"I didn't know that was running!"

Said to me after a fucking intern brought our entire network to a crawl in order to download several torrents of some TV show called Harper's Creek.

You knew it was running, you fuck.

Now he's gotta sign another copy of the corporate AUP and if he does anything like that again he's gonna get told not to come back.

That shit grinds my gears.

6/4/2009 10:23:44 AM

6/4/2009 10:30:49 AM

The fact that he's using company time to illegally download entertainment to possibly watch on company time makes me think it's not worth keeping him around.

Plenty of other students that would rather have his/her intern spot.

6/4/2009 10:31:15 AM

If he's getting his job done, who gives a fuck what he does (as long as he's not sucking up all the bandwidth, in that case, you give a fuck).

6/4/2009 10:32:57 AM

yeah, upper management doesn't see it that way.

6/4/2009 10:35:58 AM

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"using company time to illegally download entertainment"

how dare he run something in the background while he's supposed to be working.

6/4/2009 10:38:12 AM

If shit were setup properly an idiotic intern wouldn't be able to download shit like that. and especially not with enough bandwidth to bring the entire network to a crawl.

[Edited on June 4, 2009 at 10:40 AM. Reason : d'oh, thanks V lol]

6/4/2009 10:38:46 AM

*wouldn't

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"yeah, upper management doesn't see it that way."

Maybe you need a better job!

6/4/2009 10:40:06 AM

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"(as long as he's not sucking up all the bandwidth, in that case, you give a fuck)."

Yeah he was sucking up all the bandwidth and 70-80 people couldn't do their jobs. I don't care what he downloads. It is against our policy to be using any file sharing programs at all though, technically.

[Edited on June 4, 2009 at 11:07 AM. Reason : *]

6/4/2009 11:06:14 AM

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"If shit were setup properly an idiotic intern wouldn't be able to download shit like that. and especially not with enough bandwidth to bring the entire network to a crawl."

yeah, sounds like a shitty network

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"If he's getting his job done, who gives a fuck what he does"

But you do have to watch your back with people torrenting things. A company could be held responsible if the person gets caught, and that's a huge shit storm.

That being said, my coworkers, bosses, etc share youtube and hulu videos to watch on the clock and I'm pretty sure my coworker is putting TF2 on a computer "for a stress test".

6/4/2009 11:44:24 AM

Yeah, I completely agree with the bandwidth and the liability concerns. It sounded, however, like he was initially just complaining because doing etc. on the internet equals doing a bad job.

6/4/2009 11:47:16 AM

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"If shit were setup properly an idiotic intern wouldn't be able to download shit like that. and especially not with enough bandwidth to bring the entire network to a crawl."

I've been saying that from day 1 over there... If the parent company would spend more than 2 nickels it would be lot better.

[Edited on June 4, 2009 at 12:28 PM. Reason : *]

6/4/2009 12:26:35 PM

pfsense is free, y0

6/4/2009 7:50:15 PM

pfSense4lyfe

6/4/2009 8:00:06 PM

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"If he's getting his job done, who gives a fuck what he does"

I'm not sure if this was an intentional troll comment or sarcasm. I'll bite. General comment, this is a pretty poor mindset to have in a business, where only end results matter. See Enron.

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"It is against our policy to be using any file sharing programs at all though, technically"

Assuming it's Windows, open the Event Log Viewer, figure out when they installed it, then formally discipline them. People are allowed to make mistakes on a job and redeem themselves if they do make mistakes. Intern will be on double-secret probation from now until whenever their internship ends, but, possibility they might be able to redeem themselves before then.

6/4/2009 9:51:58 PM

count on tech talk to blame the company instead of the intern for violating company policy, choking the entire network, preventing people from doing their jobs, and lying about it.

6/5/2009 6:25:16 AM

Right, because if a clueless intern can bring the network to a halt with a couple of torrents then there's not a single other scenario that would ever do the same.

My roommates don't even get away with this bullshit.

l2QoS

6/5/2009 7:41:02 AM

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"l2QoS"

6/5/2009 9:44:51 AM

agreed.

with no qos, you were just asking for trouble.

6/5/2009 9:48:15 AM

Oh there's no qos of any sort...

We're moving in August to new digs, equipment is in the process of being procured. I'm going to see if I can wrest some of the control of that from the parent company because this shi*t is ass backward.

6/5/2009 11:01:48 AM

if management doesn't want to shell out the cash for an "enterprise" routing platform, look at pfSense (as suggested earlier in this thread). it was forked from m0n0wall.

6/5/2009 12:06:04 PM

Anything I do on my own will get the IT department at the parent company a little testy and likely jeopardize my job. I doubt "hey lemme throw pfsense on a box" is going to work.

6/5/2009 12:23:20 PM