SITE CONVERSION THIS WEEKEND!!!

[Azselendor]

kwok, google up a proxy browser and show that corporate filter who's boss

[Captain Kwok]

I'll give it a shot tomorrow. Anyone have a favourite they'd recommend?

[AngleWyrm]

vBulletin: Great stuff.
What not to do (Mass Effect forums)

P.S.: Could use a custom favorites icon.

[Mindi]

AngleWyrm, talking about the one in the URL? Yeah, I need to create a new one, it's vb default (obviously). I'll make sure that's on my list.

[Mindi]

Oh and Captain Kwok, Richard's workplace has also blocked a bunch of stuff......anything with the name game in it.....sites such as youtube.....even sites such as jibjab, etc. Definitely makes it harder for him to do anything for the site from work, even on his lunch hour/breaks.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Um...Isn't Richards' job at Shrapnel?

Or am I missing something here?

[Mindi]

No.....Richard has a full time job as a Supervisor at a fortune 20 company. This is and has always been his second/side job. When he started out here he was doing the contractor hop, lol.....you know where you take a contract for 6 months to a couple of years and then go elsewhere. That was very lucrative during the 90's and early 2000's and gave him lots of flexibility(read: no one cared what you did from work as long as you got your work done)..but once the market seemed to be busting in that area we had him take a permanent job instead of being a contractor.

His hours at his job as he's went up the ladder have increased, especially after he got into the management track....it's one of the reasons we made the decision to step down from our official positions with Shrapnel. In an average week he's working 50 hours a week plus he has an hour commute both ways because we live in nowhere land...i.e. no IT jobs in the town of Lancaster, Ohio. We expect he will probably be a Manager in the next year or so at which time his free time will probably go further downhill. Eventually we want to sell our house and move closer to his work so we can cut down that 2 hours per day community time, but between his full time job and the restrictions at his job he/we really don't have the ability to work on Shrapnel the way we once did, much less work on anything else that we have interests in and have quality time together.

[HoneyBadger]

It's too bad he can't work part of his time at home, Mindi. That's why I'm able to spend as much time on the boards as I do-I'm chained to a desk for 10 hours a day, but I can do what I like on the internet, since I'm at home. In 10 years time, 20 at the most, I think we'll be seeing a shift to atleast 80% of desk jobs being worked at home, if only for the savings on gas. Every time gas goes up in price, I effectively get a raise

[Mindi]

He works from home on occasion but as a manager of people, he is the one who A. has to set the example and expectations for his team and B. he has to make sure his team is getting things done. Normally he works from home if he's been up half the night on an SRT (Service Restoration Team---as management when there's a bad outage he has to coordinate the restoration effort to get service restored) or he's just exhausted and wants to get stuff done for work without so many people coming to him and bugging him while he's at work. Plus, I doubt anytime soon his company is going to let folks with any kind of regularity work from home...big time corporate America is pretty behind the times in that regard because they want to guarantee they are getting their money's worth out of you.

And yes 2 tanks of gas a week at 60 bucks a pop adds up.

[Mindi]

Originally Posted by AngleWyrm

vBulletin: Great stuff.
What not to do (Mass Effect forums)

P.S.: Could use a custom favorites icon.

I created a new one from our blue logo and uploaded it. Sometimes it takes a little while for browsers to start using the new one though so it might not show for you right away.