[Nacht]

at work my manager called me in her office and was like "using the internet is something we do not do blah blah blah blah" so now..whenever there is no customer there, i just have to sit staring blankly ahead. today, I actually had my copy of CGW, so I had something to read...but I fear for tommorow. got any ideas?

[Chaos]

a new manager

[dipstick]

Get a Gameboy or something. Easy to hide

[pr0digal jenius]

net send the entire domain somethign to the effect of "free donuts in the lobby, courtesy of the management"

[Nacht]

lol

only prob is...my dad practically owns it (its a bank) so i cant really do anything like THAT lol....guess ill just have to find alot more reading materials

what are some other good pc gaming or pc hardware magazines? also ones taht arent amazingly biased like egm

[Sturmbahn]

Maximum PC - hardware
PC Gamer - games

Your situation sounds almost as bad as at Convergys in St. Louis. Unless you work with a bunch of fat smelly 'failed in life' morons who work there as a trained level-one phone monkey cause they 'know sumpin bout dem com-puters.'

[Judas]

gaud.. i think that rediculous..

I mean... how much bandwidth do you think your using.. specially at a bank.. serious?.... maybe 0.1%? how much money is it costing for them?.... it's freaking rediculious

[riles9262]

Pick up some good novels. I do pity you tho

[Nacht]

well...i didnt think about the bandwith thing...i think it's more about them not wanting to ignore customers...think it's too much of a distraction. but...the bandwith is a good point, because the bank has always had a t1 line...but, they just put in a VoIP system (which i had recommended my dad look at about a year ago) and they havent gotten another t1 line yet (they are getting another one to be dedicated for the phones). right now, i might have to go buy those at the newstands...but ill subscribe soon. i like hardware

[Falstaff]

you could be more productive and focus on keeping your job......(christ what am I saying)....bwaahahahhaha

[pr0digal jenius]

load the original doom and quake up on the computer...it isnt internet...so they cant say "we told you......."

[Judas]

lol..... not sure how the computers would fair..

[pr0digal jenius]

its doom.....it runs on EDO RAM

[Nacht]

no, thats a bigger no-no...it would be my job if that was on there. somebody got fired for having aim on it..and they were in an upper level position.

[Ryoko]

Originally posted by rob13800
no, thats a bigger no-no...it would be my job if that was on there. somebody got fired for having aim on it..and they were in an upper level position.

yeah, i think you really need new management. that's rediculous.

[pr0digal jenius]

my boss let me do w/e i wanted alast summer.. AIM, music(on speakers, not headphones), all he asked was no games...but no AIM is just plain mean

[@/2ct!<]

ask your dad to fire your manager

[OpusP.Gladiator]

saw some 7" screen thing that plays divx ... looks interesting.... of course it's ridiculously expensive!!!

[blown503]

Originally posted by pr0digal jenius
its doom.....it runs on EDO RAM

And would play at Mach II with an overclocked Pentium 4!

[blown503]

Originally posted by rob13800
no, thats a bigger no-no...it would be my job if that was on there. somebody got fired for having aim on it..and they were in an upper level position.

You need to kick her ass, if your dad owns the place!

[Matth]

If they're worried about security, then they should be VERY worried, as if the security is so poor that it copuld be compromised that way, I sure as hell wouldn't want to have any money with that bank.

If you are operating in an "on call" manner, then perhaps the best resolution would be a standby/recreation area, with internet allowed, but protected from the rest of the network.

If you have something else you should be doing, why have you been wasting time on the Internet, your dad should fire YOU!

[Vampyromaniac]

^ sums it up for me

[swimtech]

Originally posted by fallang_jeff
you could be more productive and focus on keeping your job......(christ what am I saying)....bwaahahahhaha

I guess I'm just "old school" as well. The computers and your time belong to them while you're there - is likely their attitude - and they are seemingly applying the "rules" to others as much as to you so they sound fair - if restrictive (the boss no doubt has her reasons...).

Two words - yes ma'am.

[Logla]

if you get that bored between seeing customers, you can buy my old ipaq - you can play some tremendous games or read books on it and keep an excel spreadsheet open in the background so you look like you're working when you're really killing time

[krazy1]

I myself was almost stoped from coming to this site from work BUT because I am in the IT department & they partially consider DH a tech site I am saved. Plus it helps to have friends on the security team who monitor the Web proxy.

[pr0digal jenius]

Originally posted by Logla
keep an excel spreadsheet open in the background so you look like you're working when you're really killing time

this man has experience!

[Logla]

you aint kiddin' bro.

try spending your whole day swapping out base units which are built remotely and take an hour and a half to complete.

because of this, I now consider myself a solitaire guru

[pr0digal jenius]

i dominate at hearts after last suymmer's job