Do you IT nerds give a shit if I'm browsing reddit at work?

I browse reddit at work from my work laptop, and 4ch*n/4channel from my phone's data. I show some of my coworkers funny posts from here sometimes, but I'm in Spain so people aren't really familiar with this site and I haven't had anyone ask me yet "sooo, what website is that from?"

This is strangely true. I've met a few devs and systems people who probably don't spend any time outside of work thinking about technology. I don't understand it—it's like becoming a professional chef when you don't really care about food all that much

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i always browsed reddit and 4ch at work when i didn't work from home.
now i do so no cuckmaster to look over my shoulder

I don't think they're necessarily "strict" but I technically work for the government and there are some sites blocked. Never tried to go on porn sites or anything stupid, I just literally have nothing to do 80% or the time.

If they haven't brought it up in the year I've been here, is it safe to assume they don't care that much?

What dept do you work for and how do I get a do nothing job like yours?

>not browsing motherless at work
lmao, your job really sucks

not logging shit is actually super high IQ because it reduces liability on admin and higher ups

if you log and miss somebody doing something you can get in huge shit, if you don't have logs you can legally excuse yourself much more easily

my old work did this for specifically this reason

I also work in government and I often look for solutions to programming problems/other tech related issues on search engines and find my solutions on Reddit sometimes. On that basis, I would argue that me being on Reddit is acceptable (if a situation arose where I had to argue this case).

If you're browsing for recreational purposes and no-one has said anything for a year then I would like to say you are pretty safe. The culture in my organisation is ridiculous and there are a lot of people who don't give a fuck and there are also those who will shoot their legs off to make sure your wages get docked for spending your working hours looking at stuff you shouldn't (this has happened).

So, I would say: just be vigilant and know what your organisations policies are so you can potentially make an argument and don't take the piss by spending 8hrs looking at memes.

People in our organisation abused this freedom and started causing all kinds of problems. Unfortunately, as is the same for most things, the few ruin the fun for the many by being complete cunts.

Hell yeah dude, just run AV and deploy adblocker as policy and you just got rid of 99% of your issues. My old boss was a cool dude.
Nah, you're wrong. Everything worked great, Small / Medium Business with 5 locations across the world with 150 employees. Unfortunately the company eventually outsourced IT to a MSP who didn't really see any function in that same freedom and instead deployed some OpenDNS filtering that made it so those cunts couldn't ruin anything.

Honestly no, if it's not blocked and doesn't throw any flags for porn or something explicit nobody's probably ever going to know.

Unless your organization has 10 people, nobody is scouring browsing history. Now if you get in hot shit and management asks us to take a look at browsing habits and if you're not doing shit all day then that's a different story.

I'm not trying to disprove your point, just stating what happened in our organisation. There are even people in our I.T. dept. who are illiterate enough to install malware ridden software using their elevated privileges.

Not only that but regular users were also storing all of their personal files on work computers and then having fits because I.T. personnel didn't want to be responsible for making sure that their iTunes library was working okay/that they didn't lose their family photos.

The end result was a draconian approach having to be implemented so that these issues could be avoided.

>This is strangely true. I've met a few devs and systems people who probably don't spend any time outside of work thinking about technology. I don't understand it—it's like becoming a professional chef when you don't really care about food all that much
There are some possible options:
a) they really do it for the money only and they were told you can make a living this way
b) they know that sooner or later doing something for money will fuck up doing it as personal pastime and chose to do something that they do not care about. Case in point, I actually know some cooks that do not care about food all that much, and given that being a cook is basically semi-paid slavery it's not all that surprising
c) some people realize that the aera of personal computing has gone to shit (although you could argue that most stuff was garbage "back then" as well) and stopped caring

Ah man, I did have some issues with similar things but they were sparse. IE Company phones needing to be backed up because muh family photos. Also had an issue where we set profiles to backup to network share and people were backing up itunes libraries to the SAN storage.

Most people don't have their work connected to their passion. If people can do that in McDonald, why do you find it strange that they do it in IT which is paid better?

I'm the warehouse manager for a relatively small utility plant. We have a total of one employee in my department, me.

I order shit, take shipments, make sure it's on the shelves, log it and whatnot, but for the most part that takes like 2 hours a day max since I don't constantly have people needing things cause they keep shit on hand in their work trucks.

Gets pretty lonely in here desu though. My only interaction with coworkers is a few times a day when they need stuff, otherwise I'm just alone in my office.

If you browse reddit, I assume you have Grindr installed on your phone.

I would also like to point out that if your management doesn't give you the work to fill your day and doesn't tell you not to browse Reddit then the moment they say, if they ever say, that you aren't supposed to be doing it you could put a spin on it and blame it on them for being inconsistent in their management techniques.

