We may not be around as much :(

[Ginger's Mom]

I think employers are going to wise up soon and continue to ask employees to spend their time doing work - and not playing. Sorry if this offens you. If you have so much down time that you can play on the internet, then maybe your job isn't so necessary.

Wow, this is very presumptuous and arrogant. Now I understand why you had such a hard time at work and needed to get out of there. If you exhibited this attitude to your co-workers I am sure they were not very pleasant to you in turn. There are so many ways the same thing could have been said without being offensive.

I am on PT on my lunch hour. Why? Because the other three people in my unit go out to lunch and it always takes over an hour to get back which leaves the unit uncovered for long periods of time. I always bring my lunch (don't make enough to go out), and don't mind answering the phone and questions/problems that come up. Prior to discovering Pet Talk I would read the paper. People who are more interested in playing than working will spend more time playing than working, no matter what the IT people do. I have one co-worker that on several occasions has been on her cell phone, desk phone, and a co-worker's phone all at the same time on personal business.

I have noticed that you haven't been around as much, and did, in fact, miss seeing Sunny and hearing about her escapades. I guess I will just have to make sure I check out her doggie diary more often.

[smokey the elder]

I agree with Ginger's Mom. There are such things as breaks and lunch time. Typically internet use (within reason) is allowed at my place, save the obvious "nawtee" sites which are blocked anyway. The only time I ever was blocked was when I went to check the Mega-Millions numbers (gambling-related, therefore forbidden.) People found ways to goof off before the internet existed, and unfortunately those whose job it affects will face consequences. [/soapbox]

[sasvermont]

Put yourself in your employers' shoes. If employees need to have restrictions via the IT folks, then they must care how their money is being spent through wages.

Call me old fashioned, I don't think down time or lunch time should be spent playing on the internet.

To each his own.

[pitc9]

Call me old fashioned, I don't think down time or lunch time should be spent playing on the internet.

To each his own.

I'm glad you're not my boss! My lunch time is just that... MINE!

I will do what I want on my lunch time.

[sasvermont]

I think it is so unprofessional to sit and play on your company's computer. That is why the IT folks often are asked to control access to the internet. It is no different than sitting on the phone while at work.

I think it is the difference between an employee vs. employer mentality.

We agree that we don't agree on this.....but hey, someone thinks its not appropriate if companies are stopping access or limiting it.

Sorry if my opinion offends. It's my opinion. We are all entitled to one.

[gini]

I am self employed. I have no employees. I got up from my desk chair one day and turned around and looked at the chair. Out loud I said, as I was pointing my finger at the chair, "you have got to stop spending so much time on Pet Talk and other sites and get some work done!"

I sat back down and said to myself "oh, rats, I got busted!"

As a result, I am not on Pet Talk as much because my boss is really a B____!.

[MoonandBean]

LOL!

OK...here's a post (from home) as Sunny graduated from puppy kindergarten tonight. I will post more pics under "dog general"

[Ginger's Mom]

Call me old fashioned, I don't think down time or lunch time should be spent playing on the internet.

To each his own.

There is nothing wrong with you thinking that someone should not spend their lunch time reading Pet Talk on the internet, just as there is nothing wrong with my thinking that the ladies shouldn't be playing cards at lunch time. However, there is one big difference. I would never suggest to the ladies playing cards that they were not needed at work because that is what they have decided to do on their lunch break. You have made that suggestion in your first post. That is what is offensive. What anyone does on their lunch break, whether you approve or not, does not reflect on their work abilities or priorities.