How I Skive Off WorkAdmit it. No one does any work these days. It's all looking at crappy websites with your thumb hanging over alt tab incase the boss walks over. Tell us your best methods of skiving, and any resultant incidents. (Maybe your slacking off has got someone sacked, or resulted in a large scale industrial accident.)
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rob, Wed 27 Apr 2005, 15:53)
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Until I had broadband at homeI used to spend extraordinary amounts of time trying to find ways to cirumvent the firewall and do some music downloading. Audiogalaxy was great, but that closed of course. Then I moved on to using Kazaa with a variety of firewall tunneling programs, but all the tunnelers eventually either capped the bandwidth or started charging. So I started using Oth.net to search download sites instead.
That worked fine until one day I managed to hit an FTP site that seemed to have a virtually unlimited bandwidth capacity. Being an idiot, I was just pleased to be able to do some speedy downloading. Until, inevitably, my boss came to see me. Seems my computer had be using about 75% of the pipe coming in to the office, in spite of the 1000 odd other internet users here ...
Still not sure how I didn't get sacked. I promised not to do it again of course, but what I really did was go and get myself an FTP client on which I could set a transfer speed limit.
(, Tue 3 May 2005, 10:14, Reply)
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