@John Taylor
Well actually, CPW workers have access to virtually the entire internet, obvious exceptions being porn, gambling, hatecrime, racism, and so forth. I wonder which of these they believe the union fits within.
Carphone Preston branch joins union blackout
Carphone Warehouse is continuing its blocking of union web sites, this time deciding that employees working at Tulketh Mill, Preston, don't need access to information hosted at the Carphoneworker website. On Friday, those working at Preston found their web filter was preventing access to the Communication Workers Union-run …
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They just don't block this.
Well, they don't just block this but I believe virtually all other sites, but their wifi is another story they just won't leave it secure on a national basis and in actual fact seems to do more than it should. I do know CPW just won't fix it quickly, it seems to be taking a very long time to fix something so simple when I've provided full details on the issues around this and they are grateful but don't seem to want to act fast. to get things tight as houses again the same like some other stores etc who just can't do this either.
WebSense
Your organization's Internet use policy restricts access to this web page at this time.
Reason:
The Websense category "Social Networking and Personal Sites" is filtered.
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URL:
http://carphoneworker.wordpress.com/
get over it!
So what?
Big wowzers, a company doesnt want you using the net for personal reasons on company time!
Union matters certainly arent work reasons (well they dont bring any profit to the company) ... get yourself an internet connection and do your whingeing about your employer from home.
Sheesh.
@AC
Using a union web site during company time isn't automatically for personal reasons. They seem to allow pretty much the whole of the rest of the internet (with the usual exceptions) so it is of interest why they don't allow a union's web site.
Oh, and union matters are by definition work matters, unless you've totally missed the point of a union.
CPW Net access
Actually, CPW employee's *don't* have access to the entire internet. CPW's IT policy for stores is a whitelist of URL's.
...unless you do the naughty registry hack
The former CPW employee known as *censored*
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