ARRG Can work get any more frustrating!?!?!???
It’s just starting to bug me. I mean sure we were told to not surf the internet while we were at work, and that everything on our computers were monitored. Like our e-mail, and our “turbo notes” (it’s the company messaging system, it sucks hardcore) and this that and the other. Our phone messages are tapped too if anyone’s wondering.
So I don’t know, I would go online if I wanted to surf the company website because I ran out of work (it happens quite often ) and sometimes I would go online if I needed to look up a city when I’m trying to price all the trucking companies that we have to deal with. Because say Ajax… they get charged for Toronto’s rate because it’s close. But someone who doesn’t know Ajax wouldn’t know that. And since we ship things all across Canada there’s a lot of cities that I don’t know so I would have to look up. And other than that, I can count TWO times I’ve used the internet and were on non-business sites. One to print a copy of the pledge form for my Polar Bear Dip, and once to show my coworker the website of the old company I worked for.
And last week we got this e-mail. The dude who like runs IT I guess, he’s installed some software to monitor our internet. And to monitor our internet, we need a login. And to get a login we have to ask for one. And all of our logins will only allow us to access the company website and nothing else. And if we need something else unlocked we have to send him the website address, and why we need it unlocked. He will then DECIDE whether or not it’s a business necessity and decide whether or not to unlock it.
I mean that’s pretty shitty. It’s not like anyone is going to say “Hey can you unlock Hotmail?” or “Hey can you unlock this porn site?” for obvious reasons, so why must there be a decision to be made that includes a detailed description of why we need these sites? “Hi I need the UPS site unlocked” Is it not obvious that it’s because that person handles shipping, and therefore uses the UPS site??
Even better. I replied to the e-mail the day I got it, saying I needed my login, and that I needed google maps unlocked because I use it to help people with their invoices and various accounts payable duties. And I heard nothing back.
And in that time my boss asked me to check out the company site because someone messed something up and he’s hoping I can fix it (I’m not sure if I know how, but whatever) and since I have no login I can’t check it.
So a week after I sent my first e-mail, I sent a second one going “Hey, I still need my login, I don’t care if you don’t unlock the google site, but the owner of the company wants me to check something so I at least need access to THAT” and what a freaking surprise, I got my login within like… an hour.
I hate business that runs that way. And I hate pulling or going over rank on people like that. Reminds me of that promotions company that kept trying to avoid my e-mails until I would e-mail everyone I could in the company saying “Hey I haven’t heard from this person and she said she would get back to me. Do you know where she is?”
ARRGH!
