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I want you all to help me go around my company's internet security measures.
Here's the deal: Normally I'm a stickler for the rules, but my work has recently imposed some COMPLETELY unfair rules on me and my coworkers, one of which SEVERELY limits the amount of time we can spend. My job at the paper involves a lot of waiting, and can be up to 16 hour days if things are disastrous enough--but apparently aside from my lunchbreak I am not entitled to do anything at all but work. I know it sounds perfectly reasonable but there are numerous reasons why I don't think its fair to me and my coworkers--one being the federal law here in the US that says for every 4 hours of work time, you are entitled to a 15-minute PAID break. Theoretically this means that aside from my lunch hour I'm entitled to at least bare minimum a half hour of internet usage. The problem is our company does not seem to be very intelligent about how it goes about watching us.
All they do is time us. Which is retarded because we are designing newspaper pages and have to use the internet constantly, or oftentimes are interrupted from a break where it's okay to use the net in order to deal with some catastrophe, during which we minimize what we're doing, only to get blamed for being on the internet all day long.
Long story short is, my company has installed an authentication server login that we have to activate each time we go onto the internet. It logs everywhere we go, and it alerts our bosses and the IT staff if we go to any questionable sites--an alert which is apparently triggered by ESF. The filters and monitors are triggered by text, and by sites refreshing (i.e., every time I click a thread, then click reply, then click back, etc.) so just coming to this forum and reading a handful of posts can become a noteworthy amount of hits.
They wanted us to do some absurd **** where we write down every moment we go on the internet. Rather than be bothered, most of us have just stopped entirely--nobody wants to lose their jobs over something this stupid (which they did threaten us with...because they think seeing me on ESF for a half hour is a half hour of time I don't deserve to be paid to be there). In a way they are right, but like I said--I'm often kept there a minimum of 12 hours. I bought a new car for this job. I drive 30 miles to and from work for this job, meaning my 12 hour day easily becomes a 14 hour day. My girlfriend's about to break up with me because we never see each other, I'm completely exhausted by it, and it is also severely affecting my band's schedule. I think I deserve ten ****ing minutes on the internet every few hours.
So the bottom line here is I am DESPERATELY looking for ways to defeat the company's ability to view where I'm going. One way I found that might work is the site http://collegepie.com/proxy/index.php, which is basically a java-based proxy server. But admittedly, I don't know much about how this stuff works. For all I know, they'd still see me on that particular site for a noteworthy amount of time, and then on checking it, find out what it is and fire my ass. I also thought of other means--including using my own computer as a proxy, or logging on through the terminal servers' desktop internet access (figuring they're less likely to pay attention to the terminal's internet usage, then my actual computer's). But again, I don't have a lot of experience with this kind of thing. All I know is that browsing through different browsers doesn't seem to work, and while it's automated when logging from a PC, the macs require us to use netscape first and type in our logins before ANY browser will work.
Times like now I wish I was better friends with Kurt, heh.
At any rate I'm sure most of us who've worked in oppressive environments understand where I'm coming from. My department MAKES THE ACTUAL NEWSPAPERS and yet we get treated like complete garbage (after winning the papers all kinds of layout and design awards, to boot). I just want things to be fair for those of us who work super hard every week. If you've got any suggestions and feel like kicking a ****headed republican newspaper tycoon in his wallet, feel free to drop a line.
If none of this works, I think you'll all be happy to know I intend to log onto multiple computers and go to the website detailing the federal "15 minute paid break every four hours" law and leave them up ALL WEEKEND LONG. Maybe then they'll get the hint.
Here's the deal: Normally I'm a stickler for the rules, but my work has recently imposed some COMPLETELY unfair rules on me and my coworkers, one of which SEVERELY limits the amount of time we can spend. My job at the paper involves a lot of waiting, and can be up to 16 hour days if things are disastrous enough--but apparently aside from my lunchbreak I am not entitled to do anything at all but work. I know it sounds perfectly reasonable but there are numerous reasons why I don't think its fair to me and my coworkers--one being the federal law here in the US that says for every 4 hours of work time, you are entitled to a 15-minute PAID break. Theoretically this means that aside from my lunch hour I'm entitled to at least bare minimum a half hour of internet usage. The problem is our company does not seem to be very intelligent about how it goes about watching us.
All they do is time us. Which is retarded because we are designing newspaper pages and have to use the internet constantly, or oftentimes are interrupted from a break where it's okay to use the net in order to deal with some catastrophe, during which we minimize what we're doing, only to get blamed for being on the internet all day long.
Long story short is, my company has installed an authentication server login that we have to activate each time we go onto the internet. It logs everywhere we go, and it alerts our bosses and the IT staff if we go to any questionable sites--an alert which is apparently triggered by ESF. The filters and monitors are triggered by text, and by sites refreshing (i.e., every time I click a thread, then click reply, then click back, etc.) so just coming to this forum and reading a handful of posts can become a noteworthy amount of hits.
They wanted us to do some absurd **** where we write down every moment we go on the internet. Rather than be bothered, most of us have just stopped entirely--nobody wants to lose their jobs over something this stupid (which they did threaten us with...because they think seeing me on ESF for a half hour is a half hour of time I don't deserve to be paid to be there). In a way they are right, but like I said--I'm often kept there a minimum of 12 hours. I bought a new car for this job. I drive 30 miles to and from work for this job, meaning my 12 hour day easily becomes a 14 hour day. My girlfriend's about to break up with me because we never see each other, I'm completely exhausted by it, and it is also severely affecting my band's schedule. I think I deserve ten ****ing minutes on the internet every few hours.
So the bottom line here is I am DESPERATELY looking for ways to defeat the company's ability to view where I'm going. One way I found that might work is the site http://collegepie.com/proxy/index.php, which is basically a java-based proxy server. But admittedly, I don't know much about how this stuff works. For all I know, they'd still see me on that particular site for a noteworthy amount of time, and then on checking it, find out what it is and fire my ass. I also thought of other means--including using my own computer as a proxy, or logging on through the terminal servers' desktop internet access (figuring they're less likely to pay attention to the terminal's internet usage, then my actual computer's). But again, I don't have a lot of experience with this kind of thing. All I know is that browsing through different browsers doesn't seem to work, and while it's automated when logging from a PC, the macs require us to use netscape first and type in our logins before ANY browser will work.
Times like now I wish I was better friends with Kurt, heh.
At any rate I'm sure most of us who've worked in oppressive environments understand where I'm coming from. My department MAKES THE ACTUAL NEWSPAPERS and yet we get treated like complete garbage (after winning the papers all kinds of layout and design awards, to boot). I just want things to be fair for those of us who work super hard every week. If you've got any suggestions and feel like kicking a ****headed republican newspaper tycoon in his wallet, feel free to drop a line.
If none of this works, I think you'll all be happy to know I intend to log onto multiple computers and go to the website detailing the federal "15 minute paid break every four hours" law and leave them up ALL WEEKEND LONG. Maybe then they'll get the hint.
