Well they finally made it suck worse....

[09CTSV]

Big brother is always watching where and what we do at work. I've had to put the call into the help line to get some sites I needed for work unblocked. By the time they got around to it I'd found other sites and was able to get the information and order the parts I needed. Our IT group tells everyone it is to conserve bandwith yet they stream the hell out of propaganda over the net at us whenever we are on our homepage.
UGH.

[vettex2]

Originally Posted by Iron Chef

I think you may have missed my point. Jesse and Jim decided to go on this work-safe/family friendly crusade. All this heavy handed moderation and throwing people off the Forum because they're afraid THEIR VENDORS MAY LOSE BUSINESS...and it really doesn't matter. A company will or will not turn off access to the forum no matter what those two fools do to prevent it. The whole family friendly nonsense is Jesse's way of putting his fundamentalist Christian values into the forum. Parents will or will not keep an eye on their kids internet activities. Contrary to what they may believe, people really don't sit there and scrutinize Corvette Forum and walk away saying "Gee...what a lovely environment!" They just don't care that much. So my point is that they RUINED what was fun about CF and it was all unnecessary.

I gotta fuggin agree

Originally Posted by Iron Chef

As far as spending time on the internet at work is concerned, if you have an open system, it's going to happen. I wouldn't want my employees to spend their entire day online. On the other hand, I wouldn't want them to feel so oppressed that they were afraid to check their personal Email. The smart employer finds a way to strike a balance, and generally speaking, the smart employee will appreciate that and do a good job. At least that's how I always was.
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w/dat too !

[Defib1961]

Originally Posted by Iron Chef

The smart employer finds a way to strike a balance, and generally speaking, the smart employee will appreciate that and do a good job. At least that's how I always was.

You have to remember one thing Mike, you were taught respect. In today's society a large number of people just want to see how far they can push things. If they get caught, everyone pays and the guilty always have an excuse. The little freak I work with got caught emailing porn videos to a county commissioner's daughter from his work email. At one time we had a total of 6 websites we could go to. I had to BEG to get them to open up The Barn.

[oahuyahoo]

Originally Posted by defib1961

you have to remember one thing mike, you were taught respect. In today's society a large number of people just want to see how far they can push things. If they get caught, everyone pays and the guilty always have an excuse.

nailed it right there

[Iron Chef]

Originally Posted by oahuyahoo

The moderators major complaint is cleaning up all of the time, that's what you have to expect when you have a forum, there will be some of that no matter what.

That's such a bunch of BS too...clearly Pewter and Grumpy have a lot of free time...100,000 plus posts...what else are they going to do?

Originally Posted by oahuyahoo

Part of their "work safe" strategy is keeping folks like me and a bunch of others who really haven't done anything off the forum.

Amen to that. Favorites are played.

[Y2Kvert4me]

Originally Posted by Iron Chef

Looks like Jim and Jesse's efforts to have a "work safe forum" are doing really well.

In the grand scheme of things, it is work safe. And so is this one.

There is a tremendous difference between companies using automated filtering software to auto-block any site found to be dangerous, malicious, profane, pornographic, etc, and the bored IT guy reviewing web history on specific machines.

The point being, seeing a machine that's often visiting sites like "thevettebarn", or "corvetteforum" may be all the info needed for someone to decide to block them. Actual content irrelevant.

Just because any site is "work safe", doesn't mean your employer agrees it's making the best use of your time at work.

[Iron Chef]

Originally Posted by Y2Kvert4me

Just because any site is "work safe", doesn't mean your employer agrees it's making the best use of your time at work.

Too bad they hasn't figured that out.