Re: Internet Office Abuse
It's sort of winked at where I work, which ususally works if it's slow, but Internet useage can be a real PIA sometimes. Case in point: we have a job that we don't print here, though we do set it up, putting in the ads, etc.... My department's been told to put it on FTP by 5pm Friday. Well, we have to print it to PDF on a certain computer here because that's how it was set up--brilliant, no--but after I put in all the ads, etc... my coworker who's SUPPOSED to be printing the pages is not, because the second she walked in at 4pm, she sat dpwn in front of her computer (the one that is set up for this very specific job)... went onto the Internet and MySpace. Sometimes the job isn't put onto FTP until an HOUR after I have done "my part", meaning the job can be well over an hour past deadline, just because my idiot of a co-worker couldn't be bothered to turn away from her MySpace account. (Complaining to the boss won't work, she's young and attractive and all the guys including my boss seem to gravitate to her, yup, they got what they paid for, when they hired her, that's for sure.) I always tell people that a good attitude can make up for a lot of other qualities. You can't replace a good work ethic, and abusing the Internet is one way of ripping off your boss, I think so anyway.