Hi Everyone - just wondering what your tips are for OzBargaining at work?
I find a few eyes in the desks nearby glimpsing over at my desk when I open up the beautiful Orange OzBargain website (which I am obviously regularly opening). Anything to hide this? also hide the images in the thumbnails to avoid attracting unwanted attention from the boss.
Not checking OzBargain is obviously not an option. Maybe some advice for a plain text version?
With this little Chrome Extension - Decreased Productivity (turns off all colours and image content at the click of a button)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/decreased-producti…
@Gunther Incredible! just what I was looking for. Thank you so much!
My last boss, this wouldn't work on. They used to go to everyone's computers at the end of the day and print out the list of every page they visited and highlight everything non-work related. People caught onto this and started deleting their history, which only made the boss write people up for destroying work property (history files on work computers were apparently "work property" and not to be destroyed without consent.)
I had been using "incognito" mode the whole time as I have always done. Showed everyone else how to use it. Boss got suspicious when non-work related sites just dropped to 0 in one day.
Boss ended up logging everything at the router level against IP addresses on the network, printed the logs, highlighted them and every friday was the "please explain these website visits" day.
Boss didn't realise/seem to care that they were wasting more of their own time and more company time by having people sit in his office for an hour on a friday to go over "action plans" than what was wasted during a week on viewing non-work related pages and through destroying moral.
At the end before I left, all computers were cleaned of web browsers or anything that could access the internet and ALL emails went to the bosses computer for reading and then forwarded onto the required person. All emails were cleaned of any personal greetings or anything not work related. If we needed to use the internet to look something up or find a part/manual, we had to forward what we needed to the boss and they would do it for us.
I wonder why you left?
Narcist bosses
Redundant boss seeking work.
What company was this?
At some point it's just easier to use your phone
WTAF?????? How many people did this boss manage? What a massive waste of time.
Are you sure you're not reffering to when you were at school at your 'boss' was actually your teacher??
Glass door please
This boss actually did nothing
That's awesome.
Waaaaay back when there used to be a plugin called Ghostery (I think… and not to be confused with the current adblocker of the same name) that would do similar things and/or hide content with mouse swipe left to right. Was excellent in the early days on the internet when you had it at work but not at home.
These days I'm just spruiking OZBargain to the team :P
Really though, I tend to read the emails and not alot else unless it's really quiet, otherwise work is too busy anyway.
Or use your phone instead.
In my experience you eventually stop caring about people looking at what you're doing - they probably check non-work related things as well.
Just get the boss hooked on ozbargain.
This
Split shifts. Wake up early, go to work. Have the middle of the day off to sit here and abuse my keyboard, go back to work in the afternoon.
I think I would hate that. I don't like switching back onto work after I have switched off.
wish that ghostzilla was still around. It was spectacular in its day.
not sure about your place… i have 2 monitors… and ozbargain is on my screen the whole day
At your workplace or at home? At home, yeah, that makes sense, but if you're at your workplace, wouldn't your boss/manager be annoyed that you have half of your workspace being taken up by something not work related?
both…. i'm more worried my missus will see ozbargain on the screen rather than work, she would ask me to go do the laundry or something.
wouldn't your boss/manager be annoyed that you have half of your workspace being taken up by something not work related?
i am the boss /manager..
WFH
I just do whatever I want and dont care what people think about my deal searching. Im cool like that
But I also find them all deals……….so I am the most respected person in the office.
Work for Ozbargain
I gave up work so that I could Ozbargain full time.
I personally thought when your supposed to be working your supposed to be working. Tea break and lunch is your allocated time.
You can still do a good job and be productive while remaining in contact or snooping bargains. Most of us are not saving lives at work
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