Do you go on MSN and facebook etc while at work?

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Okay this has always annoyed me.

I've always had jobs in which I've either never had access to the internet and if I did I was always too busy to just decide I was going to hop on MSN and have a chat with some friends.

And even if I did have the time to do that, my managers wouldn't allow it as it's not classed as working, which is what they're paying you to do.

My friends always leave me messages on facebook in the middle of the day while at work and when I come home I read them and think, 'WTF?'

Some of them are like, 'Hey, what are you doing? I'm just at work bored outta my mind.'

I NEVER have EVER in my life of working, had the chance to be bored outta my mind. <_<

There is always something to do at work and if the managers see that you look bored they'll freakin' give you something to do.

I just don't get how my friends get away with this and why their bosses even employed them and pay them a full time wage if there is simply nothing to do.

Sometimes I find an email or a text on my phone asking me if I have an email account for work and if I do, then I should email them so that we can talk. <_<

What are your thoughts on this?
 
If there is somehting to do, then I'm sure as hell won't get on MSN or anything of the sort, but if there's nothing to if I finished everything I'm supposed to I'd hop onto MSN, etc but never stay long. I would want my managers to catch me online, that wouldn't be great >_>;;
I'd hop on and off but never stay long and of course I'd never get involved too much on the net when I'm at work, not even texting which I do all the man time. Work first, net later. =)
 
If I didn't use msn and internet I'd be even more crazy than I am now, the work I get at most takes 2 hours, on a bad day. lol. So yes I do. Facebook bores me so I barely spend time on that.


There is always something to do at work and if the managers see that you look bored they'll freakin' give you something to do.
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Haha maybe they work at the same place I work.

All my managers and whatnot say is "You'll get something else to do, eventually. just hang tight." One year later, the only extra work I do is other people's work that I've asked to help them with. So it's not like I'm sitting on my ass doing nothing, without telling them. I've told them LOTS of times. The bosses who promised to give me more work have took work from me instead.

I just don't get how my friends get away with this and why their bosses even employed them and pay them a full time wage if there is simply nothing to do.
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I wonder too. I feel guilty about it, and have made half assed jokes that I should just work part time for the job I do *shrug* I don't get it cos my companies made some employees redundant, yet they insist on paying me full time wage when they know full damn well I do nothing most of the time.

I always feel guilty and useless here, but it's not like I haven't tried really. I'd rather be paid to do work, as my work day would go by so much quicker if there was something to do lol
 
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I think you've already ask me this personally. Well our office uses this in terms of inner office communications.. so I'm of course always on it at work. So if you see me on it after work hours, then it's because someone has to ask me a quick question.

I try not to get on MSN out of work though, to not be bothered by questions. (from co-workers)

Facebook is another yes. Why? because we have relatives over fighting in Iraq and so on. So people want to keep in touch and use it as a means to communicate with love ones. I mean minimal usage of course - but I check on it pretty frequently.
 
Msn was blocked where I used to work, and facebook I hadn't even heard of at that point I don't think....

I used to sit on FFF alot though, I had 2 desks, and one was squirreled away round a corner on the admin unit and on quiet days - or if I just fancied a skive Id sit in the shoutbox and natter to Jane..... or I'd be buying shit off ebay, I think I had my ebay account before I even got a pc at home..ohhh thats right, I signed up to it at work and my work email is where I recieved all my ebay bid confirmations and shit, HOW I was never caught out I don't know.....

But yeah, I spent a lot of time skiving off work on the internet. I'd happily trade it for a job now though, Im bored out of my mind at home everyday
 
CERTAINLY NOT! As an upstanding, hardworking role model at my place of employment, I would never even briefly consider tainting myself by going on Facebook during operation hours.

Disgusting. Even thinking about it makes me feel dirty...like I need a shower or something. I'll never gain a managerial position in the lucrative grocery business if I allow myself to be distracted by such things...

It's easier to lie when you're typing instead of speaking.

