New Job

[Davian93]

Started my new job today...Net access restricted pretty much as I can only get on for personal use a few minutes a day.

Just wanted to say hi!

Davian
Lazy Gov't Employee

[Gilshalos Sedai]

Congrats on the new job! Boo that they restrict you!

And I'm really irked they restrict Bryan.

[jason wolfbrother]

our tax dollars at work ;) thx Dav :p :cool:

[Brita]

Woohoo! Exciting times! Good luck with the job. Hopefully as you settle in you'll be able to get a little more time online.

[Sarevok]

Congrats Dav :D

But a pity about the internet access :(

[irerancincpkc]

Congrats Dav! Have fun! :D

[Davian93]

I think I'll be able to get regular access during work hours in about 3-4 months. I'll be doing job specific training for the next 2 months and being held by the hand for another month or so after that but once I get settled in things will go back to normal. Lots of fun with a first day as always and Bryan and Pops will understand the joys of being a gov't puke. :)

[Zaela Sedai]

congrats again Dav :)

[pops taer]

Glad you got the job, Dav. Just be careful with the Net time. We had some Electronics Technicians,(work on our sorting machines, letter, magazine and package), get fired for excessive net time. Possibly some restriction everywhere in gov't work. None of these guys were surfing inappropriate web sites, either.

Anyhow....good luck and make us proud.....

[Ishara]

Um, yeah...that restriction? It's called time theft. ;)

[Gilshalos Sedai]

Not really, Ishara. Bryan can't even look online during his lunch period.

[Ishara]

Well yeah. The government - or any employer actually - doesn't pay you to browse the internet, even on your "downtime" (which is still their time).

An employer doesn't purchase computers and internet access for their employees to use it to do anything other than purely work-related things.

We are all (or at least most of us are) stealing time and inappropriately using the resources of our employers when we're here at Theoryland.

[Brita]

~~~hangs my head in shame~~~

[Gilshalos Sedai]

Nope, my employer requires I get into the office early and often stay late and work through lunch.

I don't get compensated for such time, because I'm salary. What time I do spend on the net, I figure is a perk or payback for that time. ;)

[Frenzy]

Your lunch break is unpaid time, so it's technically yours. You can do with it whatever you want, as long as you show back up to work on time and in working function. which, at my job (and most government jobs), means no drinking. My work doesn't allow personal web browsing, because it's use of City property for personal gain. As if me sitting in an air-conditioned lunchroom isn't using City property for personal gain. It's idiotic. And fortunately it's pretty unenforced. I just hope that bastard in Planning stops running his three online businesses from his work computer, or he'll spoil it for the rest of us.

oh, and congrats Davian. :)

[Ishara]

Nope, my employer requires I get into the office early and often stay late and work through lunch.

I don't get compensated for such time, because I'm salary. What time I do spend on the net, I figure is a perk or payback for that time. ;)

Right. Exactly. You're using resources that aren't yours to do things that aren't work related.

I mean never mind the fact that we'd all be stark raving mad if we didn't - I'm just trying to explain the "restrictions."

[Goldeneyes]

congrats on the new job! I started a 2 week web class Monday. I happen to be sitting next to what i'd call an interesting character. To give you an example of interesting, she just said out loud, to nobody in particular, "my stomach is being bad". Can you say didn't need to know that?

[Zaela Sedai]

You could always call the Dept of Labor on them Gil...since making you do that is against the law even if you are salary...but then you may not keep your job, lol.

[Gilshalos Sedai]

Nah, I'll just slack off to make up the time. ;)