no fun internet at new job

[kalmn]

hi all-- i have a new job, and they have an internet policy that seems to be that you can do personal things on the internet but not fun things on the internet. lj/dw/fb/twitter all count as fun. or at least i'm assuming so-- there's only a certain number of times a person wants to hit the banned site setup.

sooo, reading list going way down. there's only so many things i can read on the iphone walking to and from meetings. and i am finding that when i don't get to be on the 'net during the day, i do not have the patience to sift through the whole thing in the evenings and weekends.

if you are tremendously sad about this turn of events, you know what to do.

Comments

[james_davis_nicoll]

[puppy dog eyes]

[kalmn]

and james demonstrates! i am a sucker for puppy dog eyes.

[james_davis_nicoll]

You would have liked the puppies I was playing with last night.

[jiawen]

Yeah, this makes me a bit sad, too.

[emceeaich]

But it means DW is now big enough to register as suspect with the nannyware vendors.

[redbird]

*waves hopefully* (don't think I can manage puppy dog eyes)

What sort of personal stuff do they let you do, then? Researching and buying tickets for vacations, or ordering stuff from Amazon? Catching up with the news from the BBC or a random newspaper's website?

[onyxlynx]

Kitten nose bumps?

(I don't do dog.)

[aedifica]

It does indeed make me sad, but I don't think I have the skills necessary to hack into your company's network and whitelist Dreamwidth. :-)

[heyfoureyes]

when I am in that kind of work situation, I often see if I can get put my copy of rescuetime (www.rescuetime.com) on the work computer; it blocks out user-specified websites on all browsers for a certain length of time.

ironically, the place that i work at now helps companies market things through the social web so a block like this could never work.