Unfair treatment at work

garth · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Karma :

Hi

Just had a week off work. On my return to work my background on my laptop had been changed from a piccy of my bike to a plain grey background (no biggy) but also websites such as Facebook, Hotmail, BCF, basically everything that I'd go on before work or on my lunch, have been blocked. No-one elses computers are like this, because I've seen people on hotmail/messenger neither of which I can have.

It's a small company with one in particular IT guy who is moving to France soon therefore leaving the job.

Not really enjoying the job anyway, but do a fair amount of work, and would be missed if I left.

What to do? Have a word? Leave it until said IT guy goes?

Ta
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LeeR · World Chat Champion Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Karma :

Personally I'd have a word, as others appear to have privileges but you don't it could be personal, it could be the I.T. support guy is an arse. However, you could be opening a can o'worms here, use of e-mail, internet and the like is at your employers discretion. If you push it they could withdraw everyone's access or monitor everything and implement a policy and that's the last thing you want. A lot of companies have corporate outlines for wallpaper and screen-savers etc... so before you do ask check to see if your contract of employment or employees handbook mentions it.
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iooi · Super Spammer Joined: 14 Jan 2007 Karma :

Have a word and ask why things have changed.

Maybe they have tracked some stuff back.

I don't know what sort of data you carry on the laptop, but if its got any company details of clients or such then programs like messenger etc are a security risk.

The company has to have a policy of what and what you are not allowed to do with their equipment and what internet access they allow
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garth · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Karma :

I have no doubt in that it is a personal matter. The IT guy has never liked me, not alot I can do about that, I'm always pleasant.

Everyone has their own background. Nothing strange about that. It wasn't offensive, it's my bike FFS.

No doubt he has checked my history online etc. When I joined the company HE told me that no websites were banned etc because he did not like that working atmosphere. I could understand it if I had hotmail running 24.7 on a seperate window, but it was literally once in the morning (before work - I used to arrive early, not anymore Laughing

) on my lunch break and then right at the end of the day.

I'd hardly consider that to be excessive.

At the end of the day he is leaving soon, and more fool him, because as he checks my history again he will soon find out that he neglected to block fish4jobs and Monster.

Surprise, cockface!
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MaybeGuy · Super Spammer Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Karma :

IT guys are pretty low down on the heirachy scale.

go higher.
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iooi · Super Spammer Joined: 14 Jan 2007 Karma :

With a excuse like that sounds like he did not know how to do it....
Now he has a new job maybe he has to learn and you are the crash test dummy hes testing his new found knowledge on.
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garth · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Karma :

He knows his stuff, he's just an A hole.
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UnknownStuntm... · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Karma :

Yeah, if I were you I'd be careful and bide my time until the bloke goes. If he really wanted to be an ass, he could make stuff up and get you in deeepshiiiiit.

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Dragonfly · Super Spammer Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Karma :

The IT geek is being a prick and is sitting back laughing probably to see how long it takes to to bring up the matter while everyone around you surfs the web. Is there a way you can unblock it yourself? I guess you would if you could though but if you did or could get it ublocked that would be great as then he cant really come back and say something when everyone else is at it.

be sneaky here and careful. play dumb if you have to, Wink

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Finglonga · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Karma :

Maybe worth trying This. Thumbs Up

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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

USB pen drive browser?

https://www.opera-usb.com/index.htm

Or if you're being particularly sneaky, an entire, DVD/USB bootable operating system that runs on the RAM.
https://www.puppylinux.org/
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neil. · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Feb 2008 Karma :

Or do what I do, remotely access your home PC via something like VNC and surf from your own machine at home in a window. Razz

That way, you aren't technically using their connection to access these sites. Good for that lunch time pr0n fix...
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MarJay · But it's British! Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Karma :

GARTH:

Almost guaranteed some twunt has remoted into your PC and changed the 'hosts' file.

Go to 'run'.

Type 'drivers'

In the folder that opens will be a folder called 'etc'. Open this. Open the file that is called 'hosts' in Notepad (it has no file extension, so it won't be hosts.txt or anything - just hosts).

it should loke something like this:

tutton · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Karma :

People have outlined the ways to do it,

Proxy - although i dont think that used to work with onlineMSN.

USB browser - worked a treat when we had a built in school blocker

Another thing i did was got a mates username and password when they locked me off and used there's they never found out about that, not sure if your system makes you login but its a possibility i suppose.
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chris-red · Have you considered a TDM? Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Karma :

I use logmein to access stuff I have been blocked from, it's remote access for dummies.
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