Honestly, I check my Facebook and email rather frequently while I'm working or in class. I can't spend long periods on it, however. Maybe a minute or two to pull out my phone, go to the web browser, and give things a looksie. Nothing too involved.
 
Personally I think all those kind of sites like MSN and such should be blocked whilst at work unless it is needed for communicating etc.

It just isn't fair that you should get paid for not working.

In my own opinion there should be no such thing as, "I'll go on MSN after I finish my work."

That's just distracting you from what you're meant to be doing because you're eager to do what you want to do.

Also, if you're finished whatever you're meant to be doing, go and ask someone if they need help or something.

There is always plenty to do unless you're working at a sole owned shop or something in which you get one customer a day. >_<

But yeah, that's my thoughts on it. I just think it's what's expected if you are employed anywhere.
 
Heh I do agree with you, I really do. (my msn is blocked, ahem *cough*). It's just for example my place obviously don't give a crap that I'm doing nothing most of the time. I just get told "lucky you"/"must be nice" most of the time, and bosses have done nothing but make promises for more work the entire time I've been here. What can I do? No matter what I decide to do in my "spare" time, I'm doing nothing for them and not cos it's my choice. I ask all the time, and I even do at least two other people's small jobs for them.

This is how it goes if I ask someone if they want help or ask a boss for more work.

Me (to somebody in the office): Do you want any help with anything?
Them: No it's all right, you need to be trained to do what I do / no we work together in (blah blah) so you can't do this task, we need two people to check what we put thru the computer, company rules (I type in data, he double checks it with his own data, so yeah fair.. I can't help him with that) / *gives me the same old thing to type up that takes less than 5 minutes*

Me: I was wondering if there was anymore jobs I could do.
Boss #1: Oh don't worry, we've got plenty planned for you to do.....*snip, insert same old lecture here* yeah plenty to do
*several months later of doing the same old thing*
Me: I was wondering if there was anymore jobs I could do.
Boss #1: Oh don't worry, we've got plenty planned for you to do...
0_0 AARGH

Me: I was wondering if there was anymore jobs I could do.
Boss #2: Ah no worries, there's plenty for you to do.
*waits*
Me: .....

Me: *half joking but still if they answered seriously I prob would* So erm, anything I can do?
Factory worker (who uses big ass machines that make steel parts): LOL

I can't say I don't try. Without my erm, "msn" and internet I'd be spending at least half of my day in a depressing office with no windows & bright flouresent lights, staring at a blank screen, making coffee every now and then (that part's not so bad lol). I'm not skiving from my work, it's done and if somebody asks if I can help them I will. I feel guilty and damned lazy about it, but there isn't anything I can do. I'm just a data entry clerk with no other training *shrug* I think they expect nothing less from me haha
 
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^^ That's terrible!

I'm amazed that they would even keep you on full time if they had no work for you. No offence or anything when I say that, it's just that companies tend to want to save money everywhere.

For instance, at my work at the moment, they've just moved me out to do a new job and my old job is being given to the bookkeeper who also has to do her job as well.

I never even got to do my own job half the time properly because there was just too much too do all the time.

They're being really cheap at my work. They just don't hire any staff and then the staff that they do have end up getting overworked.

It needs to be balanced. You need enough work to get you through the day without getting overworked or getting bored. >_<

I hope work picks up for you soon, otherwise I'd be looking elsewhere.

You never know if they might just make your role redundant and then you'll have nothing. =0
 
No offense taken :) , I don't understand it either. I feel guilty about it too, I'd much prefer to be paid for doing work for my 8 hour day OR just be taken on part time which makes more sense really. They have made people redundant at my place: labourers mainly. When they were discussing who to get rid of, I really expected I'd be the first choice o_0 They've admitted I was only hired to give the bosses less work to do, my job didn't exist a year ago.


It needs to balanced. You need enough work to get you through the day without getting overworked or getting bored.
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Agreed. I don't like sitting back doing nothing while the rest of the guys in my office are run off their feet, doing unpaid overtime (yeah wtf.. my job is to type in their hours so they get paid but the higher ups everytime tell me to take off the overtime). I ask them if I can help but I'm not trained to do the important things they do, and anything I can get off them is only the little jobs they in the end don't have time for.


