Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Access Denied...

Just a little rant....I am all for company security, information technology rules and regulations. 

However, at work I like to listen to my playlist.com music site (that I so excitingly blogged about last February) read a little Hollywood gossip here and there - fashion police anyone!  But guess what, I'm blocked now.  One little Microsoft Upgrade, has sent all my favorite sites to upgrade exile.  
  
I know people look for jobs on company time and on company equipment - which is very crazy, inappropriate and a huge risk and that kind of thing should be prevented.  Some people may blog at work (I may think of a topic and email it to myself), facebooking (yeah FB is blocked too - but I'm not a Facebooker anyway - face what?) Others may twit, tweet, chirp - whatever they do on Twitter - I'm not a Twitterer either (am I starting to sound lame?) People also shop on their company computers (I've done this - whoops) but hey, plane tickets and concert tickets are the most I do.  You can't lallygag when buying those types of things.  And I can't forget about my new found love - Groupon!!!!  Yes - I groupon at work!  Those deals are on the clock....

But I suppose I'll get over it - I can still listen to CDs on my computer and I brought in my Ipod docking station for my listening pleasure.  As for shopping - still gonna do that - I'm not blocked from groupon.com, ticketmaster.com and expedia.com ~ HA! 

So, while I am both for and against personal Internet use on company property and time - here's my two cents - you, my FBers and Twitterers - there is always those apps on those oh so suped-up phones that you could use throughout the day, No, I don't have an Iphone or blackberry - so I really don't know how those apps work either!  But, those TV commercials make it seem like its easy!




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