Comments to Alice in Suburbia:

Christopias Spritopher, President - 2005-05-28 12:11:13
They have programs that can monitor online use while people are in classes like that, and the instructor can pull up people's screens from their console. How embarrasing for me when he was reading my IM about how awfully boring he was? Not as embarrasing as the girl in the back row who had 'accidentally' pulled up porn. A program I would want to have in my computer lab? Ignorance is bliss, SI. Ignorance is bliss.
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l-empress - 2005-05-28 12:38:09
My U.D. once used the monitoring program to report an instructor who had been doing his own thing *while allowing her -- one of the students -- to instruct the others.* How much simpler it was when we took manual notes; I wrote my comments in German script, which was obsolescent even then.
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Poolagirl - 2005-05-28 12:42:24
How funny! I sent this to one of my friends who is a trainer too - and could he ever relate!
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radiogurl - 2005-05-28 13:01:33
Heee - I'm afraid I'd be one of the guilty ones, though I would at LEAST have multiple windows open so I was both following the instructor and surfing *Whistles innocently*
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cosmic - 2005-05-28 14:01:42
I often check my e-mail at work. Once in a while my boss will come around my desk, so I have a second window minimized with our program on it. One click and back I go. I know the law of averages says I will get caught someday.
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Christopias Spritopher, President - 2005-05-28 16:16:44
Our classroom motto is, no kidding, "You ought never do wrong while someone is looking" Mark "Shania" Twain
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purple chai - 2005-05-28 17:40:55
Sounds like you were sandbagged. Who was the idiot who told them they had the afternoon off, no, oops, gotta go to a class instead?
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summersands - 2005-05-28 20:10:15
I like how you turned that into a positive ... I've been caught at work surfin' the net ... after reading some of the notes above, it looks like I'm not the only one (wink).
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TheChemister - 2005-05-28 22:47:15
I'm not supprised. It's how I get through most of my classes.
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Jim - 2005-05-29 09:07:01
I know exactly what you mean! That kind of thing stopped a couple of years ago at our site when (for security reasons, to keep non-employee attendees from having access inside corporate firewall) our classrooms were placed on their own network with no connectivity outside of their network. Bye-bye Internet. I see a similar behavior at a major combination training and corporate rah-rah even my company runs each year -- big training sessions in large darkened spaces and dozens of laptops with wireless connectivity doing e-mail, surfing the Web, instant-messaging, etc.
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pollyprince - 2005-05-30 09:13:29
I'm really bad, always surfing the net at work, one day I'm sure they are going to unload on me ... they've done it once before, maybe I'm hoping it will happen (a blessing in disguise) .. thanks for leaving me a note, I hope you stop by again soon. Take care.
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Muffin - 2005-05-30 10:29:48
Friday afternoon, 3:00 pm, before the holiday and I was still at work. A defense attorney passed me in the hall, looking all confused, and asks "was there a fire drill? Did they vacate the building? Where is everyone?" Yeah, you are looking at "everyone" "how can I help you"?
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