Big Boss, Not Big Brother, Spotted Long Island Family's 'Suspicious' Google Searches

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102. Where I work

We had a computer running monitoring software connected to the router that directed traffic to the internet. Any time someone in the company fired up a web browser and accessed the internet, everything going to or from their computer ran through that monitor.

We installed it because we had managers who were worried that people were wasting time on the internet when they should be working.

I worked in I.T. and we discovered a couple people looking at porn, etc., on work time... but when we told their managers... suddenly everyone became uncomfortable about the "big brother" aspect and nobody wanted to take any action about it.

It was odd.

We actually disconnected it later, after I threw a fit and said "Why in heaven's name are we running this thing and paying annual maintenance on the software if nobody cares about the data it is collecting?"