Playing on the Job.

[kristen999]

This is your chance to come clean. You're among friends! I've been wondering about those who have access to the internet at work and how often they take little breaks online.

The poll applies only to those who are not blocked at their job or who obviously use a computer at work.




[Poll #1567456]

Comments

[x-erikah-x.livejournal.com]

I work in two schools now and one of them doesn't allow us to use the computer for personal purposes, but the other one actually has a computer at the classroom which I do use all the time. The only problem that lately it's got a few bugs and is making using it impossible. *iz still waiting for tech support* It's been like that for a month. *cries*

[tinypenny.livejournal.com]

I have to sit at the front desk at a library and they don't care if I am online as long as I answer questions and do other things that fall under my job title. That means that most of the time, I am online:)

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm lucky. As a translator, I work from home. So basically, I'm connected to the net 24-7 - well, that's a lie, I do shut off my computer when I go to bed :P I use Poppy for Windows, so it bleeps whenever I get an email. And every three to four pages that I translate, I check my LJ and Twitter. I need to give my eyes a bit rest after staring at the white page in Word for half an hour.

[wildcat88.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I have a smart phone and am notified whenever I have a new email or Facebook comment. But I still check it during the day to clean out the crap and reply because a keyboard is WAY easier than typing on that little screen.

I have an office and I deliberately turned my screen so only I can see it. That way I look like I'm working hard when I'm really finishing the edits on my ficathon story...

[ldyanne.livejournal.com]

I keep an eye on my email (read check it obsessively all day long), but I am so busy in my job that I can't do anything more than that. I think I could, but in a previous job I hung out at on online discussion board. I never heard a thing about it, but in my current job I don't have near the time for anything like that. Also, I'm kind of obsessive, and I'm afraid if I allowed myself to check LJ or anything like that I would fall into old habits and that way lies unemployment!!

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Heh, I remember how adamant I was when I first started working at jobs where I had email access at my computer station (nearly a decade and a half ago) that I would *never* use it for non-work purposes! I couldn't figure out why anyone would! And I stuck to that for a long time! But somewhere in the first couple years of the 00's, it started creeping in there, and by the time I left my last job, I was checking LJ and my email probably once an hour if not more often. And writing fanfic in a little window minimized at the corner of my screen. Which probably says a lot about my last job ...

I sometimes look back on it and hope that I managed to clean up all the evidence from my computer before I left. :D Not that it would matter, really, but I'm still friends with my old boss, and I'd hate for her to know what I got up to!

[littleeva.livejournal.com]

Hard to read slash at work though. I wait until I'm home to read that.

[parisindy.livejournal.com]

for me it really depends... i work on projects.. when i am on projects i am very very busy.. in between projects we can get very slow then i am online more then i should be

[tielan]

Honestly, the reason I don't spend more time on LJ etc., is because work has it banned. Either they haven't worked out Dreamwidth yet, or they're not blocking it, because I have access to DW - which is why I tend to post from over there now.

It's probably just as well - I post on LJ and I get quite a few comments that I can't respond to until I get home. I post on DW and I get only a couple of comments and it's not too much time to answer them.

I write fanfic while at work - lunchtimes, and sometimes when I'm doing documentation and am bored. Mostly, though, I'm programming - and if it's engaging developmental programming, I'm more than happy to solve problems. If I have a story to nut out, I sometimes scribble down notes on the story on paper, like I'm making notes for work things.

But yes, it is hard to get in the proper headspace at work for fanfic - although I imagine it's easier for me: I don't usually write het or slash while at work and the large body of my work is gen, possibly with a dash of UST in there, but nothing explicit.

In order to read fic (which I don't do much anymore, since few people write my pairings and I'm very picky about who I read in the Gen area), I go through my f-lists in the morning and save the LJ entries and stories that I want to read - in '?format=light' on my USB drive. Then I read them at lunch, or when my brain needs a break.

[saphirablue]

I check my mail and my LJ-friendslist during my lunchbreak. If there is a tiny, small story I read it during my break or I read some paragraphs over the day during my programm does its calculations - but mostly I read the summary of a fic (and then I'm getting very excited and happy about the prospect of coming home and reading a new fic! =))

Sometimes (but that's more the exception than the rule) I read longer stories if I'm bored...