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Jackson County cuts off employee Web access

July 18, 2006 |

Big stink at the two Jackson County Courthouses after county employees have their Web access revoked. The official reason is that employees were wasting time surfing and hogging bandwidth. The rumored reason is that it’s a reprisal for employees posting blog comments that weren’t favorable to State Senator Charlie Wheeler, Katheryn Shields’ annointed succesor for her job as County Executive.

County managers: If employees are really wasting time then you have personel problem, not a technology problem. Deal with it via HR, not IT.

County employees: can you hear us now, or is BlogKC censored also?


Comments

7 Comments so far

  1. Jason D. Clinton on July 18, 2006 11:44 am

    Great, just what we need, GRUMPIER county employees. As if customer service there wasn’t already bad enough…

  2. Dave C. on July 18, 2006 7:59 pm

    I’d rather have employees waste time on the net than take 10 smoke breaks a day..

  3. Todd Elkins on July 19, 2006 9:12 pm

    Maybe they should make their phones only dial a few numbers, kind of like those kid’s cell phones. You wouldn’t want anyone calling home during the day.
    Bandwith concern I can understand. If people are streaming KCUR and downloading videos that might be too much of a strain on the system. Reading a simple blog. Come on.
    Maybe they will take away newspapers at the doors too.

  4. Mark Forsythe on July 20, 2006 7:21 am

    A long time back (in the mid 90’s) I used to be able to get around corporate blocks by using the hard IP instead of the URL. Don’t know if that works anymore. Maybe an IT guru who reads this blog has some ideas?

  5. Craig on July 28, 2006 1:18 am

    Does anyone really believe that Kathryn suddenly is obsessed with employee productivity? If so, does anyone really buy that there are only two county employees who aren’t productive? As Sherlock once said “If you eliminate the impossible, what remains must be true.” Everyone who has ever had dealings with the Mad Cow knows what the story is here; She knows that Old Charlie was senile even back in about 1980, and thus she can continue to basically run the show like some low budget Tammany Hall. Has anyone heard the rumor that Freedom Inc. is paying kids to steal Sanders signs? You’d roll your eyes and think it was false if you didn’t know the players involved.

  6. Chris Dowell on July 29, 2006 9:21 pm

    What is next . . . Restroom priveledges revolked, phone priviledges revolked, smoking breaks revolked? Get these highly paid goverment employees some avenue to vent. I would rather see them e-mail or blog then the many of countless of other things that they may do.

  7. Jason Brown on January 7, 2007 2:38 pm

    I didn’t know Realtors got restroom and smoking breaks.

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