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Some what relevant story... Many years back I worked for a software company where we had traditional IT guys. One of the IT guys was really nice moral guy. One

by agentgt 10y ago

Some what relevant story... Many years back I worked for a software company where we had traditional IT guys. One of the IT guys was really nice moral guy. One of the things he did to keep our WAN connection speedy was monitor the firewalls and routers and do traffic shaping/shaving/balancing. He showed me once how much traffic was going to porn sites on the company WAN (he knew I wouldn't tell anyone). It was quite impressive... at times it was 35%. Now he could have been dick and found out which workers were looking at stuff but he did not and I remember distinctly his reasons were something like: "everyday I see the smoker crowd take 30 minute smoke breaks and all kinds of employees waste time and resources... but porn like coffee and cigarettes might actually help some people get work done..."

kilroy123 10y ago
Who the hell would watch porn at work!? I find this utterly bizarre. It is some exec having a wank in his office with the doors closed? Maybe I'm just the weirdo for not jerking it at work?
- agentgt 10y ago
  I had a couple of theories at the time who was doing it: * The sales team was predominately young college guys. I often saw these guys IMing links back and forth. * The consulting team often VPN tunneled in. I remember distinctly that IT could never get the routing on the VPN right such that internet traffic would not go through the VPN. That is they would VPN and think... hmm I'm alone in a hotel and leave the VPN client on.
  - acdha 10y ago
    At a previous workplace, that telework laptops were definitely a problem: someone senior broke policy by letting their teenage son use it, which was first noticed from the heavy P2P traffic over the VPN but the excuse was accepted when the porn browsing continued while the exec was in the office explaining.
- majani 10y ago
  Perhaps. Considering work is the most likely place to have clean bathrooms during the day, and there are a lot heavy masturbators out there.
jazoom 10y ago
So that's why I'm not reaching my full potential in productivity

by agentgt 10y ago

kilroy123 10y ago

Who the hell would watch porn at work!? I find this utterly bizarre. It is some exec having a wank in his office with the doors closed? Maybe I'm just the weirdo for not jerking it at work?

agentgt 10y ago
I had a couple of theories at the time who was doing it: * The sales team was predominately young college guys. I often saw these guys IMing links back and forth. * The consulting team often VPN tunneled in. I remember distinctly that IT could never get the routing on the VPN right such that internet traffic would not go through the VPN. That is they would VPN and think... hmm I'm alone in a hotel and leave the VPN client on.
- acdha 10y ago
  At a previous workplace, that telework laptops were definitely a problem: someone senior broke policy by letting their teenage son use it, which was first noticed from the heavy P2P traffic over the VPN but the excuse was accepted when the porn browsing continued while the exec was in the office explaining.
majani 10y ago
Perhaps. Considering work is the most likely place to have clean bathrooms during the day, and there are a lot heavy masturbators out there.

jazoom 10y ago

So that's why I'm not reaching my full potential in productivity