I hope work picks up for you soon, otherwise I'd be looking elsewhere.

You never know if they might just make your role redundant and then you'll have nothing. =0
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Yeah me too thanks, just finding this job was hard enough. I do live in a crap, dead town and the nearby places for work rarely hire people who can't drive a car (way too pricey 0_0 ) so I'd be stuffed basically.

Before this I had spent 6 months working in a card shop, for only one day a week, before that and in between that job and this I was jobless. I'm used to it I guess, I'm prepared for it and have saved money in the time I've been here. One of my bosses kept saying that office staff are the last to go if they need to get rid of people again, even if my job can be pretty much taken up by someone else. Makes no sense really :S
 
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I go on facebook on my break.
But im a seniour administrator, so if ive not got work to do, then i have staff issues and training to deal with.
so facebook gets about 10 mins from me per day!
 
We don't have any form of internet at work, so no for me. But if we did, I wouldn't do it during work because I know my boss would get under my skin and be monitoring me all the time.
 
I have never had a job in which I was required to sit at a computer all day so I can't say for sure whether I would use MSN or Facebook at work. But I figure that there is a time and a place, I can go on Facebook or MSN at home. Even at Uni I don't like to go on those kinds of things. I don't really think it is appropriate to use Facebook or MSN in the workplace.

But keep in mind that I have never had a job in which I have been required to sit at a computer all day. So I could very well end up browsing Facebook or MSN in the future.
 
Back when i had my desk job yeah i did it alot, my boss didn't mind at all as long as i got my work done. I only got on when i got bored and that was pretty much all the time when i was there.
 
I have not had an office job yet but I would do it if they let me. Sneaking online is not worth the risk of losing my job, especially if it is a well paying one at that, so I wouldn't try it unless they said "do whatever you want as long as the work gets done." If they said that then I would do it after the work is done. Better to have the work done and have free time than to have free time and not get the work done right?
 
When I worked in Borders we had internet access and people ALWAYS used it on tills. You had to delete your history though before your till shift was over. In my current job we dont have internet access which is a good thing cause I dont wanna lose this job lol.
 
Well, I'm answering this for school instead of work, but it's kinda similar I suppose. :wacky:

The school computers have MSN on them, and I tend to use it. I don't see a problem with it as long as I finish my homework too, and I only use it during my free period anyways... I wouldn't use it when I was supposed to be paying attention in class, but during free time I don't see anything wrong with it at all. I don't go on facebook though, I don't even LIKE facebook. xD but MSN... eh. Not too big of a deal... although I think if I was working I wouldn't use it. Job > free period.
 
Unless im on a break I dont realy ever go online and even then its rare....Durring my breaks I even prefer not to since I like the "quite" time to myself or just chitchat with my coworkers...
But unlke most of the office workers whom I see on fbook more than actually doing their work im not sitting on my but all day trying not to look bored.
Most people dont have a great degree of work ethic as well....
But also ive had a few jobs where ive had been given no "breaks" in an 8 hour period so in my defence I also felt it was rather fine if I took a few minuts here and there to chitchat with my friends threw my messengers since I wasnt given my rightfull break...
 
I've never had the opportunity to go online at either job I've had, but even if I did I probably wouldn't. For one, I'd be too afraid of people finding out what websites I was using or getting access to my accounts somehow, and I don't care for them to know any of those things >_> Also, due to market demands and the poor economy, I've always had jobs that have been so tenuous that the only way I've stayed employed is that I'm an extremely hard worker, usually the hardest working person there as far as time spent actually working. I'm even afraid to take a personal phone call or eat a snack, I always have to hide in the back room when everyone else is distracted :jtc: Which tbh is kind of silly around my current work team, since they do all kinds of things like that when they have "nothing" to do; but unlike them my position at my current job is no longer necessary to the company, so my boss has to pretty much fight for me to stay there, and I think it would be insulting to them to be goofing off when they're working so hard to keep me around.
 
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