Internet Addiction can get you fired...... YAYYYYYYYY

[Bling]

http://www.businessweek.com/print/te...214_422859.htm

[Slide On The Ice]

Funny story...

Eckerd had a policy in their photo labs, that no one could access the internet except for work related, yada yada. Well, I had a hotline account that I used as a backup for when my regular email went down. Whatever, the reason isn't important. I needed a name so I gave it "karrazon". That's a woman's name, but not just any woman. Karra Zon is one of the main characters in my as yet unpublished, so far unfinished 9-book sci-fi series. She's like a cross between Sara Conner, Lara Croft, Mcgyver, Sydney Bristow, I just dig the name so I used it. No, no, I wasn't pretending to be a chick, I just used the name which I thought was a cool name, for that account which I only checked sporadically. Well anyhow, they had a policy that they could fire you for logging on to websites un-work related. I was the manager and I was expected to enforce the rule. Fine. I agreed with the policy anyway, because I never surfed on company time. I only checked my email once or twice.

One day my district manager and his boss, the uber-district manager, came for a visit. So I'm talking to my boss and his boss goes to the computer to check his company email. Then he checks the browser history. This was like 6 years ago when I didn't even know that browsers kept a history of your log ons, or how to delete your history.

"Who is karrazon?" he suddenly asked me.
I had no idea what he was talking about. How the hell did he know the name of a character I wrote in one of my stories? Some people in the company knew I was a writer, so did I already have my first fan, who wanted to know more about my stories, which I love to tell? Right. As if.
"Who is karrazon...is she a store employee or a photo employee, and why is she checking her hotmail from your computer?"
Oh shit.
Remember whenever Ralph Kramden got nervous in a confrontation and stuttered, "Humina, humina, humina..."
So I told him to wait till the novel comes out and then pay for a copy like everyone else. Yeah. :P


Okay, so it wasn't funny to the rest of you, but I'm easily amused. ;D

[Bling]

Originally Posted by Slide

Funny story...

Eckerd had a policy in their photo labs, that no one could access the internet except for work related, yada yada. Well, I had a hotline account that I used as a backup for when my regular email went down. Whatever, the reason isn't important. I needed a name so I gave it "karrazon". That's a woman's name, but not just any woman. Karra Zon is one of the main characters in my as yet unpublished, so far unfinished 9-book sci-fi series. She's like a cross between Sara Conner, Lara Croft, Mcgyver, Sydney Bristow, I just dig the name so I used it. No, no, I wasn't pretending to be a chick, I just used the name which I thought was a cool name, for that account which I only checked sporadically. Well anyhow, they had a policy that they could fire you for logging on to websites un-work related. I was the manager and I was expected to enforce the rule. Fine. I agreed with the policy anyway, because I never surfed on company time. I only checked my email once or twice.

One day my district manager and his boss, the uber-district manager, came for a visit. So I'm talking to my boss and his boss goes to the computer to check his company email. Then he checks the browser history. This was like 6 years ago when I didn't even know that browsers kept a history of your log ons, or how to delete your history.

"Who is karrazon?" he suddenly asked me.
I had no idea what he was talking about. How the hell did he know the name of a character I wrote in one of my stories? Some people in the company knew I was a writer, so did I already have my first fan, who wanted to know more about my stories, which I love to tell? Right. As if.
"Who is karrazon...is she a store employee or a photo employee, and why is she checking her hotmail from your computer?"
Oh shit.
Remember whenever Ralph Kramden got nervous in a confrontation and stuttered, "Humina, humina, humina..."
So I told him to wait till the novel comes out and then pay for a copy like everyone else. Yeah. :P


Okay, so it wasn't funny to the rest of you, but I'm easily amused. ;D

;D

[Slide On The Ice]

Maybe I shouldn't have posted that. ;D

[Chica]

so u work at Eckerd? lol

[Slide On The Ice]

Originally Posted by Chica

so u work at Eckerd? lol

I did for 10 years, and then over a year with CVS when they bought Eckerd. I quit last December, 05. Why do you ask, do you work there, or have you?