It sucks getting someone bagged that you like

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:29 pm

One client of mine has been clamping down on usage of the computers...mostly employees goofing off. I'm always laid back, never care what staff of other companies do on their PCs (unless it's clearly bad stuff that will me grief in taking care of the PC). But anyways, had a few staff whos surfing habits were being monitored. Today was it for one staff I guess, after a warning, the boss had me print out detailed reports on her surfing. Twas shown the door.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:30 pm

What was she surfing?

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:37 pm

Freakin chair man surfs youtube sites all day. His email files are huge (Last I looked, was 700 mb range.) probably gig range now.

When I had the luxury of using NOD32, he (chair man) would get virus warning all the time.

I bet his pc is full of spyware and trojans.

Gixxer · Post by **Gixxer** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:41 pm

we had an exec who got caught surfing porn twice and nothing happened because "he was too valuable to the company".

policy, to me, covers everybody.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:42 pm

Gixxer wrote:we had an exec who got caught surfing porn twice and nothing happened because "he was too valuable to the company".

policy, to me, covers everybody.

Yeah really

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:43 pm

I started into this thread thinking someone got tea bagged some how...

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:43 pm

I love the ones that do their taxes on work time and work PC's.

Gixxer · Post by **Gixxer** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:43 pm

Sava700 wrote:I started into this thread thinking i wanted tea bagged some how...

fixed

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:44 pm

CableDude wrote:I love the ones that do their taxes on work time and work PC's.

well hell I was sitting on my work PC today playing Battlefield Heroes!

Gixxer · Post by **Gixxer** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:44 pm

Sava700 wrote:well hell I was sitting on my work PC today playing Battlefield Heroes!

we play cod 2 (about 10 of us) everyday at lunch, at work with teamspeak.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:46 pm

Gixxer wrote:we play cod 2 (about 10 of us) everyday at lunch, at work with teamspeak.

the good thing about Heroes is its web based and looks really good.. its in beta form and will be free when it comes out.. you should try it when it does..its fun as hell!

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:46 pm

Sava700 wrote:well hell I was sitting on my work PC today playing Battlefield Heroes!

You are exempt.

Gixxer · Post by **Gixxer** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:47 pm

CableDude wrote:You are exempt.

agreed

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:47 pm

CableDude wrote:You are exempt.

of course... while playing I'm prob multi-tasking several laptops at the same time

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:28 pm

Yea what was she looking at... you cant tell us that and not deliver.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:09 am

Joe wrote:Yea what was she looking at... you cant tell us that and not deliver.

Nothing specific as in one site...just patterns of hanging out at facebook, classmates, various web mail, some online jewelry shopping, and individual traffic was far and beyond the highest of all their users there. Just heavy patterns of "goofing off"...even outside of lunch hour. Last week this persons web traffic was over 1.2 gigs. Not one other person there generated over 100 megs in 1 week. Network of approx 70 users on a 20 meg pipe. Heavy traffic from play.it too.

blebs · Post by **blebs** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:11 am

Yeah, but what sucks even more is you getting bagged because you didn't bag the other person. Been there, done that.

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:16 am

YeOldeStonecat wrote:One client of mine has been clamping down on usage of the computers...mostly employees goofing off. I'm always laid back, never care what staff of other companies do on their PCs (unless it's clearly bad stuff that will me grief in taking care of the PC). But anyways, had a few staff whos surfing habits were being monitored. Today was it for one staff I guess, after a warning, the boss had me print out detailed reports on her surfing. Twas shown the door.

What are you using to monitor their usage?

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:21 am

Scott wrote:What are you using to monitor their usage?

Reporting component of Untangle, with the AD connector.

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:20 pm

I have to admit I probably spend more time than I should but I do try and keep it to a minimum. Also, the sites I go to are mostly weather and news. I did notice that they put up a filter for blogs and forums the other day.