so are you and work-lady-friend gonna keep up your daily duty? has this now morphed into a girlfriend situation?

1/21/2009 8:50:25 PM

damn eric, shit like this (not necessarily my sex life, but my personal life) is why i do 100% of my personal computing through my home PC. i bet all my ip addresses on here are the same (except from maybe one hit last week when i was testing a new remote desktop)

try to find a decent vpn with encryption and set the connection to home to look like its under control of a virus

fuck snooping, especially by the boss. the ONLY folder's i ever snoop on when using an unfamiliar computer is /myMusic, /mp3, etc. i wish there was a way to sue dat ass

1/21/2009 8:58:00 PM

I have a friend who tunnels into his home computer from work, and routes pretty much everything through that.

1/21/2009 9:03:36 PM

i do, i just emailed myself my standard company desktop and the BMP logos from the my computer info.... just made my computer look like all the others

there are a few things that give it away, but the only people there who would tell are definitely doing the same thing.

ive still got a tunnel to a router in the roof of some building out on i40 that they they a big antenna on. i could probably get assigned credentials!!1

they put it up in march.... it its still up, i can wardrive it or just login from home.

people with lots of computer access could run around the net under any id they wanna go by. its gonna be impossible to convict hacking soon, even people caught red handing. the hackers are finally winning. they always saiid the war on drugs would outlast their struggle

ha stupid haxrs

1/21/2009 9:09:58 PM

ps lets not turn even this into a nerd thread

someone make a thread, lets do some wardriving. i got some stuff so funny you guys will piss yourselves.

1/21/2009 9:11:53 PM

I know nothing of what you speak.

1/21/2009 10:05:54 PM

1/21/2009 10:31:41 PM

1/21/2009 10:36:22 PM

1/21/2009 10:39:25 PM

so can we get pics yet?

you can blur out the face if you want.

1/21/2009 11:06:26 PM

I dunno about wardriving


but I'll go gwardriving.

1/21/2009 11:38:52 PM

sue dat ass

1/22/2009 7:09:03 AM

well some of the IMs that she has copies of were us talking about how unfairly and ILLEGALLY she was treating one of our other coworkers. basically she wanted the chick gone, but she didn't fire her because she didn't want to pay the unemployment. so in her exact words to us and other coworkers, she said she planned to "make her life a living hell at work until she quits". I can almost guarantee that those IMs will be omitted when she turns in her "evidence" into the ESC, and I plan to bring that up in the hearing if it makes it that far.

1/22/2009 8:19:18 AM

Quote :

"so are you and work-lady-friend gonna keep up your daily duty? has this now morphed into a girlfriend situation?"

1/22/2009 8:20:15 AM

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"so can we get pics yet? you can blur out the face if you want. "

1/22/2009 8:20:27 AM

^^ the short answer is yes

^ i do not know what pictures you speak of

1/22/2009 8:22:54 AM

^of her!

1/22/2009 8:30:02 AM

do you log your im conversations? If so, blackmail that bitch.

1/22/2009 8:30:42 AM

Quote :

"well some of the IMs that she has copies of were us talking about how unfairly and ILLEGALLY she was treating one of our other coworkers. basically she wanted the chick gone, but she didn't fire her because she didn't want to pay the unemployment. so in her exact words to us and other coworkers, she said she planned to "make her life a living hell at work until she quits". I can almost guarantee that those IMs will be omitted when she turns in her "evidence" into the ESC, and I plan to bring that up in the hearing if it makes it that far."

So you plan to bring up something unrelated because she fired you for valid reason?

1/22/2009 8:31:12 AM

hindsight is 20/20 my good man.

^ and no, I plan to bring it up because the chick she fired is pregnant and I would like to help her out as much as possible

[Edited on January 22, 2009 at 8:32 AM. Reason : a]

1/22/2009 8:31:21 AM

^^sounds like he never got a proper warning, and it sounds like he has a good case against her. At the very least, like he said, it should help the other lady she fired to collect unemployment since they are trying to block it.

lol tough guy...

1/22/2009 8:44:21 AM

This other chick has a REALLY good case. I mean, ours is sketchy considering the types of conversations we were having over IM. But the pregnant chick never even used IM. The reasons listed for firing her were "checking personal e-mail and personal websites during business hours." She was, however, given a written warning a couple months ago so who knows. We were given no such warning.

But it is fact that EVERYONE in that office checks their personal e-mail at work, and the secretary sits on MySpace all day long. Shit, she was even doing a web-assign up there one day when I walked by.

