I'm going to get FIRED!

for spending time on these forums when I should be working!

As I spend my employer's valuable time on his valuable equipment reading through these posts, sometimes when I should be working, I think to myself that I am going to get in a heap of trouble if I am ever caught. I prefer to blame my employer. I am on a salary, so I am basically chained to my desk all day, with the privilege to stay as long as I want. My workload is tends to be very light per week, with spurts of too much to do (we could give the Vogons bureaucracy lessons). My "office" is a 7 foot x 15 foot closet, with a LAN drop and a telephone, and spartan office furniture. It's in a corner of a warehouse with no ventilation or door knob (just a dead bolt). My supervisor never checks on me (Tsk, Tsk, I know I would check on me). So I fill the empty hours reading over the insightful suggestions of other players, the constructive help of the Stardock staff (do they ever miss anything?), and the loads of humour that can be found in these forums.
Wouldn't it be cool to get paid to monitor and post on these forums? Then again it it was your job it might not be.
The good thing about posting is that you look really busy when you are typing. And since my monitor faces away from people entering my office I always say, "Please sit down. Let me wrap this up it is really important." If the guy in my chair right now only knew."
So here's what I want to know do you ever play at internet truancy while you are at work, school or know you shouldn't be? How do you get away with it? And do you Stardock guys ever do it?

Let's have fun!!!!  
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The good thing about posting is that you look really busy when you are typing. And since my monitor faces away from people entering my office I always say, "Please sit down. Let me wrap this up it is really important." If the guy in my chair right now only knew.

Me thinks this is one hell of an idea!

Not sure if you'll get many open comments from Stardock guys though. Their "supervisor" might not be far away and could sentence them to be Drengin food...
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Hell yes I am using my employer's hi speed internet access to peruse these forums daily. It is rare that I am on here from home, but if I am it's during the weekend. So every time you see me post something on here you can pretty much be assured that I am 'at work'.
Now if only I could convince them to upgrade our severely lacking PC's maybe I could actually play at work too!
Am I worried about getting fired? Not really as my dept. manager pretty much looks at porn online all day so... Besides, I was looking for a job when I got this one so fire away if necessary... I've got enough dirt on the company that 'fun-enjoyment' would not be fought and if it was, I would win hands down. Actually, this would be a good thing as I would get 26 weeks of wages that amount to roughly what I bring home now, non-taxed of course, AND I would have an 'unfettered' half a year's worth of play time while the wife trudges off to work.
See what you went and did with this thread... now you have me thinking!
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"Please sit down. Let me wrap this up it is really important." If the guy in my chair right now only knew."


"Hmmm... This chair is not at all comfortable. Let me check Galciv2 forums on my PDA till this nice person finishes with his important job. Poor chap, he seems to working so hard!"


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Wha?...I'm not the only one logging on from work?

My office is more accessible and people tend to walk right in and peek at my screen. Luckily, I can make up an excuse like, "It's the Galactic Civ website". Hmm...Maybe I should come up with something better.

Being salaried and all, they give me a lot of slack as long as the job gets done. The term "boss" doesn't mean as much here as it probably does in most companies anyway. We work in more of a peer environment, with tasks spread out to whomever it fits best.

Not a bad setup if you ask me.
Reply #5 Top
I read and post on the forums here while I'm working too! Oh wait...
Reply #6 Top
Being the guy who sets the rules and enforces them on how the internet is used does have its perks...Only rule, don't spend all day browsing porn!
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Hi!
Only rule, don't spend all day browsing porn!

Not browsing while at lunch-break, but the rest of the day is then OK?

BR, Iztok
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Hi!
Only rule, don't spend all day browsing porn!

Not browsing while at lunch-break, but the rest of the day is then OK?

BR, Iztok



Yeap! From my perspective. I do track all corporate internet traffic, but it is for the purpose of securing our systems. The rest is between the employee and their manager. Frankly, the internet is so much a part of our business that nobody cares.

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hahaha too funny. yeah, me too. i'm online playing all day. i'm usually working as well. and my monitor doesn't even face away from my door. in fact, i haven't even set up internet at home on my PC since moving almost 3 months ago. i get enough online boredom-killing at work.
Reply #10 Top
I have billable hours, but am basically my own boss. But I cruise by the forums while in my office, or like now, on my laptop while driving between locations. I just don't bill clients for that time. Could I be more productive doing something else? Maybe. It's ok though, the boss knows what I'm up to, and isn't inclined to fire me

- Edit: He IS thinking about forcing me into early retirement though. Ha ha ha ho hum. I kill me.

Take care out there.
Reply #11 Top
And since my monitor faces away from people entering my office


A key issue when planning your work area! Besides, sometimes posting on the forums keeps me from killing my employees.
Reply #12 Top
Tsk tsk tsk.

What sort of an example are you setting for the younger players here
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LOL
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What sort of an example are you setting for the younger players here


Good multi-tasking skills! And that if you work smart, not hard, you can dramatically reduce your workload!

Seriously, we do twenty to thirty times the traffic compared to what I inherited three and a half years ago and my workload is about a third of what it used to be since I have completely redesigned the network over the same time frame (I deal with all the networking gear)....Not to mention more stable/redundant etc. And while it easy to maintain if you know what you are doing, it is beyond the average network person.

Smart, not hard!
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I wonder if I could pull this off at school...it IS work right?   
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I wonder if I could pull this off at school...it IS work right?


Probably not, but hey its not like you cant try

Personally, I have been perfecting my slacking skills for the past two years, now that it is time to plan for college I am becoming a hard worker again.

Someone save me

Good multi-tasking skills! And that if you work smart, not hard, you can dramatically reduce your workload!


Wise words, I will be sure to remember them.
Reply #17 Top
  lot's and lot's of side splitting LOL. All this stuff is rich. I had better keep it down or they'll think I'm crazy.  
Reply #18 Top
If your employer allows you to be overworked at certain times, then they also have to put up with you not doing much at other times.
Reply #19 Top
90% of all my surfing, downloading, etc.. is done at work.
How do I get away with it? I'm the LAN Admin for the company, I have the keys to kingdom, as it were
Reply #20 Top
Related link:

"Smashing the Clock" from Business Week

Summary: Best Buy's management corps is rethinking the whole 'chained to the desk' thing with more support for telecommuting and 'working on the golf course', so to speak. Long article, but a good read for those who're interested in the New Thing in Human Resources.
Reply #21 Top
90% of all my surfing, downloading, etc.. is done at work.


What do I have employees for if I can't delegate my work to them? That's efficient management!

"I'd love to do these 15 employee reviews, but I'm busy posting. Have them done by Monday, will you?"

It's good to be the king!
Reply #22 Top
Thank god I am paid to review these forums.
Reply #23 Top
pull this off at school


At the time this reply went up, I'm at school!  
Reply #24 Top
pull this off at school


At the time this reply went up, I'm at school!  
Reply #25 Top
sorry about it going up twice