they stopped all internet connections apart from internal ones to prevent staff surfing the net whilst at work (was a small insurance firm in a provincial town). They also read e-mails and tapped phones (as insurance companies do in case of any come back on policies incorrectly sold).
I sat on reception with very little to do and at least I LOOKED busy if I was on the net. When they blocked my access I rather deliberately sat there reading books or doing the Times Cryptic Crossword. Silly sods, honestly!
After I left the company I tried to e-mail a friend who worked there and was horrified to find I was blocked from sending e-mails to that company!!!! If an employee received X number of personal e-mails a week then the sender was blocked!
Oh I had so many ding dongs with the woman who managed that place it doesn't bear repeating here :D
they stopped all internet connections apart from internal ones to prevent staff surfing the net whilst at work (was a small insurance firm in a provincial town). They also read e-mails and tapped phones (as insurance companies do in case of any come back on policies incorrectly sold).
I sat on reception with very little to do and at least I LOOKED busy if I was on the net. When they blocked my access I rather deliberately sat there reading books or doing the Times Cryptic Crossword. Silly sods, honestly!
After I left the company I tried to e-mail a friend who worked there and was horrified to find I was blocked from sending e-mails to that company!!!! If an employee received X number of personal e-mails a week then the sender was blocked!
Oh I had so many ding dongs with the woman who managed that place it doesn't bear repeating here :D