Like nearly every other big office in this world, in my office everyone has internet access. It's mighty handy. I check my stock portfolio, read journals, and do some miscellaneous surfing. It's just a little entertainment to fill slower moments. Not that I have hours a day to surf mind you, but as part of my morning routine, along with my morning coffee, I check my office e-mail, check my home e-mail, read a few journals, check my stocks, and then get on with my business.
Then as the day progresses I might check back to some journals who didn't update in the a.m., keep an eye on my $$$, and whatever else (read shop here).
All that came to a grinding halt yesterday afternoon.
My company uses Websense to limit office internet access. Used to be you would get the evil "this content is filtered" message if you tried to play games, gamble, or look at porn. With the "this content is filtered" message it would give you the category that it falls under: gaming, gambling, sex, etc. I don't have issues with these things being filtered in the workplace. (Because frankly, when looking at porn I prefer to be at home anyway.)
But apparently someone has been very busy these last couple of days because when I went to check my stock portfolio yesterday afternoon and found that it was filtered because it applies to financial data and services.
Beth and Shelley are rated as entertainment and therefore unavailable (ladies, you should be so very proud).
And Jill isn't allowed because apparently she's all about sex (go you!).
Yesterday Maggie was filtered because of sex too, but today I could get in there, so she's neither entertaining or sexy anymore, sorry honey.
And today I discover there's a new little wrinkle. With the exception of Jill (you little sex kitten) you can now go to these sites but you have to go through an additional step and it's considered "quota time" of which you have 60 minutes a day, used in 10 minute increments.
This just bites so I'm using precious work time to update my blog.
And don't feel bad Maggie, apparently I'm neither sexy or entertaining because I can still get into my journal.
Posted by beth at August 21, 2003 09:37 AMI think you're sexy and entertaining. Simultaneously, even.
Posted by: Chuck at August 21, 2003 02:50 PM