Our office uses Sonicwall and blocks adult sites as well as social sites. This is considered a social site by our firewall. The way I get around it is go to Google, type in the word Fiero, see the link for the Pennocks Fiero Forum Main Page. I then click on it and I'm in. Unfortunately, you may have tougher network settings though.
I'm not going to use a proxy. The internet cops at our work consider that "circumventing the system". It's a firing offense. They don't screw around.
OTOH, I can take my netbook (or smartphone) to work and connect to the wireless that is provided for us, and surf whatever I want. They just want to keep potentially harmful traffic off of our corporate network.
I didn't say that I didn't understand. Just that I didn't like it.
I'm not going to use a proxy. The internet cops at our work consider that "circumventing the system". It's a firing offense. They don't screw around.
OTOH, I can take my netbook (or smartphone) to work and connect to the wireless that is provided for us, and surf whatever I want. They just want to keep potentially harmful traffic off of our corporate network.
I didn't say that I didn't understand. Just that I didn't like it.
As if all that malicious traffic can't get on the network through the wi-fi.... I never connect my personal devices to my corporate wi-fi...gives them the right to search and seize it if they suspect it has caused a problem. I just burn up my 4G bandwidth...which is unlimited since I'm on Sprint.
Every job I ever worked, I never had time to screw around on the internet... because I worked. Weird concept. Never understood why some have this leisure at their "job" anyway.
Yeah, they must have changed something here at work, or on Facebooks side. The like button also turns into a big white page saying the content I'm trying to view is blocked. The weird thing is the white page goes away after a minute, and I'm left without a "like" button. Minor inconvenience.
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Originally posted by Lambo nut:
Every job I ever worked, I never had time to screw around on the internet... because I worked. Weird concept. Never understood why some have this leisure at their "job" anyway.
Kevin
There's not a whole lot for a teller to be doing in between customers here at the bank I work at. I don't think that is too hard to understand for most people, ymmv.
Every job I ever worked, I never had time to screw around on the internet... because I worked. Weird concept. Never understood why some have this leisure at their "job" anyway.
Kevin
Well Kevin in some jobs such as mine..my job is like 24 hours a day 7 days a week on call. I am Network/Communications Guru...so I am hired for my mind. Some days I spend all day on the phone consulting...but there is a lot of gaps of my participation on these long calls...since the projects involve many other engineers as well. This gives me plenty of time to surf and post. Now some people may say that isnt fair, but its all a trade off. I am on call all the time and work a lot more than 60 hours a in a single week most weeks.
Hope that sheds a different aspect to at least consider.
Every job I ever worked, I never had time to screw around on the internet... because I worked. Weird concept. Never understood why some have this leisure at their "job" anyway.
I watch the programmers' programs run. About 1200 of them every night. That's all I do, well, almost. I have a lot of time to surf the Net, and they let me, as long as I don't miss anything that goes wrong.
As if all that malicious traffic can't get on the network through the wi-fi.... I never connect my personal devices to my corporate wi-fi...gives them the right to search and seize it if they suspect it has caused a problem. I just burn up my 4G bandwidth...which is unlimited since I'm on Sprint.
It's firewalled to a fare-thee-well. Designed and designated specifically for our personal use. Aside from that, I wouldn't ever surf anywhere on it that I wouldn't on my work PC (except for my personal email, which is also blocked on the corporate network.)
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Originally posted by Lambo nut:
Every job I ever worked, I never had time to screw around on the internet... because I worked. Weird concept. Never understood why some have this leisure at their "job" anyway.
I monitor AMI towers, and SCADA devices for "on line" status. I also back up other folks on microwave radios and fiber optics "stuff", if they get really busy. As long as everything is online that should be, I am pretty much free to do what I want (Surf. Read. Grab a cup of coffee. Whatever.) as long as I pay attention. Having said that, those periods are usually fairly short-lived. I seldom get enough time to finish reading an entire forum thread or news article on the web, without stopping to chase something. (We eat meals at our consoles, too. Much preferred to taking a designated lunch period and then working that much longer.) And some days are like drinking from a fire hose. I don't do any surfing at all. It all goes with the territory.
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I monitor AMI towers, and SCADA devices for "on line" status. I also back up other folks on microwave radios and fiber optics "stuff", if they get really busy. As long as everything is online that should be, I am pretty much free to do what I want (Surf. Read. Grab a cup of coffee. Whatever.) as long as I pay attention. Having said that, those periods are usually fairly short-lived. I seldom get enough time to finish reading an entire forum thread or news article on the web, without stopping to chase something. (We eat meals at our consoles, too. Much preferred to taking a designated lunch period and then working that much longer.) And some days are like drinking from a fire hose. I don't do any surfing at all. It all goes with the territory.
Yeah corporate wi-fi is there for a reason, but I don't want to give big brother access to my personal devices.
And believe it or not, the internet has useful purposes! Everything is going to the cloud so without internet there is no access to all of our data. Doesn't give anyone free reign to surf Facebook and Youtube, but our organization (like everyone's) has a facebook and Youtube page and is constantly posting stuff there and asking us to check it out. So we are compelled to use social media as a part of our jobs.
