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I'm going to get FIRED!

I'm going to get FIRED!

for spending time on these forums when I should be working!

As I spend my employer's valuable time on his valuable equipment reading through these posts, sometimes when I should be working, I think to myself that I am going to get in a heap of trouble if I am ever caught. I prefer to blame my employer. I am on a salary, so I am basically chained to my desk all day, with the privilege to stay as long as I want. My workload is tends to be very light per week, with spurts of too much to do (we could give the Vogons bureaucracy lessons). My "office" is a 7 foot x 15 foot closet, with a LAN drop and a telephone, and spartan office furniture. It's in a corner of a warehouse with no ventilation or door knob (just a dead bolt). My supervisor never checks on me (Tsk, Tsk, I know I would check on me). So I fill the empty hours reading over the insightful suggestions of other players, the constructive help of the Stardock staff (do they ever miss anything?), and the loads of humour that can be found in these forums.
Wouldn't it be cool to get paid to monitor and post on these forums? Then again it it was your job it might not be.
The good thing about posting is that you look really busy when you are typing. And since my monitor faces away from people entering my office I always say, "Please sit down. Let me wrap this up it is really important." If the guy in my chair right now only knew."
So here's what I want to know do you ever play at internet truancy while you are at work, school or know you shouldn't be? How do you get away with it? And do you Stardock guys ever do it?

Let's have fun!!!!  
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Reply #26 Top

90% of all my surfing, downloading, etc.. is done at work.


What do I have employees for if I can't delegate my work to them? That's efficient management!

"I'd love to do these 15 employee reviews, but I'm busy posting. Have them done by Monday, will you?"

It's good to be the king!


Poor Oz! You are sadly behind the times. You need to take it to the next level!

At my workplace, the management makes you write your own review and then reviews your review of yourself! (say that five times fast!) Although they do have to add comments.

I have successfully defeated this technique of work shuffling though. I have kept all of my previous reviews and just say the same thing with different words every year and an updated example. Now if only the reviews affected my pay in some way....

Reply #27 Top
I wonder how that goes.

Interviewer you: "Hello, please sit down"

You: "Oh, why thank me"

IY: "Well, lets start things, how do you feel about me?"

You: "Why would I feel anything about you?"

IY: "I meant how do you feel about yourself, what are you good qualities?"

You: "Well I have been a hard worker at this company and I hope that this excelent review will get me a promotion"

IY: "Yea right... if they knew what you really did, youd be happy still having a job"

You: "No, I think they would be proud that I am using the companies resources for such a noble cause".

And on the topic of school I found this a short while ago, quite funny.
http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1730017

Remember kids, B is the new C.
Reply #28 Top
Being the guy who sets the rules and enforces them on how the internet is used does have its perks...Only rule, don't spend all day browsing porn!


You mean to tell me there is porn on the internet!

I would never have known!!

Reply #29 Top
LOL!!   

"There were two possible answer choices: A (True) and B (False). You chose C for all 100 questions"
Reply #30 Top
I am glad you liked it
Reply #31 Top
At my workplace, the management makes you write your own review and then reviews your review of yourself! (say that five times fast!) Although they do have to add comments.


Purge, you are my new hero!   
Reply #32 Top
I have been caught at work several times. The end result is that I've had a few warnings, so I don't check forums much. It's worse because the government department I work for has blocked video game sites and private email, so there's not much I can look at now.
Reply #33 Top
I goof off at work too and browse the net. My boss would get mad except...oh yeah I am the boss.
Reply #34 Top
Well, actually, as the senior systems operations watch officer at my "enterprise", as long as our several networks are running smoothly, (ahem) YOU GUYS are paying for my forum browsing.
Keep it clean though, or I will have to block you...er...us.

drrider
Reply #35 Top
I think it's amusing how many GC II players seem to have IT ties. Based on what I have seen over months, it's a very very high number.
Reply #36 Top
Hmmm... I am tempted to make some assumptions

So playing GCII puts you on a higher payroll, in general... It must be all those research and economics resources that we keep mining...


Of course, of course
Reply #37 Top
We don't have computers at my work, sigh.
Here's why:

Coworker: Hey you have really good Internet at home right?
Me: Yep
Coworker: Well would you mind looking something up for me cause I can't find anything on mine!
Reply #38 Top
It's worse because the government department I work for has blocked video game sites and private email, so there's not much I can look at now.


NOOOOOO!!!!  
Reply #40 Top
No. The folks who do Net Admin us are on a separate contract. There's limitations on what we can view, certain types of sites are off limits and most off limit sites are blocked anyway. We sign a notice of usage understanding. Nobody in our Net Admin cares about innocent stuff like this.

   Besides, like I said before, it's all "Vogon bureaucracy" around here. It would probably take 20 years to investigate what I viewed today, and another 20 to fire me.