Re^5: Not Safe For Work threads (NSFTSI)

[LanX]

Funnily goatse seems to be the prime example of NSFW.

I'm not sure anymore if this lazy going applies to the whole of Europe, and how a manager of a London bank would react .... Maybe not amused? ;-)

IMHO it's also a matter of time and not only space... I remember now getting into some trouble in 1999 when freelancing for a bank in Frankfurt, because my boss found internet comics in my temporary internet files, accusing me to surf for fun at payed work time.

As I found out later (too late) these images originated from outlook emails which where displayed via IE4. (NT3 standard setting???)

Two (intern!) girls at the neighboring office where sending funny cartoons every day to the whole department compromising my internet files...

Thankfully I never got emails with goatses or oralses ... ;-) ¹

Well nowadays people feeling offended just by the mention of the word "goatse" only, should lead to a new classification:

NSFTSI := Not suitable for the Spanish inquisition

(1) I should add that this boss was widely considered a psycho. IMHO examining the private logs of an employee shouldn't be legal in Germany.

[JavaFan]

Funnily goatse seems to be the prime example of NSFW.

I presume you are referring to the image shown for a long time on the goatse website. But no image was posted in the thread being discussed. It was the word being used as a name. I'm sure the manager of said London bank didn't object to their branches in Essex?

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IMHO examining the private logs of an employee shouldn't be legal in Germany.

Yes, but what does that have to you with you? If you were freelancing, you weren't an employee.
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[LanX]

> I presume you are referring to the image shown for a long time on the goatse website.

Yes of course! Talking about the goatse phenomenon means primarily the image.

> It was the word being used as a name.

Exactly, and as I said, objecting the _word_ is a case Spanish inquisition. Me too, I didn't know the image before.

> If you were freelancing, you weren't an employee.

I think these laws/etiquette apply generally to subordinates.

The difference is that an average freelancer wouldn't openly oppose his client.

(well I'm not normal... )

> ... object to their branches in Essex?

hihi 8) This reminds me of a friend who was complaining he couldn't get emails from his girlfriend from her university of sussex account (mid 90s) ... as we found out mails containing "sex" where automatically filtered out by our faculties sys-admin. xD

UPDATE: In general people should be very prudent about a quick accusations, just take the cultural differences of the meaning of 88 in chats.