Get back to Work!

Poll Poll Have you ever deliberately viewed pron at work?

  • Yes

    Votes: 8 33.3%

  • No

    Votes: 12 50.0%

  • Of course not! (wink, wink)

    Votes: 3 12.5%

  • I won't any more!

    Votes: 1 4.2%
  • Total voters
    24
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rabman5

Senior member
 Orchard Lake, MI
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From the magazine issue dated Dec 8, 2008

The Tangled Web of Porn In the Office
Anna Kuchment and Karen Springen

Jenna Jameson now has a 9-to-5 job. Fully one quarter of employees who use the Internet visit porn sites during the workday, according to October figures from Nielsen Online; that's up from 23 percent a year ago. And hits are highest during office hours than at any other time of day, reports M. J. McMahon, publisher of AVN Online magazine, which tracks the adult video industry.

What's driving workers to get their kicks on company time? It's one more thing we can pin on the slow economy. "People are looking for an escape," says Steve Hirsch, CEO of Vivid Entertainment Group, an adult online-video provider. And rightly or wrongly, they think their bosses are too busy to notice, says Dawn Adams, CEO of Wisconsin consulting firm HResults. "Managers are dealing with so many issues right now," she says, "that sometimes people are able to hide out and no one knows what they're doing." AVN's McMahon attributes the rise in workplace porn to the proliferation of free Web sites, such as xtube.com, that allow users to quickly log on and off. But a larger factor is the evolving sense—not universally shared—that porn is no big deal. "You're looking at a younger consumer who has grown up with pornography being out there in the pop culture," McMahon says.

Some can't seem to stay away from it. Earlier this year, nine Washington, D.C., city employees—including at least one from Child and Family Services—were fired for viewing porn sites thousands of times while on the job. The worst offender reportedly logged an average of one hit every 2.5 minutes.

The threat to companies isn't just the lost hours of productivity and the risk of sexual-harassment lawsuits. Adult sites also expose computers to viruses, adware and spyware—though such ills can serve as smoking guns. At her last job, Adams fired an executive for spending hours a day on adult sites. "His computer was always crashing," she says. "That's how we found out."

URL: http://www.newsweek.com/id/171279
 
Nope but we do have to do a lot of image searches for cars and you often find images you don't want to :?
Elise instead of Lotus Elise is a pretty bad one.
 
I'd never look at porn at work. I mean why get myself excited when I can't do anything about it?
I'd rather just send sexy comments/e-mail to a girlfriend and hope at the end of the day I get a return on my investment.
 
No...never and most are block by our internet policies settings anyway even including "youtube"... :cry:
However, I am the individual that approved our internet policy settings and I accepted these restrictions based on the recommendations of our IP consultant so I really only have myself to blame... :P
 
Guess, I am the only one that has intentionally viewed porn from work :lol: :lol: Guess it is much easier to do when you are the network admin :wink:
 
Ditto that ovrkll, i'm the network engineer and in charge of the surf control boxes, so I have to test don't i? Last time I was checking, one of our Indian Oracle guys walked in, saw what was on my monitor and walked out. Stupid filter likes to stop working on occassion, so i check once a day.
 
We used to use Surf Control on our network but it kept stumbling with the amount of traffic we had heading out to the internet. Newest beast we are presently installing is called Barracuda and it is extremely efficient as not only intercepting any flagged internet content but also preparing reports for our HR folks who can see exactly who looked at what and how many times a day. Since it is fully integrated with our Active Directory servers all web traffic gets fully monitored in terms of who was logged into any computer on our network when it was accessing external web sites.
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If you like getting a paycheck you had better not even try to peruse NSFW websites unless the material is very well concealed in terms of its origin or content when this type of technology is integrated into your network infrastructure. There aren't a lot of employers who do not have web access policies in place these days so it's pretty hard to claim this level of "Big Brother" is any kind of invasion of privacy any more. At your home yes it would be entirely unacceptable for your own network connection but on your employer's network/computers you are definitely taking your chances.
:chophead:

As ovrkll and Yal have pointed out it does help if you are one of the network admins and know exactly how this stuff works and where it is installed in the net :thumbsup:
 
And of course, Surfcontrol allows me to not record my trips to the one site i use for test. I know when surfcontrol is getting overloaded as most http/https access goes away but everything else works. Surfcontrol passby works, but when it works with the juniper is when it tends to puke. Sad, they used to be about 2 miles from me so that I could lunch with my reps.

I've been talking to Barracuda about several of their boxes as well as Fortinet as my Juniper firewalls are getting rather dated.
 
Online porn bores me. We use an ethernet card on our simulators that is made by the Men company in Germany. We often ask unsuspecting colleagues to check out information on their web site (men.com) instead of their real site (men.de). :lol: :lol: Very immature for grown up adults. :oops:
 
Yal said:
And of course, Surfcontrol allows me to not record my trips to the one site i use for test. I know when surfcontrol is getting overloaded as most http/https access goes away but everything else works. Surfcontrol passby works, but when it works with the juniper is when it tends to puke. Sad, they used to be about 2 miles from me so that I could lunch with my reps.

I've been talking to Barracuda about several of their boxes as well as Fortinet as my Juniper firewalls are getting rather dated.
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Make sure you connect the Barracuda up via vlans on a switch instead of a pure physical connection like they suggest. We have already seen enough issues with their hardware to know that you should never trust this device to be able to stand inline between your network hardware nodes. It also acts as an address proxy for everything behind it so all of our firewall rules got bypassed once all of our traffic came out of the Barracuda and into one of our firewalls with a single IP address. Their techs were bewildered when we told them we needed to preserve the source addresses for our outbound firewall rules. Sadly someone bought this box and handed it over to the netadmin group and said "make it work" so we haven't been able to make useful choices about better alternatives before being stuck with this.
 
AlanL said:
Sadly someone bought this box and handed it over to the netadmin group and said "make it work" so we haven't been able to make useful choices about better alternatives before being stuck with this.
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:headbang: :headbang: Gotta love the bean counters!!! :x
 
20ducks said:
They kinda look alike too. Hmmmmm.......separated at birth perhaps?
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You could be right :o but which one was put in the bucket.



Joe_the_Plumber said:
I whish I could. I have to settle for the board houswives.
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board or desperate housewives :wink:
 
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