Company Time

So, who's on Topix?

No, Who is on first...

A lot of people post on Topix from work. I suppose anyone who has to use a computer for their job must have sites they go to when the boss (or anyone else) is not (to their knowledge) looking and that those sites aren't necessarily pornographic. Before I was ever on the computer myself, work would find me in offices and, among the maze of cubicles I'd often hear someone chuckling. What could be so funny about a screen full of numbers, like the other folks were looking at? Well, now I know that those people were looking at any one of millions of sites on the internet and probably chuckling at some amusing anecdote made by a Ferrerman wannabe back then on a site like Topix or watching a cute cat video. Same difference, right? If I had to look at a computer all day, I'd quickly tire of spreadsheets and look around the internet for something more interesting than, say, lawyerin'.

It appears that some people DO get paid to post on Topix!

Screwing around, killing time on the 'net at work isn't the worst thing an employee can do if they are discreet and frugal about it in a time-management sort of way. But, sheesh(!) if you are sexually harassing women on company time, on company computers and plotting the demise of a rival who bested you on the internet and you're doing that also on company time and on company computers, maybe it's time you followed through on masturbation fantasies of criminal charges and civil suits. Or, just go to personnel and say:

"Ya know what? I'm sick of stealing money from you by posting on Topix all day! So, before you can fire me for not doing my goddamned job, I might as well QUIT! I can blame that on Ferrerman too!I won't have to wait to figure out I fucked up by trying to make Federal case out my acting like an idiot on Topix when I was supposed to have been working! Why should I open up myself to such scrutiny and act like my family is seriously in danger for some convoluted, fucking stupid 'reason' that no jury in the world would buy? I'm trying to win Topix, that's why! And if you don't like it, I'll sue Ferrerman for THAT too!"

Of course, if you're NOT doing those things and not plotting the demise of a Ferrerman,  you are probably not all that insane about Topix or anything else and, like most people, you just look at cat videos on Facebook when you're bored at work. What could be so wrong about that? More people should try and find out.