How do you hide SDN at work? Ever been caught?

[americanidiot]

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I was wondering if anyone has been caught cruising the forums while at work. I haven't yet (knock on wood) but I have had some close calls. I always keep an excel spreadsheet open on my desktop in case people come close enough to see what I'm actually doing. It's best if the excel file has tons of numbers and you're wearing your best "number-crunching" face. I work in a medical lab where I have tons of downtime while doing western blots, so I have to fill it somehow. 🙄

 

[medicomel]

I was wondering if anyone has been caught cruising the forums while at work. I haven't yet (knock on wood) but I have had some close calls. I always keep an excel spreadsheet open on my desktop in case people come close enough to see what I'm actually doing. It's best if the excel file has tons of numbers and you're wearing your best "number-crunching" face. I work in a medical lab where I have tons of downtime while doing western blots, so I have to fill it somehow. 🙄

i always have it open, but i adjust the SDN window so that at any point, a mouseclick right outside of the window will put me back into whatever it was i was working on...mainly excel. That immediately minimizes the display, and it beats doing the ctl/alt/delete function, in which fumbling and screwing up is inevitable.

😉

 

[DoctorFunk]

I was wondering if anyone has been caught cruising the forums while at work. I haven't yet (knock on wood) but I have had some close calls.

Fortunately I work in a lab where everyone has at least one favorite diversion, whether it be surfing SDN, shopping online, or drinking Jagermeister in their office. We have a pretty firm "Don't ask, don't tell" policy in place.

 

[Benign_foodtube]

Dang, I work in a busy ER in Cleveland, and we have the roving wireless laptops that we use for registration. I surf this stuff all day, and have recently been busted a couple of times. Fortunately, I recently had a altercation with my supervisor, asked for arbitration, and "won" it, so now she is kinda scared of me. So she notices it but doesn't really say anything.

Getting busted by my bosses boss, though, sux big time. Not much to do but come strapped witha **** eating grin and say "uh, yeah... sorry." Then as soon as they leave you have at least 15 minutes before they come back, so ya hit it again.

 

[ajt2003]

I just keep my office door closed all the time!

That seems to work. Endless hours of surfing! SDNing! It's awesome.

 

[CanIMakeIt]

Always open two programs....one for SDN and the other your actual (bogus) work and if someone comes just use Alt+Tab and it will take you to the work window

 

[PineappleGirl]

I always keep an excel spreadsheet open on my desktop in case people come close enough to see what I'm actually doing. It's best if the excel file has tons of numbers and you're wearing your best "number-crunching" face.

I do the same thing, except instead of Excel I use a page of HTML. Most of my job consists of updating and designing websites, so when I hear someone coming, I just bring up my page of HTML and stare at it intently, like I'm trying to remember some arcane code. Oh yes, I'm very busy, very busy. I kind of wish SDN didn't have some many pictures and icons and stuff. That makes it REAL obvious you're certainly not doing work. But, my little HMTL switcheroo thing has worked fine so far.

 

[DoctorFunk]

I can't wait until those computer units with medical records in clinical settings become standard. It should be great fun trying to keep patients from figuring out that I'm surfing ebay or SDN while taking their medical histories. 😉

 

[Jambi]

Nobody cares what I do at work so long as I'm available when they call me. I sit around until I'm called. My employer doesn't like me walking around naked either, they prefer that I be clothed .

 

[Reckoning]

Always open two programs....one for SDN and the other your actual (bogus) work and if someone comes just use Alt+Tab and it will take you to the work window

Eeeeeeeexcellent! Thanks for the tip. It beats fumbling epileptically for the mouse.

Since I'm already in, getting layed off right now (with severence, mind you) would be totally sweet, so I don't really try to hide anything, including my "everyday is casual day" policy.

 

[EpointH]

Always open two programs....one for SDN and the other your actual (bogus) work and if someone comes just use Alt+Tab and it will take you to the work window

Word to the wise, though -- if you keep two non-work-related things open, and your boss is walking towards you, make sure you don't just alt-tab over to the other one! I've done that before, accidently switched from SDN to my gmail account when one of my supervisors was coming into my cubicle. She saw it, but it's ok, because she's been planning her whole wedding from work. 😉

 

[PineappleGirl]

my "everyday is casual day" policy.

Right on! 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍

And congrats on your acceptances.

