Did you have to let your employees know you had that capability before they started working for you? I have a small business too and am curious about that type of monitoring. Not that we have a problem or anything...
They are all aware of the fact that I can observe their activity.
For all those people who think monitoring employees is so outrageous:
I fired up ARD Wednesday afternoon and observed one young lady's screen who was using Safari. No problem, she was use a web-based clip art service we subscribe to. In the list of users was another young lady using QuarkXPress. No problem, we publish a handful of newspapers and she's working on one. I observe her screen. What! She was working on a project for her freelance job on my equipment running my software while I pay her money.
Monday will be an eventful day.
Well, thats not on by the employee; if she needed to use the equipment, wouldn't the best thing for her to do would be to do it outside her allocated hours and pay for any costs that could be incurred by the business?
For me, when I worked at an ISP, I was allowed to complete my university study using their equipment as so long as I did it outside my work hours.
For me, when I worked at an ISP, I was allowed to complete my university study using their equipment as so long as I did it outside my work hours. [/B]
Yes, but your university work wasn't in competition with your employer.
Fahlman's employee could be. If I had an employee using my equipment and time to compete with me while I paid him or her for it, I'd be zoo-pissed, maybe even wild-safari-pissed. Is this the case Fahlman?
Yes, but your university work wasn't in competition with your employer.
Fahlman's employee could be. If I had an employee using my equipment and time to compete with me while I paid him or her for it, I'd be zoo-pissed, maybe even wild-safari-pissed. Is this the case Fahlman?
If that is the case, the person shouldn't have even taken on the assignment let alone used company equipment; all places I've worked for have ALWAYS had VERY strict rules about working a second job - its not about being an asshole, there is always a risk of accidently saying something that wasn't intended; rather than the risk occuring, you simply don't allow it.
Then again, for me, I've always given my employers my 120% focus; they pay me to work for them, not some other joker down the road.
A really sinister thing to do, if you're an employer, or even an employee... is to download a program called "EtherPEG", which allows you to view what images are bouncing around your LAN. You can't know who is looking at porn, but you can know someone is looking at porn, and what their particular fetish is. I tried this at a law firm several years ago and found out one of the partners had a porn affliction and browsed porn almost every day. It was hilarious. And not very ethical... but fun.
Babe, some one needs to introduce you to the fine art of blackmail - its a wonderful thing to learn, especially against those who have goody two shoes reputations and require pulling down a few pegs (or the whole damn lot), what ever the case may be :P
They are all aware of the fact that I can observe their activity.
If you had a tool that would allow you to look inside employee's brains and it would only detect thoughts about actions that were competing with you, would you use it?
Would you want it used on you?
BTW, I am not in any way defending what that employee did (assuming the story is true). Just your method of finding out.
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Originally posted by aplnub
Did you have to let your employees know you had that capability before they started working for you? I have a small business too and am curious about that type of monitoring. Not that we have a problem or anything...
They are all aware of the fact that I can observe their activity.
Originally posted by fahlman
For all those people who think monitoring employees is so outrageous:
I fired up ARD Wednesday afternoon and observed one young lady's screen who was using Safari. No problem, she was use a web-based clip art service we subscribe to. In the list of users was another young lady using QuarkXPress. No problem, we publish a handful of newspapers and she's working on one. I observe her screen. What! She was working on a project for her freelance job on my equipment running my software while I pay her money.
Monday will be an eventful day.
Well, thats not on by the employee; if she needed to use the equipment, wouldn't the best thing for her to do would be to do it outside her allocated hours and pay for any costs that could be incurred by the business?
For me, when I worked at an ISP, I was allowed to complete my university study using their equipment as so long as I did it outside my work hours.
Originally posted by kaiwai
For me, when I worked at an ISP, I was allowed to complete my university study using their equipment as so long as I did it outside my work hours. [/B]
Yes, but your university work wasn't in competition with your employer.
Fahlman's employee could be. If I had an employee using my equipment and time to compete with me while I paid him or her for it, I'd be zoo-pissed, maybe even wild-safari-pissed. Is this the case Fahlman?
Originally posted by Guartho
Yes, but your university work wasn't in competition with your employer.
Fahlman's employee could be. If I had an employee using my equipment and time to compete with me while I paid him or her for it, I'd be zoo-pissed, maybe even wild-safari-pissed. Is this the case Fahlman?
If that is the case, the person shouldn't have even taken on the assignment let alone used company equipment; all places I've worked for have ALWAYS had VERY strict rules about working a second job - its not about being an asshole, there is always a risk of accidently saying something that wasn't intended; rather than the risk occuring, you simply don't allow it.
Then again, for me, I've always given my employers my 120% focus; they pay me to work for them, not some other joker down the road.
Originally posted by tonton
A really sinister thing to do, if you're an employer, or even an employee... is to download a program called "EtherPEG", which allows you to view what images are bouncing around your LAN. You can't know who is looking at porn, but you can know someone is looking at porn, and what their particular fetish is. I tried this at a law firm several years ago and found out one of the partners had a porn affliction and browsed porn almost every day. It was hilarious. And not very ethical... but fun.
Babe, some one needs to introduce you to the fine art of blackmail - its a wonderful thing to learn, especially against those who have goody two shoes reputations and require pulling down a few pegs (or the whole damn lot), what ever the case may be :P
Originally posted by TrojanShawn
You may now look at porn in peace :-P
of course there router/firewall may also be keeping tabs on who goes to what websites via IP.. hehe.
Originally posted by fahlman
They are all aware of the fact that I can observe their activity.
If you had a tool that would allow you to look inside employee's brains and it would only detect thoughts about actions that were competing with you, would you use it?
Would you want it used on you?
BTW, I am not in any way defending what that employee did (assuming the story is true). Just your method of finding out.
Sometimes, technology is not the answer.