View Full Version : Has your employer blocked Sheff Forum?
Mine has, by good ole 'Websense'. I would often check SF during my lunch hour, not anymore :mad:
I was on SF replying to a PM, as I hit send, the page transmission was interrupted by a message saying 'you can't send this, this is email blah blah etc - or something to that effect. Then I couldn't get on to SF again - blocked!
It's getting more and more like - 'big brothers watching you' :suspect:
I was also only able to check my O2 email account, now that's blocked along with gmail/hotmail - any email that's not the company's really.
I guess they have the right to do so, just makes lunch time browsing limited to BBC news and 'work related' websites.
bensonhedges 02-05-2009, 16:34 Ours have blocked Facebook and Ebay. It's their perogative I guess.
It's not blocked where i work.......yet! :suspect: :hihi:
How terrible, your employer won't pay you to use Sheffield Forum!
just_words 03-05-2009, 01:58 I might block myself just to see if I mind... prolly would!
alchresearch 03-05-2009, 09:37 It's getting more and more like - 'big brothers watching you' :suspect:
I was also only able to check my O2 email account, now that's blocked along with gmail/hotmail - any email that's not the company's really.
I guess they have the right to do so, just makes lunch time browsing limited to BBC news and 'work related' websites.
Do you do work at home for free? If not, don't do your personal surfing with company equipment. And using a proxy bypass will most likely be a breach of your company's AUP for computer use and give them a good reason to get rid of you.
How terrible, your employer won't pay you to use Sheffield Forum!
Do you get paid for your lunch hour?
Do you get paid for your lunch hour?
my thoughts exactly...:hihi:
I dont get time anymore to use t'internet at work - but most sites are blocked...its only news sites - usually - I can access
WallBuilder 03-05-2009, 13:27 Come off it, how many people during work hours [i.e. whilst they're supposed to be actually working] access the net and it's nothing to do with work?
Maybe some whizz kid should come up with a way of blocking any sites the boss wants to during office hours only and then gives full access at dinner time.
If you Google for the forum then click on Cached then you should be able to view the site if it has been blocked, usually.
just_words 03-05-2009, 14:14 proxy websites popup and disappear all the time, just type in the address you want. But probably best not log into things...
Maybe some whizz kid should come up with a way of blocking any sites the boss wants to during office hours only and then gives full access at dinner time.
That's exactly what we have at work. Shopping and everything blocked until 12, then blocked from 2-5. Facebook and myspace is permanently blocked though.
just_words 03-05-2009, 15:51 Maybe some whizz kid should come up with a way of blocking any sites the boss wants to during office hours only and then gives full access at dinner time.
It's technically easy enough to do...
whatever did workers do during their lunch hours before the tinterweb? :hihi:
No I don't get paid for my lunch hour.
I was more curious/interested if anyone else was blocked from SF. Rather than by-passing the controls - I think as one person said, that would certainly breech the rules and I would be in trouble.
Do you get paid for your lunch hour?
Self Employed / Own Business. Cheers!
Barry Noid 05-05-2009, 11:56 Do you get paid for your lunch hour? Maybe they do not get paid for their lunch hour but they are still using the employers equipment and the connection, so either pay the employer to use the equipment or take your own equipment in to work if sheffield forum is that important to you, furthermore is it not stealing from your employer by using their connection to the internet even with an anonymizer ?? Stealing = gross misconduct and you could get sacked for it...
HarryBustard 05-05-2009, 12:59 On a related tack it's best not to use an employer's e-mail service to communicate with external parties not related to the employer. This is the case even if the employer's policy (if such exists) permits such as employers and even unscrupulous employees with access to such should not be able to monitor your private life. Taking the point further you could be heading for a fall if you express yourself on Facebook inappropriately - as this (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8018329.stm) story illustrates.
Draggletail 05-05-2009, 13:48 If you Google for the forum then click on Cached then you should be able to view the site if it has been blocked, usually.
Worth remembering!
just_words 05-05-2009, 14:09 For websites it could be useful, but with a forum it'd be like reading last weeks newspaper...
fred_notdead 05-05-2009, 17:52 use an anonymizer
No way - all the anonymizers are blocked too :(
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