Terrible News Everyone!

[andrewducker]

Due to "excessive and inappropriate" internet usage, I'm no longer able to use livejournal (or the web at all for the next while). So you'll just have to live with evening and morning posts.

Sucks to be you...

Oh, which reminds me - due to decreased friends-reading time I'll be skim-reading some of you. So if there's something I really ought to be reading in depth, do let me know. I'll still tend to read most posts, but I'm not perfect :->

Comments

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

Argh, that sucks. Who's going to get me through the workday now?

[andrewducker]

There's an internet cafe about 200 feet from the office, so I may make the occasional lunchtime post if I can't wait to get something out of my system.

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

Wooo!

Was that excessive usage by you specifically, or the company as a whole?

Darn pencil-pushers who don't understand the therapeutic necessity of the internet in modern life....

[andrewducker]

me, specifically

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

ouch.

[aberbotimue.livejournal.com]

there is a god..


i mean.. oh god no..

[magent.livejournal.com]

Welcome to hell

Or in other words, I sympathise deeply since I'm in a similar position. My only advantage is that the person at work who complained is on holiday so I have about another week to wind down my usage.

[spaj.livejournal.com]

If only the people at my work weren't half-wits, you'd be saved from me too. Luckily, I'm pretty down with that half-wit mentality, meaning that rather than help enrich the world with witty and informative posts, I just spend my lunchtimes surfing CS forums, and reading dilbert....

Adam

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

Well, at least it didn't happen by someone on your online forum getting upset with you and deciding to report you to your employer, resulting in the police taking away your computer (as happened to someone on an IRC channel where I occasionally hang out...)

[allorin.livejournal.com]

Did they say how long for?

I mean, I assume it will be reviewed in a few months time?

[andrewducker]

3 months.

[birdofparadox.livejournal.com]

damn the man!

[in-thy-bounty.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, I'm sure you'll find a way around it. Like when I accidentally discovered a stolen internet password at work...

[andrewducker]

I have no intention of working my way around it. It's their internet connection after all, not mine.

I'm sure I'll find something to ocupy my mind in those gaps between things.

[in-thy-bounty.livejournal.com]

So a 'fight the power/stick it to the man' speech wouldn't move you?

[in-thy-bounty.livejournal.com]

I'm permanent too, but I hate my job and have nothing but contempt for Abbey National :D

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Yuck. I've always been baffled by responses like that. As long as you get your work done, I'm baffled as to why they care.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha. Too much net eh?

And you should read everything that I post, obviously.

Say...

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Are you posting this from work?

Re: Say...

[andrewducker]

At 5:33????

Re: Say...

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Well, you know. You can be like sneaking around. 9_9

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

You had it coming. I have it coming too.I was planning on using the "when you can say that I don't get my work done, then you have a point, otherwise, I can't see it". I always get great performance reviews.

You need to use the web for techie stuff for work - surely they are still elttign you do that?

[allorin.livejournal.com]

They'd argue against that. Our work is Cobol-based, and all support necessary should be in-house. Although you *can* use the 'net for techie stuff, they don't ask, expect or particularly want you to.

[andrewducker]

In my last job (and previous one) I used the web for work. In my current one I've used it a couple of times for work, but he only really useful thing was a tutorial on REXX. Strangely there's not a lot of COBOL discussion that I find useful :->