Re: Vikings upset Karmazin

["Brian T. Vita" <brian_vita@cssinc.com>]

At 09:11 AM 4/24/00 -0500, Ronald Steele wrote:
>And it's debateable if it constitutes a "misuse" to listen to netcasts. I
>bet you could find some company silly enough to let actual radios stay, but
>block out netcasting sites. Now wouldn't THAT be irony?

>Its misuse when the employees are taking up a noticable amount of the 
>company's bandwith for personal use at the expense of slowing down the 
>company's legitimate needs.  If the company's network is slowed down by a 
>number of workers listening to streaming audio, it cost the company money.

>I have the same feeling when people abuse their company email accounts.  I 
>had a friend who used to get about 200+ pieces of junk email every day at 
>her workplace.  This was not unsolicited spam, she would purposely 
>subscribe to every mailing list that even remotely interested 
>her.  Official company stuff was often lost in the inbox pile.  She would 
>spend about an hour a day reading it.  She couldn't understand when the 
>company canned her.


Brian