Last night I went into work, excited to be able to have an hour and a half to myself.. to browse the internet, check my hotmail.. maybe post an entry.. What I usually do when I'm there. However, when I logged onto my pc last night, and tried going to hotmail, I got a window that said it was an unauthorized site, and I couldn't get to it. That happened with every site I tried. I immediately asked a co-worker what the @#$% was going on, and she told me that we no longer have internet access, except for a couple of work related sites that we need in order to perform our jobs.
C'mon! It's not like these people I work with are out there checking out porn sites, or trying to pick up underage kids. We're just checking our other email accounts, maybe reading the paper on line, totally harmless stuff. Not to mention the fact that it's not at all effecting the way we perform our jobs, we're doing them just fine, it's only on down time or on breaks that we may surf the web.
I'm just wondering what they think taking this away from us is going to solve. It's certainly not good for our morale, what should we do when we're just sitting there, and the phones aren't ringing, and we've made every possible phone call we can?? And I hate to complain, but I pretty much have nothing to do now for my 1.5 hours there. I guess I could just enjoy the peace and quiet and stare blankly at my computer screen.. ugh.. oh, and since Christhadasister (my twin) has no computer at home (I know, I know.. they don't even have a microwave!) She won't be able to keep up her blog. Or do anything else on the internet. This could however, be a good thing, and force her to think about getting a computer.. I mean, we're not living in the stone ages ya know?
It's funny that we all had our reviews recently.. Mine was great, and from what hear, everyone else's was too. I don't think anyone was told they were spending too much time on the internet.. I'm hoping that whatever they've done to make the rest of the internet world inaccessible is going to be a costly headache, and that they'll decide they have some good employees who only want the option to be informed.. and maybe entertained every so often! Right??
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Micromanagement bites! We will need to get christhadasister a home pc or hope that the company decides it is too expensive to maintain or too problematic. It's only a test right now, 3 different software packages to see if they do what they want without too many issues. Keep our fingers crossed!
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