Getting Fired for Disboard Surfing at Work?

[LovableGluttons]

Someone is being let go at work today for having visited the Disboards website while at work.

She visited the website over 300 times in five weeks!

I like this website, but 300 times? While at work?

I rarely have time to empty my bladder, I can't help but wonder how she found the time to visit that many times?

Internet surfing on company time sealed her fate.

When I heard it was Disboards, I had to share!

300 in five weeks!

 

[golfgal]

Did she sign on 300 times or look at 300 pages. If she looked at 300 pages, that is only 8 pages/day, not all that many, but I agree, I have always wondered how people surf the net on company time.

 

[mhsjax]

Could she have been doing it on her lunch hour, maybe eating at her desk?

 

[Disneychix]

It depends on what your job is. I have a desk job where I am using internet applications all day long. I usually have a few browsers open at a time and one is usually the DIS!

 

[FINFAN]

yeah, if she kept the page open but minimized, whups! Is she planning a trip or hitting the budget board? The timing since Thanksgiving could very easily explain that many visits if looking for budget deals.
Tough to hear but it is a reality. How do you explain that on your next job interview? She can hopefully work this to her asvantage, apply at Disney owned companies, perhaps? Find a way to use her "search" skills? Hopefully she can find a new job soon.

 

[Jennasis]

I DIS all day long at work. of course, I'm the boss, I own the computer and pay for the internet access, and...I work from home hahaha!

DH is not allowed to use his company computer for personal surfing when he is at work.

I agree with the poster who asked whether the fired person signed on 300 times or whether she looked at 300 pages?

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

When this sort of thing happens, there is almost always something else driving it. No way would I ever fire a great employee over internet surfing unless it was something like porn.

 

[jrmasm]

Someone is being let go at work today for having visited the Disboards website while at work.

She visited the website over 300 times in five weeks!

I like this website, but 300 times? While at work?

I rarely have time to empty my bladder, I can't help but wonder how she found the time to visit that many times?

Internet surfing on company time sealed her fate.

When I heard it was Disboards, I had to share!

300 in five weeks!

You're not at working now?

 

[Dax]

I agree, I surf at work...I am also behind a firewall, and many things are blocked out, including a lot of signatures and some links I cannot follow, or see a lot of posted pictures.

I keep DIS open all day, but I also spend a lot of my day actually WORKING, and my bosses know this. I only DIS when either waiting for the system to do its thing, or my downtimes.

I agree with another poster, there was probably something else behind it, and they used the internet surfing as a easy excuse

 

[LovableGluttons]

You're not at working now?

nope!

 

[luvsJack]

I am on the dis and at work right now. I do my job but at certain times (like right now during finals) there is a great deal of down time. I just don't see much of the instructors or the students but its necessary to be here in case they need me.

Most everyone that works in the offices here does other things while at work. Several of us are attending school and we work on that, some facebook, some shop, some look up information. But, we all do our job along with all of that.

 

[Agri]

When I heard it was Disboards, I had to share!

So now we all know their personal business. Nice.

 

[Disney Doll]

I'm not sure why it matters if she looked at 300 pages or looked 300 times. If she was doing something she wasn't supppsoed to do, those are the consequences.

 

[Swimnoid]

Our work internet used to be very restricted. You could barely see any pages including facebook. And the company has various face book pages! They had to open it up because of some program they use so now you can go anywhere but they monitor it. But my office has had its own internet connection for years because of the nature of our particular job and it is wide open! Lots of people were very jealous! But I sure dont have time to visit the Dis, unfortunately.

 

[SaraJayne]

I'm not sure why it matters if she looked at 300 pages or looked 300 times. If she was doing something she wasn't supppsoed to do, those are the consequences.

I agree. If using the internet while working is against company policy, then they are well within their rights to fire her.

 

[Tinkermommy]

I am just waiting to see the thread titled "I got fired or being on the DIS"

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

I'm not sure why it matters if she looked at 300 pages or looked 300 times. If she was doing something she wasn't supppsoed to do, those are the consequences.

While this is true, I have never heard of an employee fired for this. I have seen it used as an excuse many times, but never as the actual reason that the company wanted to fire someone.

Now, I am sure that it has happened, but no one that I know would even consider firing a valued employee over a minor company policy violation that is not impacting that person's performance. In fact, when this policy is used in my company, I always make sure that it is only one item on a list because I don't want to see our company sued for the inequitable application of a company policy.

 

[Kathi OD]

While this is true, I have never heard of an employee fired for this. I have seen it used as an excuse many times, but never as the actual reason that the company wanted to fire someone.

Now, I am sure that it has happened, but no one that I know would even consider firing a valued employee over a minor company policy violation that is not impacting that person's performance. In fact, when this policy is used in my company, I always make sure that it is only one item on a list because I don't want to see our company sued for the inequitable application of a company policy.

I've got to agree with this.

Also, I'd bet that it isn't the first time this person was found to be using the internet for personal purposes while at work. Any employer I've worked for that has a "no internet for personal use" policy generally gives any employee breaking this policy at least one warning before terminating them.

 

[LuvOrlando]

I have a hard time thinking this was the ONLY reason the person was let go. Looking up someone's on-line behaviors is time consuming and an expensive waste of IT time. There had to be something that triggered the search in the first place. No matter what it's still rotten, I hate to hear when someone has been fired, unless the person is a total wack-a-doo/criminal and since surfing the Dis doesn't fall into that category I'm sad.

 

[jrmasm]

nope!

Good for you.

I understand being frustrated when you feel that coworkers aren't pulling their weight but to be gleeful that someone is getting fired is just plain gross.