ebay, trademe, all webmail, fark (although it's blocked for obscenity, not for social network). Hell, even crossword dictionaries are blocked as 'social'. Sometimes the filter accidentally blocks regular dictionaries because they contain obscenities. Using more than 15 minutes of personal internet time is a firing offence (although you won't actually get in trouble for it unless they're looking for a reason to get rid of you).

Somehow we all make it through the day without a nervous breakdown caused by lack of shallow validation of our trivial narcissistic status updates. Even the young folks.

As to the complete arse saying if you have to be working all the time your job must be menial; whilst my job may be suck (because I currently work for government and therefore my customers are the general public, made up mainly of arses like said poster), I'm constantly busy because the right-wing government has forced budget cuts leading to understaffing.

/Still looking for one of these rumoured easy government jobs

LouDobbsAwaaaay: Honest Bender: If there's nothing for me to do, I go home.

I thought if there's nothing for you to do, you were supposed to go to your boss and tell him so he can find something for you.

Or go home. I didn't really state my point very well there. The point I was going for was: Don't waste your employers time. The flip side to that is, try not to let your employer waste your time either.

If there's something you could be doing, then do it. If there's nothing for you to do, go home.

Honest Bender: LouDobbsAwaaaay: Honest Bender: If there's nothing for me to do, I go home.

I thought if there's nothing for you to do, you were supposed to go to your boss and tell him so he can find something for you.

Or go home. I didn't really state my point very well there. The point I was going for was: Don't waste your employers time. The flip side to that is, try not to let your employer waste your time either.

If there's something you could be doing, then do it. If there's nothing for you to do, go home.

Oh, you were serious?

Sure, there's never any reason why you may have to wait upon something else for a few minutes before you can continue working on some task...that'd get really annoying having to start heading home while waiting for that old dinosaur of a router you're working on has a chance to come to life after a reload, only to turn around about 2 minutes later.

/the fact remains, people who have 0 downtime at work are often the sort that are asking their clients about the option to super size.

BumpInTheNight: /the fact remains, people who have 0 downtime at work are often the sort that are asking their clients about the option to super size.

For only 50 cents more, you can super size your router! Also, you might want to stop with the intentionally obtuse thing. It's unbecoming.