Does your work Block or Filter Scubaboard?

[JohnW]

I'm the my company's IT Guy, Janitor, Sidewalk cleaner, CEO...Etc. We endorse that all employees (me) spend at least 2 hour per workday on SB. This is Manditory, look...right here in my terms of employment .

 

[mike_s]

The main reason why companies install filters is to help production. The more people are surfing the internet at work the less work they are getting done.

WHile that is true. Companies block/filter their internet connections for other reasons too.

such as:
* reduction of bandwidth (cost savings)
* reduce introduction of external viruses through blocking websites known for such.
* blocking of chat rooms, myspace.com, or other message boards keeps employees from using company networks to access sites with known underage users, which reduces company liability.
* blocking other illegal activity
* blocking porn to keep harrasing photos off company computers, which reduces liability to litigation from harrassment lawsuits.

stuff like that.

 

[johnny_bravo]

My workplace doesn't block it. I'm the firewall admin

Yay Me!

-J.-

 

[in_cavediver]

I wonder how many of us are in IT?

As for me, I work at a major university (IT/Engineer) so blocking anything web related (port 80, 443) could be seen as curtailing academic freedom. (we do use firewalls though, just not content filters)

 

[johnny_bravo]

I wonder how many of us are in IT?

As for me, I work at a major university (IT/Engineer) so blocking anything web related (port 80, 443) could be seen as curtailing academic freedom. (we do use firewalls though, just not content filters)

Prob a quite a few of us...especially the ones that post during the day because we have an excuse to be on the computer and we are hidden away in dark server room dungeons

-J.-

 

[Carribeandiver]

At my work place I'm just a peon. All's I have access to is a company intranet. Execpt for he national weather service & the NY Times, I have no internet access. So at work, Scub Board (along with most everything else) is off limits.

WOW, that company has mixed up priorities. This is grounds for a strike or change jobs or revolt. How can you work under such extreme conditions?

 

[Crawl79]

If it werent for work I probably would never be on SB. I'm either on my company laptop on the boat I work on (24 hours a day about 8 months of the year) our on my company Blackberry when I'm home surfing SB. Just got a new apartment and don't yet have internet hooked up and not sure I will as I'm only off about 4 months a year and the blackberry works fine most of the time.

 

[CrateCookie]

Every once in a while, a surprise audit is done and you get fussed at for looking at non-work sites with termination threatened.

 

[rawls]

My workplace blocks all message boards...

 

[Jason Ooi]

Is fine for me, everything work great