It burns us.
So today, as I was chillin at my desk, I was surfing the internets. A shock, I know, but it happens from time to time, and it’s an excellent way to pass some time.
I was happily navigating the internets, when I clicked on a page, and was greeted by this frightening image:
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Of course, I wasn’t going to amnesty.org, I was going to something alot more trivial, a website that sells tea to be exact. So mine instead said: “The Websense category ‘Shopping’ is filtered.”
Oh well, I tell myself. So I can’t shop. I go to check my gmail, my precious gmail, and it says… “The Websense category ‘Web-based E-mail’ is filtered.”
It burns us.
FL: Star Warz Rap - very old school, easily 5+ years as it says you’d be best have a Pentium 2 to play it. “ohhh! why’d you slice off my hand!”
I would tell you to go through a proxy server, but then again, i wouldn’t want to shop using one. I wouldn’t mind checking my email through one… i think. lol.
I believe this officially cuts my “Eric Communication Time” down by 9/12ths, which is utterly disturbing…
Are you grieving your loss (of freedom to surf)? I know I would be.
Welcome to the wonderful paranoid world of IT professionals who think filtering the internet makes workers more productive. We had a Watchguard where I worked. When properly configured, they can cut down on a lot of spam issues, but they tend to piss the employees off.
Just shows that companies think the problem is that web content is making workers less productive, rather than the reality that sometimes there is nothing better to do. 100% productivity is nearly impossible in a white collar job, thus the comfy office chair and computer. Now you will just resort to surfing the pages you are allowed to browse, or call someone, or maybe play solitaire (or did they remove that from your PC too)
We locked down solitaire, minesweeper and all the other windows games via group policy. I had a hack that I gave to the employees I liked though XD.