To: Ramius
Oh, if only it was that simple. This is not an ISP problem, it's my stupid employer. We all have internet access through our network, but they monitor everything and then provide supervisors with weekly reports on how much time their employees have spent online. this report doesn't distinguish between work-related and private internet usage at all.
If I had a reasonable, descent boss it wouldn't be a problem. However, she starts making an issue out of it if we get above 100 minutes per week!
So I'm hoping I can find a way to access the internet on a handheld, pocket-PC or if I must, a laptop, that wouldn't go through the company network but that I could use during the day while I'm at work. I have Earthlink DSL at home, so I'll probably check them first.
11,215 posted on
03/02/2004 6:19:13 PM PST by
Penny1
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To: Penny1
If I had a reasonable, descent boss it wouldn't be a problem. However, she starts making an issue out of it if we get above 100 minutes per week!I can spend that in a morning just trying to get product information for work. Dang!
To: Penny1
Oh... that just wallows in lameness.
In exchange for what they *think* is a productivity problem they produce a morale problem, which of course is a productivity killer.
I suppose it has never occurred to them that it is impossible to actually measure how much *time* a user spends using the internet to hit web sites. The only thing they can track is what sites where visited and when, but there is no mechanism whatsoever to actually track how long a user's web browser is open, nor can they track how long it takes a user to read a web page. All they can track is when refreshes happen. Measuring web surfing in "minutes" simply cannot be done. The actual "time" that you "use" the internet connection is only a few seconds per web page.
Do you know if they are using an actual "key-logging" system? If they're this paranoid I'll bet they are... and *that* stuff is totally over the top.
Where in the hell do you work, anyway?
To: Penny1
Dang...that's just crazy! Hope you find a solution!
11,236 posted on
03/02/2004 6:44:15 PM PST by
RosieCotton
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