Elwood P Dowd's Journal: On spying in the workplace

So. There are very 8 employees in the IT department in my company, plus rotating people at the help desk from a consulting company. Three of us (not me) have the capability to monitor people's web browsing.

In general, those three people are way, way more concerned about privacy than I am. I can't think of better people to have that unenviable task. So I was talking to one of them the other day, about meeting someone's baby, and he asked what I thought were good baby names.

I jokingly said, "Iduno. Wilbur. Cleetus. Maybe Elwood."

Absent mindedly, he said, "Yeah. Who is Elwood..."

"Dowd?" I finished.

"Yeah. I always wondered..."

And from this point on in the conversation, we both spoke with the understanding that I used the nickname "Elwood P. Dowd" without discussing where or how he knew that.

"He's Jimmy Stewart's character from the movie Harvey. <beat> People usually think of Elwood Blues from the Blues Brothers movie."

"Oh. Yeah. I thought it was from Blues Brothers."

So, uh... if you're reading this, IT co-worker, no sweat. I figure if I'm going to get fired for my web browsing at work, it should have happened a long, long time ago. Back when I was on that horse porn bender. Joking.

Moo

[Chacham]

I browse alot too. But, i'm supporting a project in its final phases, and should have more work later.

And, i use Google Groups to search the newsgroups a lot for information that is useful.