Maximise/Minimise - how do you read ILX at work?

I love how right afterwards you get on the internet and tell everyone about it.

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I haven't made the jump to using ILX at a my new job, but I know if I do it once I'll never go back. The problem is that the govt. keeps tabs on everything you do on their computers so I'm afraid that if I go onto ILX they'll have my login info and realize that I'm secretly an internet weirdo. Not that I'm currently in an important enough position that anyone would think of checking in on what I'm doing on the computer, but it sucks that the info is always there for the future.

Main reason I'm on ILX in the first place is cos of the colour scheme, doesn't obviously look like yr surfin' the web.

I know I'm not fooling anyone on my team at work, bloke I sit next to's already made comments about "Site new answers".

One bad habit I have to break is minimizing the browser whenever I hear someone walking by, regardless of what site I'm at. NYT, weather channel, TPM, wikipedia...it doesn't matter, when I hear the footsteps coming I instinctively minimize it, and up pops the Excel spreadsheet. Eventually they're going to catch on because no one earth can stare at an excel sheet all day.

LOL I do that all fucking day long. I know people see me do it as well, I just can't help myself at this point.

from now on, I'm never minimizing a window again!

I'm letting it all hang out. That's right people walking by - I'm on the internet, and I don't care who sees me do it. Deal with it.

Leif.

Cell phone browsing. Work blocks ILX anyway, and even if they didn't they still record who looks at what and stuff.

Set up a proxy on your home computer while your at work :).

Nah. I'm there to work. Imagine you hire a couple of guys to paint your house and they read the newspaper half the time they're there, would you just accept that?

I'd be too busy reading ILX at work to know they were slacking off...

FYI, minimizing a window as someone approaches is the most obvious "Oops, I've been caught fucking around" move ever!

I browse ILX out of a tiny, tiny window at work. The 'Add a Post' field, however, doesn't scale down properly in whatever antiquated version of IE my workplace uses. So I can't see the right side of my posts, which leads to lots of typos and sentences with no flow.

But, yes: ILX is the perfect site to browse at work. I've had conversations with my boss while it was on-screen, no problem.

yeah except when they quickly glimpse a thread title such as "up the arse corner",

Or when you're intrigued by this 'Wallogina' thing everyone keeps talking about.

being in a two person office with my boss working from home most of the time = wahey. Good thing, as five years on from this thread's celebration of tabbed browsing I still can't do it, so antiquated is the version of IE I'm stuck with. I do end up doing the obviously highly suspicious reflex alt-tab or minimize whenever anyone else on the floor pops in. Like, not only do you not care, but you don't have the slightest bit of power over me, so what am I doing, making it look like I'm looking at pictures of Method Man's head on Shannon Elizabeth's body when I'm really just involved in some innocent Wallogina action?

I do worry that I'll eventually get a note from IT saying "dude, you're on the net every minute you're in the office, stop it", though.