Do you DU at work? Have you ever been caught??

[ailsagirl]

Just curious

[AmyDeLune]

1. I do, I haven't, but my boss surfs porn sites...

so I'm not really worried. :D

[ailsagirl]

3. Are you serious?? Ewwwwwwww....

[AmyDeLune]

10. Well, he's the owner of the business, and it's really nothing more then nude pin-up style

stuff (Playboy/Maxim type), at least when he uses my computer and doesn't wipe the browsing history. I've never had any desire to see what he's got bookmarked on *his* computer though.

[ailsagirl]

11. Let's face it-- all bosses have their eccentricities!! :)

[elshiva]

13. How about....

http://bp1.blogger.com/_M-qMCr5LrUA/R94_UYlYMXI/AAAAAAAAATE/f_f2GkBxe5I/s400/david+tennant+kitten.jpg

Is that porn? ;)

[malta blue]

2. I do most of my DUing at work and I have never

been caught. That being said, I am ALLOWED to surf porn sites at work as part of my "research" :rofl:

[ailsagirl]

4. I sit with my back to the room, so I have to be careful...

Grounds for dismissal, you know :(

[MrCoffee]

5. Yes and No

I angled my monitor so that no one can see what I'm up to.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. Doing it right now. They don't mind.

[billyskank]

7. Fucking WebSense at work blocks DU

and it is all my fault. :(

[npk]

28. That's when I post the most, at work.

At home I have to much to do, cook, clean, help with homework. For me, my escape is when I am at work. At least where I work everybody leaves me the hell alone. The perks of being a writer, is that they expect me to be online looking at websites. So they can't really say anything.

[mwooldri]

8. Yes. In our "own time" we can surf the web...

... our system is nicely firewalled at work. No Youtube, no Myspace, no Facebook. but yes to most other places. Just don't download software (so no IM, except for our own internal one). And yes, my boss knows. It's my "liberal news site" to my coachees at work.

Mark.

[mainegreen]

9. Yup. I'm sure they know, as the web filter blocks everything, yet mysteriously not DU.

[billyskank]

16. Must be some DUers in your IT support dept.

;)

[Generic Brad]

I have never tried

I'm the boss. I have to set an example. Plus I'm too busy to do anything for personal enjoyment 12 hours out of the day.

[sniffa]

12. Every day I DU it

I got caught on Thursday afternoon; I returned to my office (I only go back once a week for time sheets, and such) to print out my homework, which I posted on DU (I don't have Word on my computer). The boss showed up on the computer I was on to close everything down, and the program he had open, was my DU post.

When I used to be an office worker, I always had DU open in a tab.

[Redstone]

14. Well, since I own the company, it's kind of a non-issue for me.

Redstone

[ailsagirl]

18. Damn, but these days it's hard to tear myself away from it...

:popcorn:

[tigereye]

15. I work mostly at home, except for office meetings

so any DUing here at home isn't an issue.

[hobbit709]

17. I be my boss-Except for my wife.

so I DU or anything else unless I'm actually doing something.

[DS1]

19. Yes, I sure do. I ad-block all the political images and the icons on top

so it doesn't look as much like a messageboard. Also, most sig lines are gone.

[ailsagirl]

20. I try to remember to clear my cache before my work day ends

Big Brother is everywhere

[Roon]

21. I work for my Uncle in his shop

and he catches me all the time. He's a republican. He just quit looking at my screen after awhile. It pisses him off.

[Left Is Write]

22. I don't do any personal surfing at work.

I do, however, do some work on my own personal computer. Hmmm.

[Left Brain]

23. 1)yes 2)no

At the very least, I read Ozy's SMW every morning break. That's a must read.

[SarahB]

24. Rarely

I actually have to work during my workday and frankly don't have time.

[Iggo]

25. Yes and Yes (sort of)

I told my boss I was just reading the news. Now if he'd've caught me checking my fantasy football team, I'd really have been in trouble...lol.

[Danger Mouse]

26. I only glance at it at work. I do read kos and huffington post from there, though.

it's not a matter of getting caught...if i'm supposed to be doing something else, i'm too busy to sit at a computer. :)

[Liberal_in_LA]

27. I worked with an extreme rightwinger who had a pic of Bush as his background at work.

His screen was quite visible so you were looking at it when walking past his desk.

[Mutley]

29. Yes. And no.

They can't take our internet away, though. We actually need it to look things up for guests. :D

[fishwax]

30. I used to quite often, back when I worked a 9-5 job

I'm sure I got "caught" once or twice, but never quite so flagrantly that I couldn't talk my way out of it--it never went on my permanent record or anything :rofl:

"I'd say on a given week I probably do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work"

[dropkickpa]

31. most of the time

But my productive output is so much higher than others in my position, It's not even noticed.

[bigwillq]

32. I DU it all the time.

And some of my co-workers know about it but they go on-line for non-work related stuff too so no one ever says anything. I've never been caught by one of the big bosses though.

[Nikia]

33. We aren't even allowed to have internet access at our office computers

We can use the owner's computer to access the internet in front of him if we really need to. Since we are being directly watched though and yelled at if something is taking too long, it is better not to.
When we tell our business contacts that we cannot access their website, I think that it makes us look unprofessional.