if 1 person per business per day has a 15 minute dump @ work it costs the australian economy 1.2 billion in lost productivity and each employer $1250 per year.. thats the result of a report Surf Control an internet security company released today.

because that's hardly news worthy they based their report around one employee per firm spending one hour per day using facebook.com

you can read all about it in articles screaming about facebook costing us 5 billion dollars in lost productivity.

yep, imagine what it's like for smokers taking 3/4 smoke breaks per day out of lunch hour

why is everyone gotta be hating on facebook

it never did nothing wrong to no one

f*** yeah remove toilets and the internet

WTF is this facebook I keep hearing about? Is it like an adult myspace or something?

Wasting time at work ftw though! Nothing beats Australia Post, we usually have a 2.5 - 3 hour break (all paid) each day, a lot of people have a sleep, others watch a movie.

u should sign up for a look chubsy!

do it, you can post images of your knife collection

Facebook is pretty cool. Can be used to integrate into all kinds of other sites and with mini apps, which you can then tie in to RSS fees etc.

Eg, even though I can do it with Digg anyway, I can get feeds of all actions friends make on digg. Or they can just post general status updates and scribbles, which I can have feeds and widgets monitoring.

A 15 minute dump? What's the rush?

Grab yourself a magazine and get comfortable.

i find that facebook makes me MORE productive.

come join the qgl group so that we can hate on the facebook-haters.

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What, you mean it gives you the s***s?

yep, imagine what it's like for smokers taking 3/4 smoke breaks per day out of lunch hour

Imagine what it's like for the much larger population group that take 3 to 4 coffee breaks a day.

Imagine what it's like for the much larger population group that take 3 to 4 coffee breaks a day.

you can't get cancer from secondary smoke

Coffee drinkers are the worst kind of addicts, they whinge more then hard drug users. Every bloody morning they just whinge and cry about being tired and needing a coffee. Harden up, if you need drugs to wake up in the morning, you got a problem.

Also smokers need to DIAF, they are the scum of society.

hehe, our coffee breaks at work ended up being reduced to two, after we were totally abusing the system and having up to 4 breaks a day

now back to 2

I can have as many breaks in the day as I want.

So ner.

I'm not wasting my boss' time by browsing QGL at all. In fact I'm more productive. So research is therefore wrong and I win

you can't get cancer from secondary smoke

It's not like they are sitting in the kitchenette every 40 minutes smoking it up.

facebook off hahaha

coffee breaks? cant people work and drink their f***en coffee at the same time?

i like to go outside for my coffee break

I take a short lunch and don't 'break' to have a coffee.

But I bludge on QGL at work a fair bit too :D

yer, i do that as well, and facebook and gmail and ebay

but i still need my coffee breaks

Holy s*** Spook, do you do any work?!

haha, yer, im multitasking baby

protip - dual screen (one is laptop screen) downlow on the desk where only i can see

everyone always sees the work screen with text editor and telnet sessions

im always working hard!

coffee breaks? cant people work and drink their f***en coffee at the same time?

Exactly what I was thinking.

We used to have a coffeee machine that would take a while to use, heat the milk and all that jazz, then the big wigs got wise and got rid of it.

Now we have a fully automated coffee machine, one press for all your favourite coffees, hot milk, fresh coffee beans, the works. Oh and chocolate sprinkles. Can't forget the sprinkles.

Works well but doesn't waste as much time :(

I take ages in the s***ter and have dubbed it my "Splash for Cash".

haha, yer, im multitasking baby

protip - dual screen (one is laptop screen) downlow on the desk where only i can see

everyone always sees the work screen with text editor and telnet sessions

im always working hard!

Are you sure you aren't me spook?

Are you sure you aren't me spook?

i suspect you are me

i find nothing more satisfying than the "overtime turd" where you get paid s***loads for reading new weekly in the can for extended periods

its been some of my favourite times at work evar!

wastebook

That's not my opinion, i just came up with that and thought i should post it before i forget

i find nothing more satisfying than the "overtime turd" where you get paid s***loads for reading new weekly in the can for extended periods

Doesn't beat getting paid double time on a Sunday for watching Scarface in the rec room :)

I make a point of s***ting for at least 30 minutes in my work day. That's $15 out of tax payer money. I love the government.

My little trick is to have a spreadsheet open and if the boss comes by, alt+tab out of explorer into the spreadsheet and pretend I'm researching some new PC parts/upgrades/software licences. Another good trick is to just go for a walk around the building carrying a folder/tape measure/print out. I get my 30 mins of chardio and I look busy.

i can quite definitely state that the biggest waste of time & productivity in the company i work for is bad management. middle managers will spend hours of thier time making insignificant procedural changes which will 'save time & money' in theory & then present them to upper management as a great success! but meanwhile the workers, lacking further instructions from middle management, sit on thier arses doing f*** all waiting for middle management to stop playing with themselves n make some fukn decisions. /vent.

on the upside, i've been given the arvo off on full pay coz i have 4 jobs that are on hold pending middle management decisions. oorrrjeh.

no one in the history of working with computars, has ever successfully alt-tab'ed from something dodgy to something work related and not looked more dodgy than just looking at something dodgy in the first place

^^ is truth.

