it's more than my jobs worth!

[EastEnder]

ps - found today (from a workmate) that some jobsworth IT person has blocked facebook access. Since we can only use computers when we ain't 'working' the stealing-company-time argument does not apply, and the bandwidth involved is pretty modest. I showed my mate how to use web proxies at near-zero risk to my job.

Strictly speaking, it's my responsibility to monitor/block employee web access to potentially dodgy stuff. I've never once bothered - I download whatever the hell I like, so it'd be a bit hypocritical to stop anyone else. I do occasionally have to shout at the odd numpty who's been hogging the office connection for 5 days straight downloading torrents or something similar. But funnily enough, as a result of deliberately not being draconian whilst at the same time quietly reminding people not to do silly things, whenever anyone is in any doubt about the risk or impact of doing something on the net, they've got no hesitation in just asking me whether it's cool or not.

 

[MikeMcc]

The only time I would really be bothered is if someone over-rode the safety systems on our machines. I don't need to be cleaning up blood and answering to the HSE.