Tag: WORKPLACE

Despite its raging popularity, Twitter often receives criticism for being the realm of the narcissistic and self-indulgent. Combine that with a proliferation of celebrities and extreme overexposure in the media, and it's easy to see why a hard-working, everyday American might dismiss the site as totally worthless. Before you judge too quickly, the New York Times earlier this week reported that ...

By now, we've seen plenty of people fired thanks to their online antics on social networks like MySpace or Facebook, but this latest story takes that idea and puts something of a twist on it. According to Canwest News Service, Crystal Bell was a worker at a Canadian spa who logged in to Facebook one morning back in November before heading to work. She had a message waiting in her inbox from her ...

Ugh. Seriously, people, stop looking at porn on your work computer. It's unprofessional, dangerous for the company network, and quite stupid if you value the idea of being employed. Yet, despite repeated scandals and warnings, folks just keep loading up their work PCs with Internet filth. The latest shocker comes out of Sweden, where eight employees of the national airport agency LFV lost their ...

We don't want to inspire a Swine Flu-type hysteria, but there is a malady that currently plagues over 500,000 English workers and results in U.K. businesses' losing over 5 million days a year. Fortunately, the condition is not contagious, and seems to be easily prevented and remedied. According to the Economic Times, Repetitive Surf Injury (RSI) -- muscle, tissue and ligament damage caused by ...

Ever feel like burning some bridges when you quit a job? Shredding important documents or yelling at your former manager? No? How about jumping on a power mushroom and groping a princess? If that's more up your alley, you're not alone; a developer named Mr. Jarrad decided to quit his job at game developer 2K Australia by creating a game featuring just those sorts of antics, we learned from ...

If you've managed to convince your boss that personal Internet use at the office is a good thing, kudos to you. If, however, he or she isn't buying it, then maybe you should go for the 'inevitability' argument, citing a report that has found attempts at blocking workers' personal use of the 'Net to be more or less futile. As reported by Ars Technica, Palo Alto Networks' 'Application Usage and ...

We've heard of people getting fired for posting incriminating photos on Facebook, or bad mouthing their jobs in their status updates, but this is the first time that we've ever heard of someone getting sacked for simply logging in to the social networking service. A Swiss woman, who remains unidentified, called in to work at Nationale Suisse, sick with a migraine headache, according to a brief, ...

We're not sure exactly what Brad Williams, the now-former IT director for the city of Norcross, Georgia, could have been thinking if he in fact did as he's been alleged to do -- used his work computer to download some 24,466 pornographic images. As part of an investigation into William's poor job performance, monitoring software was loaded on his office PC, eventually revealing the ...

As more and more major newspapers fold, in the face of dwindling advertisers and subscribers, bloggers are usurping their roles in record numbers. According to The Wall Street Journal, over 20 million people now blog in the United States. Of those, 1.7 million earn money doing so, while 450,000 primarily earn their livings through the blogged word. Those statistics indicate that there are now ...

If you love Twitter, Texas, and pizza, then we may have found the perfect job for you. Pizza Hut is officially in the hunt for a summer 'Twintern,' who will be expected to tweet about all things Pizza Hut. Applicants must be enrolled in college and be willing to move to Dallas for the summer. Anyone interested in the position can apply at PizzaHut.com (as of this past Monday). Pizza Hut is ...

Microsoft has faced concern and criticism for its Windows Vista operating system from day one. Despite the company's best advertising efforts, many customers plan to wait for Windows 7 before upgrading their machines, says a recent survey. Systems management firm KACE commissioned a survey of 1,142 IT professionals to gauge opinion about switching to the forthcoming Windows 7. Of those, ...

Oh, the pains of being popular. Now that micro-blogging service Twitter has officially saturated the mainstream, it was only a matter of time before it became the target of hackers. Case in point: Last week, a non-malicious attack infected users' profiles, sending tweets without permission. After fessing up to the attack, 17-year-old Mikeyy Mooney claimed he created the worm for three basic ...

Do you love James Bond movies and high-tech gadgets? Are you often referred to as "grotesquely smart?" If so, then you might be interested to know that the Security Service (or 'MI5'), UK's security intelligence agency, is looking to hire a Chief Scientific Adviser. The responsibilities of the newly established role, as stated in the official job application, include "developing and owning a ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/04/18/myspace-fires-employee-after-data-breach/'; MySpace employees experienced some unusual high and lows this week at work. On Monday, workers for the social networking site learned of a data breach orchestrated by a fellow employee, who collected names, Social Security numbers and compensation information of many of his co-workers. Fox Entertainment ...

The glut of recent incidents involving employees jeopardizing their jobs due to social networking mishaps may be enough to convince people to keep their online social activities separate from their work activities. Recent research, though, suggests that workers may be better served if they use social networking and instant messaging to remain in close contact with one another. Researchers from ...