MB.com @ Work

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:16 pm

So I have noticed that during the day there are lots of registers users and guests on pretty consistently all day, but not many new posts and replies get posted. I was just wondering who else is like me and keeps modern buddy open in the background on their work computers to check back while they have “slow time” at work?

DennisD · Post by **DennisD** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:34 pm

Nothing but work going on here!

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:35 pm

my addiction to this forum makes me think I should quit my job and get a job at a scooter store...
at least then I wouldnt have to worry about getting in trouble for being on here

gt1000 · Post by **gt1000** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:45 pm

I check MB and a few other forums while I'm eating lunch.

OKBubbles · Post by **OKBubbles** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:56 pm

I'm a teacher -- it's summer -- I can hang out anytime.

Everything gets back to "normal" on Aug. 1, when teachers will report back to school.

By the way, "normal" is relative. I teach 8th grade, and there is nothing "normal" about that age!

dru_ · Post by **dru_** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:27 pm

Let me ask the boss if it's ok.

The boss says it's ok. Oh wait, I own the company

...

jim_0068 · Post by **jim_0068** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:34 pm

I know a few people who run web forums and on most of them, there highest traffic times are during normal working hours

ScootingInTheRain · Post by **ScootingInTheRain** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:36 pm

All day at work.
All evening at home.
Having anxiety dreams about what gloves to buy at night.
Check Gmail on my BlackBerry for updated threads every 2 minutes.

I hope this obsession subsides after I actually get my scooter. Or not.

~SITRwhenOhWhenOhWhenWillMyBuddyArrive?

kilted texan · Post by **kilted texan** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:37 pm

+1 OKBubbles

Wife teaches 7th grade reading. She says, "All middle schoolers should be shipped off to an island & picked back up after 3 years."

BuddyLove · Post by **BuddyLove** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:18 pm

at my old job I would spend quite a lot of time on here during the work day...now that I work at a scooter shop I don't have time!!

tatoepfer · Post by **tatoepfer** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:38 pm

I usually am on my league's roller derby forum all day and have been trying to wean myself off by lurking on the Modern Buddy forum. Trading bad habits.

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:47 pm

For those of you with inquisitive bosses, open one of your work documents in the background, then open MB.com, if you hear someone walking up behind you, hit ALT + Tab, and it will switch you to your work stuff… and when I am typing out longer responses like this one, I will open a new email type it in there, then copy and paste… it will keep MB off of your screen while you are getting your type on. I am a bad employee…

Orange Guy · Post by **Orange Guy** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:56 pm

I work from home ...

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:10 pm

i love that know one thinks it is stealing work time!... oh well, i guess they wouldnt have a chance to post yet, since they are at work, and not stealing time!

MPA · Post by **MPA** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:37 pm

I've been in my job 5.5 years and it seems like 90% of the time I am playing on the internet

Even have MB as a bookmark (and a bunch of other sites too) on my iphone if I'm somewhere and feel like surfing.

Racenut · Post by **Racenut** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:51 pm

I'm the Network Admin, so I'm the one that busts people for inappropriate internet usage.

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:00 pm

That is like being the internal financial auditor and not auditing your own accounts… I LOVE IT! hahahaha

Post by **ericalm** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:09 am

wheelies wrote:I've been in my job 5.5 years and it seems like 90% of the time I am playing on the internet

Even have MB as a bookmark (and a bunch of other sites too) on my iphone if I'm somewhere and feel like surfing.

What is your job? Does it pay incredibly well? And are you hiring?

Ronin · Post by **Ronin** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:23 am

Oy, I would love to be able to pull up MB at work. Alas, anything that has a forum on it is detected by my work's filters and a window instead pops up letting me know that I've been misbehaving and if I continue down the path that I am traveling, I will be looking for employment elsewhere.

Also, I am a training manager, so it probbaabbllyyy wouldn't be to wise to look at MB anyhow. Not exactly a "lead by example" situation!

jim_0068 · Post by **jim_0068** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:52 am

MikieTaps wrote:For those of you with inquisitive bosses, open one of your work documents in the background, then open MB.com, if you hear someone walking up behind you, hit ALT + Tab, and it will switch you to your work stuff… and when I am typing out longer responses like this one, I will open a new email type it in there, then copy and paste… it will keep MB off of your screen while you are getting your type on. I am a bad employee…

Let me just tell you and everyone else, if you work at a place that has an IT department, most likely they are tracking everything you do on the internet. They can even find out how many minutes you were online, where you were going, etc.

IT departments are like "big brother."

jim_0068 · Post by **jim_0068** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:53 am

Racenut wrote:I'm the Network Admin, so I'm the one that busts people for inappropriate internet usage.

HA! I didn't read this before i posted, but there ya go!

Racenut · Post by **Racenut** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:20 am

jim_0068 wrote:Let me just tell you and everyone else, if you work at a place that has an IT department, most likely they are tracking everything you do on the internet. They can even find out how many minutes you were online, where you were going, etc.

IT departments are like "big brother."

Can be, but unless you have a an IT dept with a lot of extra time on their hands...

When looking for internet abuse, I have basically two methods.

Sort by bandwidth used... This tends to find my YouTube whores. But also streaming audio/video. Both of which we ask users not to do. I ask nicely the first time, then rat them out to their boss after that

Then sort by site, which I use a filter looking for known sex sites and the sort as well as just skimming the list of sites visited for obvious domain names... xxxhotties.com is NOT work related no matter how you try to justify it

We use filters to block most of them, but once in awhile a new one pops up or something.

But, we run pretty lean on IT. There are certainly some out there that have staff monitoring internet traffic as their full time job. Be careful out there

Eazy · Post by **Eazy** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:21 am

I'm doing it right now.

addictionriot · Post by **addictionriot** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:59 am

I always check it while I'm "working"

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:06 am

the IT guy at my company is really the finance director... all the IT that he does is install and set up new phones and new accounting program...

MB.com @ Work

Do you browse MB.com while at work? or at least keep it open in the background to check up from time to time...

MB.com @ Work