is this legal?

[Onionboy]

damnit!

i wrote a huge reply to all of this, then flashkit bloody deleted my message for having too many bloody icons!!!

grrrrr!!!!!!!

how annoying!



i cant be arsed to write all what i did. but basically i said :

not sure if company are putting cctv up or not (boss was in meeting all day)

i now have a new computer.
p4 1.5gb ram, 256mb graphics beast

spent all day setting up computer so didnt do much work.
got given the brief today to redesign the cheap.co.uk network (about 140 websites)

in response to the people saying i should walk out... i cant.
many reasons... i need the money, its hard to find design jobs, i finished uni last year and i need a stable job for at least 1 years commercial experiance (im a newbie )
also, the people where i wortk are great... when i joined i hardly knew any code... now some of them have taught me html in depth, and im learning javascript and more actionscript... and soon im going to be starting on php, asp and xml.
so the place does have its advantages, plus im learning masses of information about optimizing websites as i work in the same office as beyondcom which are a site optimization company.

the only big drag to the company is the way the boss treats people... other than that im finding it a good company to work for... and i think i can cope with 1 man being mean out of a whole company of people.

i basically just need the years exp so i can move up with my career... ive got the degree but most london companies want proven exp too which is hard to start out in.

but i like your idea gerbs :P
im gonna have a think about that one

[PAlexC]

Wait, this isn't a company-wide policy? This is just your boss?

Go over his head.

Do you think someone who is mistrustful of his direct reports should be allowed to manage people? You're not exactly dock workers.

Sorry, but he's just poisoning the company by saying that no one is to be trusted. I for one would make a stink.

[Onionboy]

actually gerbs i just remembered. i was listening to 'gay bar' on my head phones a week or so ago when i suddenly screamed out 'start a nuclear war'
i didnt realise i shouted it so loudly, but the whole office of people were staring at me.

makes me wonder if i should do that each day lol


and then there are the days when i listen to chris rock etc on the radio and cant help but burst into laughter... everyone thought i was mad staring at html whilst bursting in tears of laughter.. they eventually found out i was listening to the radio on my headphones after about a week.

that was an amusing time.

[Onionboy]

Originally posted by PAlexC
Wait, this isn't a company-wide policy? This is just your boss?

Go over his head.

Do you think someone who is mistrustful of his direct reports should be allowed to manage people? You're not exactly dock workers.

Sorry, but he's just poisoning the company by saying that no one is to be trusted. I for one would make a stink.

go over his head??

to who?

he owns the company.
he is the head... the man with the money.

there are other partners but they dont have as much say as him.

[PAlexC]

Ah. I see.

Well, then he's a moron for thinking that's how to manage skilled developers.

[Onionboy]

Originally posted by PAlexC
Ah. I see.

Well, then he's a moron for thinking that's how to manage skilled developers.

yep pretty much.
im going to see how it goes next week, then possible ask if i can have some sort of meeting with him to discuss things.

hopefully he wont go ahead with these plans... but who knows!

[ViRGo_RK]

And yes, such software exists. There are even devices that fit in between your PS/2 Keyboard cable and the PS/2 port that can record what you type.

We have those at school.

As luck would have it, I am the only one that uses the computer assigned to me. No one in the other periods use it, as their classes are smaller.

So, I knicked it. Placed it on the teacher's computer.

It appears that the most common thing for him to type is his password and the word "teen".

[hurricaneone]

Originally posted by ViRGo_RK
It appears that the most common thing for him to type is his password and the word "teen".

LOL

At least one person looks to be getting an A in that class.

Originally posted by PAlexC
Ah. I see.

Well, then he's a moron for thinking that's how to manage skilled developers.

Indeed, I'll go one further and say that he is a moron for even thinking that owning the company actually makes him qualified to manage people.

The one thing I notice is that Onionboy has plentyof interesting stuff to do, so perhaps for him at least, he'll not have to worry about downtime and getting caught kicking back.

(Sounds like study hall in junior high)

Me on the other hand? I was always the guy goofing off when the manager walked in (when you goof off 90% of the time, the odds are pretty good that'll happen), so it's sure I'd be playing Doom when the camera swept over my work station.

[PAlexC]

Originally posted by hurricaneone
... so it's sure I'd be playing Doom when the camera swept over my work station.

Office surveilance and low-end video hardware? Wow, I feel for you man.

I pity the worker who can't even slack-off in OpenGL.

[hurricaneone]

Originally posted by PAlexC
Office surveilance and low-end video hardware? Wow, I feel for you man.

I pity the worker who can't even slack-off in OpenGL.

Somewould say that I was goofing off, but the wise man, the thinking man would have known that all I was doing was trying to lift the abysmal office morale.

Narrow-minded fools.



Anyway, every day that I don't cave and go back to working for 'the man' is another day that I can slack all I want with no reprecussions.

(almost 4 years now).

[ViRGo_RK]

At least one person looks to be getting an A in that class.

*cough* Blackmail *cough*

[hurricaneone]

Show your boss this article, Onionboy.

I'd be interested to hear what he has to say about it, unless of course what he has to say is completely predictable.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3247595.stm