[Edited on January 22, 2009 at 8:47 AM. Reason : a]

1/22/2009 8:46:52 AM

^oh.. well damn... if they really wanna block it, they can definitely use that against her, she might still win though.. they are usually inclined to grant the person unemployment unless they really did something bad.

1/22/2009 8:48:48 AM

the plot thickens...

1/22/2009 8:52:55 AM

lol webassign

1/22/2009 10:12:12 AM

i got inside info that she is planning to fire the receptionist as well. i will update

1/24/2009 8:43:49 PM

this was some pricey puss

1/24/2009 8:45:30 PM

more like pricey dick for her. I got a jerb lined up, she has no fucking clue what she is going to do. and she has a mortgage

1/24/2009 8:50:39 PM

looks like soon, she'll be staying with you. lol

1/24/2009 8:56:12 PM

nagative

1/24/2009 8:56:48 PM

hay!

1/24/2009 8:57:44 PM

shiat

1/24/2009 8:58:07 PM

yup

1/24/2009 9:43:20 PM

I may have missed it, but what was her reason for wanting to fire the pregnant lady?

1/24/2009 10:05:46 PM

not sure really, she just didn't like her. she didn't really fit in with the team

1/24/2009 10:11:08 PM

THREAD

IS

EPIC

1/25/2009 2:05:36 AM

unc sux ass bawls

1/25/2009 2:34:35 AM

^

1/25/2009 10:24:57 AM

Oh man, this thread is still going?

10/10, though... except the part where ya get fired. But if you've got a job lined up and thigns are working out well, then, i guess it's all cool.

1/25/2009 10:40:58 AM

needed: an update

2/15/2009 10:34:46 PM

The only update I can think of is that we have changed our relationship statuses (is that a word?) on Facebook.

I am waiting to hear about a job that is actually way better than the one I had. Should hear tomorrow or Wednesday, and hopefully be back to work by the first week in March. She still hasn't even gotten an interview, but I have a much stronger sales resume than she does.

Our boss denied our unemployment, of course, so we both appealed. Even if I get back to work I plan to fight it, because they will owe me about $2k by that point.

2/16/2009 11:31:52 AM

Update.

I got my denial letter from the ESC stating I was terminated for "continual use of company property for personal internet and e-mail usage".

I just noticed that two of my former co-workers (both still employed at the company) are on Facebook RIGHT NOW in the office. Should I take screenshots with timestamps and use it in my appeal?

2/20/2009 2:40:10 PM

damn i forgot what the place is called..... you should skip esc and go straight to them and get a mediator involved. ill PM if i think of the place, a friend used them to fight an unfair termination

2/20/2009 2:45:27 PM

and, they cited improper IM usage on my claim denial but not on my coworker's. isn't that discrimination?

2/20/2009 2:48:45 PM

thats what im thinking, i just cant remember the name of the place now

i know tons of people who have mediated and won with GHA based on discrimination and whistleblower stuff.

2/20/2009 2:49:50 PM

Quote :

"nah, it's more the instant messages that were the problem. I think my boss could and would have overlooked the TWW usage and any other personal websites I browsed, but she had copies of every IM we sent since January 1st. Most of them were pretty raunchy."

2/20/2009 2:51:03 PM

^ yes, but my coworker was equally (if not moreso) involved in said IMs, and it wasn't even mentioned in her denial of benefits letter

2/20/2009 3:00:50 PM

Figured I would give you guys another update.

I have an appointment with an attorney that specializes in unemployment claims. He is going to help us with the appeal. Also we have a former employee that is going to be a witness regarding the constant internet usage by ALL employees, including one employee that constantly looked at porn while at work and was never fired for it. The former employee that is going to be my witness left on her own terms, so they cant just discount her testimony as "disgruntled employee".

2/24/2009 9:14:19 AM

nice. so what is the process for this? is there a hearing if mediation doesn't work?

2/24/2009 9:17:29 AM

They denied mine and the other 2 employees' claims. So we have a week to file an appeal, which we already did. Now we wait until a hearing date is set. Usually the hearings are over the phone.

But the funny part is I have compiled a ton of evidence in the meantime. I have several screencaps of current employees on Facebook during work hours. And I have printed off several e-mails that were sent to my personal account from their personal e-mail accounts during business hours, just to further prove that EVERYONE uses the company internet for personal use but the 3 of us were singled out.

[Edited on February 24, 2009 at 9:20 AM. Reason : a]

2/24/2009 9:19:11 AM