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If your need to get onto reddit is so strong that you have to do it at work and hide it, you have problems other than whether someone sees it over your shoulder

If your need to get onto reddit is so strong that you have to do it at work and hide it, you have problems other than whether someone sees it over your shoulder. If you get on reddit at work for work-related reasons, you should be fine - and if you won't be, this isn't going to help with the problems in your office.

icebraining 11y ago
If your need to get onto reddit is so strong that you have to do it at work and hide it, you have problems other than whether someone sees it over your shoulder. No, it just means you enjoy reading it and you're willing to break some rule you probably consider dumb and inconsequential. Why do you think people have to have a "strong need" to be willing to break workplaces rules?
- LulzSect 11y ago
  "The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care."
  - forgotmysn 11y ago
    What if - and believe me this is a hypothetical - but what if you were offered some kind of a stock option equity sharing program. Would that do anything for you?
    - Swannie 11y ago
      Unlikely, as the relationship between short term time use, and long term pay off is poorly linked.
      - d23 11y ago
        I'm not sure if the whoosh is over my head or yours at this point.
- fencepost 11y ago
  I've been the person disabling the accounts of former employees in just that situation after a couple of warnings. Not being an employee or always on-site I have no idea if there were other "dumb and inconsequential" rules also being broken, but I know for sure when the "no personal email or surfing" rule stopped being broken. Admittedly the case I'm thinking of was a low-level staffer not a medical professional (or developer), but on the other hand I've also seen the advice to "find your indispensable person and fire them (before they quit or get hit by a bus)." I've also been the person being asked "hey, just between us, how can I check my email/MySpace/LiveJournal/Facebook/Flavor-of-the-week?" Answer: Get a smartphone, use their app or check your email during breaks on your phone not on the company network. Some places are more rigid about this and some are less. I also tell businesses that I can do some measure of blocking, but that at its core things like this are a business and HR policy thing as much as they're a technical issue to be addressed. And finally, I've been the person charging for cleaning up viruses, doing nuke-and-paves, and (fortunately only once) restoring from backup after what I'll still call "stupid user tricks" when a senior partner wanted a newer version of Office and went to download it. Ain't Cryptolocker fun?
k__ 11y ago
If your need to hide your private browsing is so strong that you have to use tools like CodeReddit, you have an anti social working environment and should change jobs.

icebraining 11y ago

If your need to get onto reddit is so strong that you have to do it at work and hide it, you have problems other than whether someone sees it over your shoulder. No, it just means you enjoy reading it and you're willing to break some rule you probably consider dumb and inconsequential. Why do you think people have to have a "strong need" to be willing to break workplaces rules?

LulzSect 11y ago
"The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care."
- forgotmysn 11y ago
  What if - and believe me this is a hypothetical - but what if you were offered some kind of a stock option equity sharing program. Would that do anything for you?
  - Swannie 11y ago
    Unlikely, as the relationship between short term time use, and long term pay off is poorly linked.
    - d23 11y ago
      I'm not sure if the whoosh is over my head or yours at this point.
fencepost 11y ago
I've been the person disabling the accounts of former employees in just that situation after a couple of warnings. Not being an employee or always on-site I have no idea if there were other "dumb and inconsequential" rules also being broken, but I know for sure when the "no personal email or surfing" rule stopped being broken. Admittedly the case I'm thinking of was a low-level staffer not a medical professional (or developer), but on the other hand I've also seen the advice to "find your indispensable person and fire them (before they quit or get hit by a bus)." I've also been the person being asked "hey, just between us, how can I check my email/MySpace/LiveJournal/Facebook/Flavor-of-the-week?" Answer: Get a smartphone, use their app or check your email during breaks on your phone not on the company network. Some places are more rigid about this and some are less. I also tell businesses that I can do some measure of blocking, but that at its core things like this are a business and HR policy thing as much as they're a technical issue to be addressed. And finally, I've been the person charging for cleaning up viruses, doing nuke-and-paves, and (fortunately only once) restoring from backup after what I'll still call "stupid user tricks" when a senior partner wanted a newer version of Office and went to download it. Ain't Cryptolocker fun?

k__ 11y ago

If your need to hide your private browsing is so strong that you have to use tools like CodeReddit, you have an anti social working environment and should change jobs.