 

[bridge01]

Always open two programs....one for SDN and the other your actual (bogus) work and if someone comes just use Alt+Tab and it will take you to the work window

this is great! i'll use it in the future. 😀

 

[8744]

I was wondering if anyone has been caught cruising the forums while at work. I haven't yet (knock on wood) but I have had some close calls. I always keep an excel spreadsheet open on my desktop in case people come close enough to see what I'm actually doing. It's best if the excel file has tons of numbers and you're wearing your best "number-crunching" face. I work in a medical lab where I have tons of downtime while doing western blots, so I have to fill it somehow. 🙄

I just kept another window open to a porn site and switched to it if somebody came around.

 

[Davina3000]

Since I'm already in, getting layed off right now (with severence, mind you) would be totally sweet, so I don't really try to hide anything, including my "everyday is casual day" policy.

Awesome. 👍 I'm with you on this one.

I'm pretty sure my boss thinks that SDN is an email account...she's walked in several times and doesn't seem to care.

 

[opinionkitten]

i have a desk with my back to the doorway so i can never really tell when someone is going to walk behind me. ive stopped even trying to avoid getting caught...my job gives me two hours of work or so a day to actually do so i figure i dont even have to be covert. I had a ten minute long conversation yesterday with my supervisor with SDN on my screen. She took a knee by my desk and looked mesmerized by EvoDevo's avatar for a few moments....didnt say a word

 

[cooldreams]

i really like my bosses. they are all great. but i havent told them im planning on going to med sko yet. im planning on waiting and giving them a months notice. in the mean time im doing my best to sort out and organize every little thing i do so when i leave it wont be that hard for them to find a replacement. i have found that i am pretty key to keeping everything running smooth around here though... this should be more like a 2 or 3 person job that i am doing every day... sigh... 60 hour work weeks goodbye, 100 hour study weeks HELLO!!! 😱

 

[cooldreams]

I just kept another window open to a porn site and switched to it if somebody came around.

great idea 🙄

did u hear about all of the companies that are cracking down on employees looking at pornos?? seriously guys.. that stuff is bad...

 

[Sansfrontier]

I work in a lab and was caught once. I really didn't understand why my boss made it a big deal since most people in lab are there using the computer anyways during their downtime. I was waiting on my experiments and left a timer running. When the timer went off, I ran to stop it and left my SDN window up. My boss came to check something on the computer I was using and called me to tell me that he doesn't pay me to come play with computers in his lab
So now, I know how to close my windows everytime I leave the computer

 

[mshheaddoc]

Its call toggling ...


"Alt + Tab" in windows changes windows ... try it!

How the hell else have I racked up 13K posts 😱

 

[Ambs]

I can't wait until those computer units with medical records in clinical settings become standard. It should be great fun trying to keep patients from figuring out that I'm surfing ebay or SDN while taking their medical histories. 😉

I work at a clinic where everything is computer-based. Each of us techs have our own "life book" mini laptop, each work station has a regular computer, and each doctor has a "notebook" laptop to carry around. ALL patient charts and records are scanned in their entirety onto this system and are available to be viewed anywhere, anytime. While rooming a patient, I enter their vitals, medications, and chief complaint directly into my life book, but it's also there for me to sign onto SDN . And if we're all standing around triage, I can log on to SDN, but as soon as someone walks by or looks over my shoulder, I pull up a patient's EKG, the "master list" (our schedule of the day), or anything else work-related. It's great, lol. 👍

 

[Writer1985]

I work for a medical students' group, so SDN is sanctioned as work-related. What wasn't was my habit of signing on to AIM all the time (I bring my laptop to work, so I have AIM on autologin at startup)...especially when a friend IMed me some jokes in poor taste just as my boss came by to drop off a report. I thought my cover was blown, but my boss just remarked "It's nice that your chat program works; I use ICQ and that's blocked here."

 

[Twitch]

Most IT departments now log (and to a certain degree) monitor web usage on company property - similar to email.

You can alt-tab all you want but if your manager wants to see what sites your going to, they can get it.

 

[Dr. Chiquita]

I work in a lab and I have down times when I am waiting for gels to run and whatnot. So I browse SDN. But for some reason, I feel guilty. So I have another window open at all times to click back and forth from. 😳

 

[BAM!]

and this whole time, i've been reading it from home! I never thought about it this way, but you're right! :revelation: I could be getting paid to do this!