>Do you IT nerds give a shit
IT nerds don't give a shit. HR does, though.

>post yfw using clover on company's open wifi during work hours because you dont want to burn your data plan

Been doing it for 3 years and I almost never put on a VPN.....how fucked am I IT bros? Can they (by they I mean IT guys, not they as in glow-in-the-dark-niggers) tie my personal phone and identity to all the threads Ive lurked in and all the shit Ive posted even if Im using the guest wifi?

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I don't see why they would go to such an extent as to tie such specifics together; Jow Forums is hardly a kiddy-diddler site or responsible for anything else illegal. However, its morals are quite dubious and as such will most likely be frowned upon by anyone who isn't a fellow user.

The likelihood of the possibility of them being able to do what you ask is really down to how long they keep their logs for... A large organisation is, I expect, going to struggle to keeps logs of EVERYTHING that everyone browses to over a whole year. BUT they might be able to see that you have visited x site y times for the past year etc. etc.

Keep doing it, and if someone finds out then tell them they aren't your moral compass and that you didn't even realise you were doing anything wrong because no-one said anything.

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Not only this but if it were my job to report what the organisation sees as wrong-doings then I wouldn't hesitate to regardless of whether I thought it was right. I am not about to lay my job on the line because some other faggot can't be bothered to follow the rules like everyone else.

As long as it's not sucking all the bandwidth or causing problems I don't care what you're looking at. Web browsing is logged but not monitored. Feel free to browse porn if you like, but I'll bust you if you're sucking up a ton of bandwidth or if somebody else sees it. I have the logs. reddit/Jow Forums aren't real bandwidth intensive.

I mean Jow Forums is cancer, just a different kind of cancer compared to reddit.

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For context thousands of people visit my work place each week, I assume at least some of them jump on the public wifi. I work for a county facility in a giant city so it is a monstrous bureaucracy overseeing us all which gives me hope I can slip through the cracks....at the same time because it is the local government sometimes they like setting examples or people are just unlucky. For those of you in IT what are the chances of a big city IT department going through the trouble of looking up the identity of a phone's owner connecting to their network when they oversee tens of thousands of employees? I have no idea what the logs look like if they see just a phone address connecting or do they see the full info of the phone's owner... I have obviously never used the office pcs to browse Jow Forums but I have looked up all sorts of shit on my phone. Truth is I got lazy from my previous job in a university's IT department (im not IT) where I abused the ultra fast internet to download hundreds of music albums, movies, games, etc directly to my office pc but never got called out for it.

>Posting from work wifi now so if you guys see me be nice and come lurk the chans with me dont report me thx

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I hide a small desktop that torrents 24/7 at my company and they don't care

Very comfy

Depends where you work. At my company we don't care at all what you are doing in your office, honestly I feel like its none of my concern unless what you are doing is a security threat to our network.

Other organizations might have much more stringent rules.

I would fire people if I knew they were Redditors.

You'd want that so you have more cocks to suck

Reddit is literally the 18th ranking site on the internet. You'd be firing essentially everyone, including your IT guys. Get over your faggy site wars shit man it's not 2012 anymore.

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is it summer already? Christ, go back to r*ddit you faggot.

If you work for Vox I don't think it's a problem.

based
also holy shit 4 KB, jpeg is amazing

We really don't. I spend a good chunk of my day cruising tech-related subreddits and stackoverflow.

t. gov't IT

I work in a school which has the most absurd Smoothwall blacklist, which by the way applies equally to both staff and pupils, with Reddit being fine but the Smithsonian Magazine, History Today, and various art repository sites being blocked (the former two for being in the "magazines" category, the latter for "non-sexual nudity"). We also have keyloggers with the same triggers as the pupils, as I discovered when an assistant head asked me why I was always typing "kkk" (I was cycling through "Key Stage 3", "Key Stage 4" and "Key Stage 5" in File Explorer).

I should think the truth of the matter is that in any business with more than a few dozen employees using computers, it's too cumbersome for the IT guy(s) to look through people's internet browsing given the volume of HTTP requests generated in that environment, not to mention that a non-negligible proportion of employees browse non-work-related sites anyway, so it's not like your Reddit browsing would stand out. And supposing that an IT guy preferred to spend his time looking through browsing logs to try to catch something particularly egregious out rather than browsing Reddit/HN/SO himself and counting on filters to generate alerts, I'm not sure, at least here in Yurop with the atmosphere created by GDPR, that he'd impress his boss by telling him that he was spending his time snooping on his fellow employees.

dude it's june