Reasons not to post on Company time

[wolf]

My boss can get that printout generated also.

I think he did a couple of times, but he has enough trouble trying to keep up with his regular work ... he really doesn't give a good goddamn who's looking at what online. Just in case, though, every now and then, we make sure we go to sites that the netnanny doesn't seem to know about ... oh, we also don't have a clear company policy with respect to what we can and can't look at at work.

He knows that if we're busy, we're working, and if we're not busy, we're clear to play. The nature of our business is such that we have to be there, we don't get breaks, we don't get to leave the office. People who work for real businesses certainly have different issues than I do as far as workload. There are never "projects" or "things I should be doing" in the conventional sense ... if I see someone, there's a flurry of paperwork, and I spend a good amount of time waiting on somebody else ... be it the doctor or the insurance company, so there's dead time on a good shift. And that's when the surfing commences.

The only "rule" as such is that we're not supposed to install any new (particularly game) software on the work machines. (the boss, incidentally, was a man who used to play Duke Nukem Deathmatches on the office network. We all did. But he's the boss now, and has had to make a blanket policy because the stupid people install things and fuck things up and make things hell for the smart people ... so he had to say no installations or you're fired.)

So, we do some webgaming, and read email, and I do have the high score for Minesweeper on all the office machines. This would be more impressive if I weren't the only one who understands the rules, but I do have the high score anyway.

The only reason I don't post to the cellar is that I can't be sure that once I start I'll be able to get all the way through before I lose my new post flags. I don't want to miss anything.