Even if the screen isn't visible, there is something about the alt-tab action itself that implies that something dodgy is being covered up. Its body language or something, a person alt-tabbing just screams s*** quick close this window!

lies, you had to learn your pro alt tab skillz in high school.

Pro-tabin since 95.

I always get accused of "turning something off" by older people when they walk into the room... but I was just switching windows normally....???

you were or you weren't?
how are we supposed to know anyway?

The ??? didn't mean the previous statement was a question... it was a separate thought altogether

heh

cant people work and drink their f***en coffee at the same time?

not if you work in pc2

I wish there was more articles about how we could all be good corporate citizens. Everyday it seems there is an article telling us how our behavior is bad for business.

^ i hope you aren't reading these articles on work time then

That would mean I would actually be doing something during the day. I have done 3 hours of actual work in 4 days and I have just started a new job. Plus I am too busy stealing s*** from the supply cupboard.

stick it to tha man

I never stick it too anybody I just hold anybody who employs me in contempt. I have stolen countless amounts of drives, cables, monitors, pens, boxes of paper etc the list just goes on. My next goal is too steal a projector from a workplace. Funny thing is I never steal from anybody apart from the hand that feeds. They employ me they pay the price and I will never worry about their feelings or the bottom line, means nothing to me. 12 years and counting of theft, one day I will get caught but its all part of the fun.

I never stick it too anybody

thats right

I never stick it too anybody I just hold anybody who employs me in contempt.

I can see why.

If you have not stolen from your work you should be ashamed.

no, you should not be

no, you should not be

I have witnessed over the years many people steal stuff from the boss. I could not give a s*** about my job or your job it means nothing. People worship their jobs for some strange reason, for me it is money, perving on chicks, an awesome coffee machine, stealing s*** and having long weekends. I love IT, the guys I work with now make my laziness seem very active.

try so hard that you bust a nut, just like a dirty ape

I just had facebook blocked for the people in my office, they were all spending too much time on there.

I still have access though, and of course its on my laptop whilw work related stuff is on my other screen spook style :)

Oh and I always take the paper to the dunny, and every day without fail the receptionist gives me a dirty look when I put the paper back in reception !

I could take a 2 hour dump at work and they'd get no more productivity out of me (for the moment anyway). Since our last project finished, I get paid to come in every day and do nothing until our team is given a new game to work on.

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Oh and I always take the paper to the dunny, and every day without fail the receptionist gives me a dirty look when I put the paper back in reception !

haha, dont you hate that

What really f***s me off is a bloke i work with is on 110k a year. He has a smoke break every hour for a good 15 minutes. And seemingly does nothing at his desk. I work my arse off all day, non smoker and im only on 45k.
I guess he's just smarter than me.

Yep.

if 1 person per business per day has a 15 minute dump @ work it costs the australian economy 1.2 billion in lost productivity

Sorry thats retarded, because you dont take into account any lost productivity that would happen if they held it in all day and were distracted/couldnt concentrate.
I guess you'll counter by saying something like "well they couldnt concentrate on their work because they were thinking of what john might have scribbled on their facebook account" or something.

I dont understand why people need to Steal pens...
Work gives them to me for free. :)

I cant see my Supervisors (I use the term loosely) computer but I swear I can hear him playing Mine Sweeper 1/2 the day >.>

I just go and do a 'Field Check' if I need to waste time (Lack of Office work/frustrated with said supervisor).
That said, I usually have a few plans that do need field checks, I just take longer to make sure I havent missed anything :p

not if you work in pc2

Step out of line and OGTR is coming to get you.

http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,22437742-5012424,00.html

when employees are required to operate at an autonomous level, what c*** of an employer would want to monitor their facebook activity? it's not like it's downloading porn.

as long as the work gets done... also i love how news.com.au 's opinion on facebook changes with the weather.

i believe my work is profacebook*





*well, they havent shut me down yet

just remember, if it isn't blocked, it is endorsed

spook just said that

yes, and i reiterated a concise saying of it.

your gay

you're gay

oh go on with you

what

what

yes

my work doesnt let u access any net except news.com.au

c***s.

what's your work? thats damn tight. not even gov or edu sites?

i access the net from my mobile at work.. i'd complain about working at an internet data center with no internet access except i have mates who work at places that ban phones.. at least here i can surf on my phone.

what data plan do you have to surf on the phone. that must cost megabucks?

I pay $30 a month for a gig on my phone with 3.

i access the net from my mobile at work.. i'd complain about working at an internet data center with no internet access except i have mates who work at places that ban phones.. at least here i can surf on my phone.

haha yer, the ato sarks for internets access

they sure dont mind wasting money on hiring processes and dud IT projects that get shelved after 18 months though and started again

:(

i feel bad for how much money and time the ato wastes;

i pay $20 a month for 500MB with 3. was using optus originally but that hurt too much.

yeah optus is terribad for phone data.