Hosting Sites Blocked At Work?
polycounter lvl 11
Hey PC,
Posting to ask about what sites (other than the NSFW sites of course) are blocked at work. It seems like for the most part, it's just dropbox is blocked (due to file sharing). Any others?
Posting to ask about what sites (other than the NSFW sites of course) are blocked at work. It seems like for the most part, it's just dropbox is blocked (due to file sharing). Any others?
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yeah same where i work
Yea, sorry, I was a bit vague. Mostly curious about game devs/hiring managers: if you can't even view someone's work, then it makes it that much harder to hire them.
@ Ravenslayer, yikes! what kind of sites are those (email, news, and maybe weather?)
I worked at a company that had a monitoring software that recorded keystrokes, took screen shots every 10 secs, tracked how long you had something open, what sites you were on etc and had HR go through all of that for certain employees he thought might be screwing around. The owner was paranoid and didn't trust anybody least of all the software team and made life a living hell.
Managers usually have access though. Talk about class hierarchy hehehe
The Mad Artist: crazy shit. Blocking is tolerable, but monitoring like that sucks. Wouldn't work for a place like this.
Hell just today I was looking for a new method on how to do something and a quick google search returned the result where in the office it might take other people time and shit to explain or show me and that is 2 peoples time not being used productively.
I had this arguement at a prior job when we were discussing things on a managerial level. It got quite annoying trying to explain that the net isn't just a resource for nonsense.
People here have very little regard and/or knowledge about IP law. It's just so common place that people take stuff from the net, so the easiest way to avoid trouble for our clients is to block the net (yeah, I see the irony of adding another firewall on top of the "Great Firewall"). That ensures nobody takes references or textures from Google & Co and uses them in their art. Or avoiding that stuff leaks out of the company. Clients like EA, Activision, etc. won't be happy with us if that happens.
Their property, their rules.
You can however; buy a decent laptop and get 3G network for full internet access that is not monitored by the company.
Than again, that may cost you $700.00++ in the addition of $50.00 per month for wireless internet. =\
I'd go mad wthout the net access. Need it for documentation, but also because code compiles, lighting builds and version control synchs can sometimes take quite some time.