Can i sack someone for excessive internet usage

Bev._2

jungle_jane wrote: »

surely this thread's a wind up...

Maybe folk should wait then & see if OP comes back to respond?

Still, it's not necessarily a wind up. Some people have no clue about their rights, what they can and cannot do. I work with a guy who thinks he can do ABC & he's convinced he can legally do these things, yet i know for a fact he can't ... but you can't educate people who don't want to be educated.

yvonne13_2

Bev.

What is your plan of action for work tomorrow?

Bev._2

yvonne13 wrote: »

Bev.

What is your plan of action for work tomorrow?

Is that a serious question?


Anyway:

Start work. Carry out the orders i'm given. Drag my way through the day waiting for the light at the end of the tunnel to get ever nearer. Clock off, relax, enjoy.

anna_grant

No internet policy; no chance.

A warning that their card has been marked, then monitor.

I have legitimate reasons to access the web at work - my role as union chair and researching training courses. However, I am still aware that I shouldn't take the p*ss when it comes to accessing websites. I normally make personal use of websites before I officially start work, at lunchtime and after I finish.

Reverbe

brian_723 wrote: »

If you are in a position where you are able to sack some one, yet have to ask here perhaps it is you who should be sacked for gross incompetence as a boss .

Sort your issues out with this person and stop trying to find excuses to sack someone you just do not like .

You sound like a rubbish boss with really bad communication skills .

so Brian you dont think excessive piddletake of the boss by playing on the net when you are being paid to work is anything other than an excuse???:eek:

Torry_Quine

AmI the only one who doesn't think that staff should need to be told not to use the internet for personal use? In my opinion unless told otherwise the only internet use that is acceptable is work related.

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Carl31 wrote: »

?Anyway, whats the problem with using the net? its no different from having a gossip in the tea room, you cant tell me that everyone goes to work 9-5 and does 100% work, 100% of the time, im not sure thats even healthy from a social sense

Call me old fashioned. Aside from lunchbreak when I am not in office/workplace thats just what i do. Work. Thats what I get paid for. Toilet breaks are short - to it from it and on it doing the do..a coffee/tea break consists of making it and taking it back to desk where I drink while working - not while gossiping. - or in break room if in workplace/store on allotted breaktime only.

I'll say it again work is a work place.. not a social club...

Reverbe

skintandscared wrote: »

Totally depends what the job is too. I'm a secretary and some days we are flat out busy all day but other days we are given absolutely nothing to do and often spend time on the internet.

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Jeebs where do you work?? Every office I have ever worked we never had the time to pig about.:eek:

My last workplace we did have someone who excessively chatted, wedding and social life planned, spent time on personal phone calls, emails etc.. was sick of having to cover for her messups cos she wasnt doing the job or had any inclination/work ethic..if you dont have work to do either they employ too many ppl or perhaps take the initiative and say is there anything I can do??/help out in other depts/find something.(tidying cupboards,updating databases,organising files

Bev._2

Torry_Quine wrote: »

AmI the only one who doesn't think that staff should need to be told not to use the internet for personal use? In my opinion unless told otherwise the only internet use that is acceptable is work related.

In this day & age, when everything is based on what is written down on paper as cans and can't, do's and don'ts, i'm afraid everyone has to be told everything. You can't assume someone should know or should do something just because it's what you yourself would do, or would not do.



While i actually agree with you, unless it's written down, then the employee isn't actually breaking any rules.

Googlewhacker wrote: »

I agree, its like you have to be told not to steal

Difference being, stealing is illegal. Surfing the net for personal use isn't.

Torry_Quine

Bev. wrote: »

In this day & age, when everything is based on what is written down on paper as cans and can't, do's and don'ts, i'm afraid everyone has to be told everything. You can't assume someone should know or should do something just because it's what you yourself would do, or would not do.



While i actually agree with you, unless it's written down, then the employee isn't actually breaking any rules.



Difference being, stealing is illegal. Surfing the net for personal use isn't.

Surfing the net for personal use in your own time isn't illegal but it certainly should be in work time. I'm probably very naive that people need it to be written down to know that it's wrong.