[Ramius]

For the life of me, I don't know why so many IT managers want to monitor for content. I think it is merely for the power trip.

We monitor for bandwidth. Somebody starts downloading movies... sucking up all the bandwidth... then I care. But we only really care about the congestion. People that are misusing company time or assets... they're already going to be on the fast track out of the company anyway.

[RosieCotton]

Yeah...at the college we did monitor bandwidth. If someone had an obvious need for more bandwidth, we let 'em get away with a lot - the TV folks, for example. Anyone else, we would speak to.

But detailed monitoring for content...just seems like a waste of resources to me. And I figure it's not as though IT would be likely to find out something that direct coworkers didn't already know. If someone is really not getting their job done, most likely it's already obvious why.

Power trippin'. And maybe a bit of voyeurism.

[JenB]

Exactly. Good managers care about results, not the sanity breaks.

I figure if the metrosexual down the row doesn't get yelled at for reading DailyKos at a 90% conservative place, I'm ok reading FR now and then.