Doing sweeps at work

misssusan

misssusan

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hello all

i was just wondering if any of you do your sweeping at work? i'm a receptionist and have a lot of time on my hands and happen to stumble onto sweeping while surfing the net at work. my only fear is picking up viruses/spyware while going to all these different websites. i know the emails your really have to watch out for but have you had any trouble with that kind of stuff since you started sweeping? on your computers?

thanks
susan
 
I do almost all my sweeps from work as I have lots of time too. I found Sweepsadvantage the same way as you did, just playing on the internet. I have had no problems with spam.
 
Missusan: make sure to DELETE your cookies and internet search history (found under your tools/options toolbar)...... From here you should be "ok" with doing your sweeps @ work :sunny:
 
champagne said:
Missusan: make sure to DELETE your cookies and internet search history (found under your tools/options toolbar)...... From here you should be "ok" with doing your sweeps @ work :sunny:
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Not really true.

I would seriously look into your companies policy. I owned a company and didn't care at all what the folks did at my job.. as long as it wasn't porn or wasn't interfering with their jobs, I was lenient. But then again, I never had an issues.

But many companies have rules and many now make you sign something that they can fire you for doing it.

Deleting cookies does no good. Most companies get a reading of every site you are on and the whole nonsense of dumping cookies and deleting history isn't true. Even I had a read out. And no, they do not have to tell you that they are checking what you are doing. It's their computer and you are being paid by them.


Another suggestion: don't use proxies if your company has sites blocked. Most times, that is immediate grounds for termination and you aren't going to get unemployment in some states.

Don't want to sound like I'm coming down hard, but it will depend on the companies policy more than what you can get away with.
 
wow gorgor has me a little scared! i work for a pretty big company - offices all over. and we are all tied into a network and we have a big IT dept. so i bet they know exactly what i'm doing.... But i have been doing this since Oct 07 and no one has said anything yet????? i did hear of a person who left their myspace page and other pages open all day on their computer and that person lost their interent previleges for a while. i think i better start doing this at home. :(
 
misssusan said:
wow gorgor has me a little scared! i work for a pretty big company - offices all over. and we are all tied into a network and we have a big IT dept. so i bet they know exactly what i'm doing.... But i have been doing this since Oct 07 and no one has said anything yet????? i did hear of a person who left their myspace page and other pages open all day on their computer and that person lost their interent previleges for a while. i think i better start doing this at home. :(
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I didn't mean to scare.

Most companies have a way to restrict sites. Most times, they will block the site and you will get some message from IT "this page is blocked due to being non business" or something like that.

My opinion is don't wave it in their face and you probably won't have an issues.

If an employee of mine had her myspace up for hours, yeah, I would have been on her case.
 
I personally don't sweep at work because I don't get a single spare minute, I teach junior high. I've seen teachers transferred or fired if they weren't tenured for just being online while they had students. I don't know much about other professions, but I have a friend who was demoted to a position that did not include using the internet. All of a sudden, the company got a new CEO or supervisor or whatever she was and she looked at the records of what people were doing on the internet, apparantly the previous boss never did. By sweeping and surfing the web when you are supposed to be working, you might be breaking your contract if you have one or breaking your company's policy. They might not say anything now, but remember that they can use it against you when they decide to should they decide to. So I would look into your company policies because you never know who will get hired at the top and decide to check!! And I know people might get mad at me for saying this, but aren't you supposed to be working at work????? If I owned a company, I wouldn't want to be paying employees for surfing the web and entering their contests, that's just me though. It just doesn't seem right to me to be spending lots of time doing that if you are getting paid to do something else.
 
I wouldnt do sweep at work , I found out that everything that is brought up on the computer is stored in its memory and cant be erased that is why a lot of times when people get into trouble on the computer they take computer for evidence and besides my other job tracked everything we did on the computer and all our phone calls they made me so weary of computers , I'm afraid..
Now on my cell phone , I will do, I'll sign into the internet and sneek and do my instants.
 
I know somebody (hey Gen :wave:) who carries her laptop to work and has to be right up next to the window to pick up the wi-fi signal to sweep.
 
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