Do you get paid to hang out at the TFP?
 

I'm wondering how many of us actually can visit this website during work or at your job? Would you get fired if you did? Do you work in a place that doesn't care what you do on-line?

I know I can't visit this board at work. Even the safe for work areas.

about 50% of the time i´m paid to post here. there are no controls that i´m aware of, using work´s computer to look up porn seems to have no consequence. i´ve actually been on tfp in front of my boss who really didn´t care. his attitude was that the job is getting done.

I check in a few times a day from work and then again later at home. Management, including me, takes a relatively open-minded approach to this kind of thing, and also other time related priveledges, as long as it's not abused. If I notice somebody in my department spending too much time online or on the phone, I'll tell them to rein it in or it'll ruin it for everybody. It's easier for our management to allow this since our business is going very well and has been for many years, so whatever we're doing seems to work. We're a small company and we're fortunate to have more liberties in work than most people. It's no wonder that most people are very happy working here and appreciate "how good we have it".

I do more work than anyone else, and I still have time for TFP. It's never been an issue.

The advantages of working out in the field is that unless I have to check email or pull a file off the company network, all of my surfing happens off the VPN. The other advantage is that with no desk, I have no boss to look over my shoulder.

Of course that doesn't mean I can surf the NWS stuff, that's just asking for trouble that I don't need.

Nope, websense blocks everything. Blocks out half the stuff actually pertinent to what I do for that matter. What REALLY pisses me off is that even on normal sites, it picks and chooses what images and video it allows posted, and won't even rex them out, so you have no clue if anything is supposed to be there or not.

i'm in and out during the day, not for any particular reason beyond being busy.
with stupid shit, mostly.
capitalism is stupid.
that's what i've learned.

I can browse TFP while at work, I just have to minimize it if a boss comes by. Luckily, my back is no longer to the door, meaning my computer monitor is not visible until you actually come in to my office. I have to be careful of my 2 office mates though. I am not sure if they would tattle on me or not. (hehe, that sounds so childish. but it's true) Better safe than sorry, I cannot afford to be fired.

I rarely take my computer along with me when I go to work, except for the one day a week I nanny. I take it out for an hour at the coffeeshop while the kid plays in an indoor play area nearby, and I do browse TFP during that time.

I don't. My work has a policy of no internet for anything not work related. It is not regularly enforced, but a couple of years ago three people in my office were fired for inappropriate use of work computers. I don't think that was the real reason they were fired, but why take a chance?

im on Halxs' payroll.

he actually pays me out of all the donations that you guys give. why do you think we had no money for the new server that crashed a few months back?

I don't have internet at work.

My employer is the county, and before that the State of California. Both times they would monitor all traffic on every computer. Hell, at the fire station I work at now, we can only visit "Fire related" sites. They take random screengrabs every hour to use as evidence against us. Luckily, we use routers and bring our own laptops :D

I can't check in at work because we have no computers, lol!

I spend more time during my lunch hour on TFP than at any other time during the work day. That being said, I do come and take peeks regularly during the day also. It's an obsession, what can I say? :p I never let it get in the way of my work.

The thing is, I work hard in my job and I am very good at what I do. My boss respects me and recognizes my good work. He has once said to me, that as long as I get my job done well, how he wants it, I don't have to worry about occasionally needing to leave early for personal reasons - which I rarely, if ever, do. He has said to me, if you ever quit, I hope you will still collaborate with me on occasion. So I feel he is appreciative of me. I think the main thing is that you get your work done and well done. If you do that, I don't see why anyone has to get on your back for taking a break in a stressful day to relax a minute. It's as natural to me as checking my emails.

I get on well with all my co-workers and I know we all do other stuff online in the day apart from the work. I don't hold it against anyone as long as they are doing a good job.

I only wish I could have my friend's job - she works at a telecommunications company and the only requirement she has is that she get her work done and comes in at the same time every day. If her work for the day is done, she can leave halfway through the day and it's not even an issue. As long as she does a great job, mandatory work hours are not required. Which in a way, makes sense (depending on the job at hand). Say you have two employees - one works well and is fast at completing tasks. The other does so-so work and is far slower. Is it fair that they earn the same and have to work the same hours? Employee A will always be doing more work but getting paid the same as shitty employee B. If you trust your staff and give them a little power over their own work, they will be happier for it and more appreciative of you in the long-run.

I used to spend an inordinate amount of time online during the day...

When I first started this new job I didn't surf tfp at all during work hours. Now that I've been here for a few years, I check it out a few times during the day depending on my current workload.

I pretty much always am on when I'm working. Right now I'm just freelancing so it's a bit different, but I've always been 'paid' to surf here.

Yep, but now I'm limited to my handheld since we installed websense. That said, I multitask a LOT.

D) I have no job

My employer has crap set up everywhere. They track every site we visit and review it regularly. There is also software in place to block anything the tech dept wants. When we first got the internet, we had to provide them with a list of every site we wanted to visit so they could enter it as an allowed site. This quickly backfired because we couldn't navagate the site once we got there because each possible link and page needed to be entered also. They eventually got a little smarter and decided to open it up to almost everything and punish the violators instead.

My job has a lot of up and down times. I can go hours without having anything to do then work my ass off for while. I have some collateral duties but they only take about an hour to complete each night. Our former computer guy tried to get his and my boss to allow us to access nearly everything (except porn) but they wouldn't go for it.

I work from home, too, so I'm on at all hours. At this particular moment, I'm sitting on the couch in my undies, watching FOX, answering work email and browsing TFP.

I used to be able to do a lot of things at work. Ever since they've hired real computer people instead of the OJT folks they used to have, computer time has really taken a hit. Oh well.:sad:

got a job opening by any chance?