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I am only the only one out there that advocates listening to radio, either online or over the air, in defiance of the boss. I was driving today through the eastern USA, tuning through the local stations, and I actually heard one radio station advocate listening to their online simulcast, in defiance of one's boss. And one DJ even said to use a proxy server to cover your tracks. There is nothing in the FCC regs. that prohibit a station from advocating listening from work in defiance of the boss or giving info on how to do it. So neither the station, nor the DJ, were violating any laws broadcasting such information, as there is no FCC rule against it.

And he's not the first over-the-air personality I have hears advocate that. Some years ago on the West Coast, there was one sports personality working two jobs. One of them was his sports talk show in the evening, the other was an office job during the day. This personality some years ago advocated using open proxies, becuase he was doing this from his other job, to look at sports websites and get ready for what he was going to talk about on his radio job that night, and he once boasted that the boss as his OTHER job would NEVER catch him, becuase he was tunnelling out to his cable modem connection, on what was then known as @Home, to get to the sites he needed to access to get ready to go on the air that evening. He boasted some years ago that by using an encrypted tunnel, the boss at his day job would NEVER know what he was up to becuase the traffic outbound to his @Home cable modem service was encrypted, and, therefore, could not be interecepted by the network admins at his day job, and they would never know he was looking at sports sites, in defiance of company filtering policy.

IN short, there are others out there that advocate listening from work in defiance of the boss. I am not the first, and will likely not be the last.

Reply to
chilly8
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You are the only person I know that Advocates VIOLATING COMPANY POLICY - and that makes you dishonorable and unethical.

Reply to
Leythos

you do know that if you sign a workcontract you agree with the company policy and if you do this ... you breach contract and thus are a target for judicial punishment. and if you are a USA citizen that's usually very costly

Reply to
goarilla

At least in Germany the work contract doesn't even need to explicitly cover this. For slight violate of the implicit trust agreement to do your work properly you receive a warning, and the next time you get busted you're fired. For strong violations the warning can be omitted.

Just in recent case at a building company the computer of a worker was found to contain a lot of pornography. But not just that, he used paid overtime to do the work that should have done in his normal time. He never got any explicit introduction to the computer, and neither any policy regarding computer usage. And Germany in quite lax in that way, it is commonly agreed that unless it has been explicitly forbidden, a small amount of time on the net for purely personal stuff has to be tolerated. Now what he did was strong violating the trust, and thus his firing without any warning was judged as legal.

Reply to
Sebastian G.

There are many people in this world who advocate breaking the law or violating company policy. That does not excuse the act itself, or advocating the act. If you violate company policy, you deserve to be fired. If you steal from the till, that is still stelaing even if somebody advocates it, and even if you can not be detected. If you waste your time when you should be working, that is stealing, in a different form. If you prepare for job #2 on hours you are paid for job #1, that is stealing.

8 IN short, there are others out there that advocate listening from work

There will always be dishonest people in the world. None of them would last a week working for me. I don't need policies and filtering to make dishonest people less dishonest. I simple know what my employees are doing hour to hour, and I know how much work to expect of them in a shift. If they exceed expectations, they can have time to play.( I prefer they go home early to be with their families rather than do something at work which they won't/can't do at home) If they play first and don't produce, I would know very quickly and they would be gone.

On the matter of firing for cause, minor violations require 2 warnings, and firing on the 3rd offence. Major items allow for instant dismissal.

Doesn't matter if you can do it undetected, it is still wrong.

Stuart

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Stuart Miller

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