are our work places un-Australian blocking sport on the internet

*cough* *cough* riotact at work *cough*

I think there is this new technology AM Radio which has not only live scores but commentary. I hear it also costs less than $20 per month and you can use it anywhere there are radio waves.

It’s counter productive blocking such sites. It’s better to have a happy work, force keeping up to date with the things they enjoy during quiet times at work, than a miserable bunch of workers, bored stupid due to big brother killjoy bosses.

sniffing the air, sniffing… aha lock-on! Found one.

“This is sport, the Australian way of life, our main point of conversation”

Geez, get a life!

Aah, “un-Australian” – a meaningless attempt at nationalistic sensationalism. Even worse, you admit that you’re doing the wrong thing and are trying to find a way to justify it!

Have you asked your proxy administrators to allow the site? (Good luck!)

Can’t get your sport at work? Assuming you don’t already have one, go get a nice mobile phone with a web browser in it – Eg Nokia 6220c @ $250. Then fork out $10-20/month (or a bit more if you use Telstra) for a 3G data plan. Then you can check the scores anywhere, any time you want.

Its Conroy’s censorship!!! (only joking)

I dont know where you work, but here at my work sport and news site are accessible. Content that could be found offensive (lets not start that arguement here) is blocked.

IMHO, blocking sports sites is pretty overboard.. your admins must be a pack of card carrying commies. But there are a few reasons why they might do it (bandwidth, availability, history of lost productivity etc etc etc). Funnily enough, you can access sites like RA so my guess would be the bandwidth consumed by sports sites (streaming media can make the web slow for other users)…

And I strongly disagree with the generalisation that sport is our main talking point… people seem to be more concerned with Paris’s latest outfit or the newest apdoted Africian kid that Brad and his plastic missus got

If sport is your main point of conversation, I hope to never be stuck next to you at a party.

Majority of things are blocked my work, no access to facebook, some charity sites, videos and images. Although I can access news. I think it depends on what people are looking at most in your workplace and what uses the most downloads.

It’s annoying, because I think if it’s not a productivity issue then it shouldn’t be a problem. So long as all your work is done you should be able to look at whatever you want.

do you get paid to visit sport sites and read articles, view streamed games, and generally live on these sites?

I didn’t think so.

It isn’t unaustralian, it is is a fact of life as companies and departments try to combat blowouts in internet costs. You may think it is your right to view sport sites on “your” work pc. it is the right of the department or company to block these sites, if they think they are counterproductive.

I can view a sport site whenever I want. but then, I am running my own home notebook with a nextG card in the office. i don’t use the work pc for non business sites, including the RA, and there is nothing work can do to stop me…

I’ll take this as an obvious troll….

You work for the APS dont you?
Get back to work, lazy pube!

(PS: My workplace does not filter anything, it’s great. 😛 )