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So after a year at my job, the Radio Margaritaville website has been blocked. No longer do I have access to Buffett Buffets, concert replays and music to take my mind off of work...I have no reason to live!

Anybody have any tricks around a blocked website?

spendingmoney wrote:So after a year at my job, the Radio Margaritaville website has been blocked. No longer do I have access to Buffett Buffets, concert replays and music to take my mind off of work...I have no reason to live!

Anybody have any tricks around a blocked website?

bring in your own personal Sirius receiver?

www.hidemyass.com that may work

RinglingRingling wrote:

spendingmoney wrote:So after a year at my job, the Radio Margaritaville website has been blocked. No longer do I have access to Buffett Buffets, concert replays and music to take my mind off of work...I have no reason to live!

Anybody have any tricks around a blocked website?

bring in your own personal Sirius receiver?

A co-worker tried that and the receiver couldn't pick up a signal inside the building.

spendingmoney wrote:So after a year at my job, the Radio Margaritaville website has been blocked. No longer do I have access to Buffett Buffets, concert replays and music to take my mind off of work...I have no reason to live!

Anybody have any tricks around a blocked website?

No job is worth that! I suggest you quit forthwith!

Liquidate any and all assets, jump on a cheap flight to the south of France or maybe northern Italy (Tuscany), find a nice local girl and settle down to raise a pack of kids.

Do you want to spend the rest of your working days in a cube farm, or do you want to be swilling wine from your own vineyard and schtuppping your beautiful French (or Italian) wife any and every chance you get for the next forty years?

If you have a sirius subscription, log on at Sirius and play it from there.

spendingmoney wrote:

RinglingRingling wrote:

spendingmoney wrote:So after a year at my job, the Radio Margaritaville website has been blocked. No longer do I have access to Buffett Buffets, concert replays and music to take my mind off of work...I have no reason to live!

Anybody have any tricks around a blocked website?

bring in your own personal Sirius receiver?

A co-worker tried that and the receiver couldn't pick up a signal inside the building.

If you pay for Sirius, you can stream it online at sirius.com

Or, if you can install a media player such as winamp, you can stream the RM radio feed that way

It USED to be on iTunes radio...can't seem to find it though...

If you have Windows Media Player, open it and go to File>Open URL and put this in the box: http://radmarg.sc.llnwd.net:12105/

See if that works.

It's still in ITunes under folk .

spendingmoney wrote:Anybody have any tricks around a blocked website?

I know two people who lost their jobs because they used tricks to get around a blocked website.... Probably not worth it....

They are probably blocking ALL streaming content. Lots of places do it due to the bandwidth demand streaming puts on a network.

NO MUSIC FOR YOU!

SuperTrooper wrote:They are probably blocking ALL streaming content. Lots of places do it due to the bandwidth demand streaming puts on a network.

NO MUSIC FOR YOU!

That would be my thought. Even on networks with really high speed connections, streaming content can kill a network in a hurry. I am surprised more businesses aren't doing the same thing.

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:

spendingmoney wrote:Anybody have any tricks around a blocked website?

I know two people who lost their jobs because they used tricks to get around a blocked website.... Probably not worth it....

I know we've fired more than a couple at my place due to people trying to get around us blocking youtube, myspace, etc. We just recently had to block ebay as well due to our callcenter people being notorious for surfing the web when clients are walking through.

I also can't count the number of people who have tried to install streaming apps, and any number of apps for their various mp3 players, media players, etc., which they can't because no one has admin rights on their machines.

and after years of this, I still get irate people asking me why. Our hr department has put out numerous emails telling people they are more than welcome to bring in a radio, or whatever they want as long as it does not require anything on their pc. The company owns the pc, and unless otherwise specified, the employee is there to work, not surf the web or use company resources for personal use.

sy wrote:

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:

spendingmoney wrote:Anybody have any tricks around a blocked website?

I know two people who lost their jobs because they used tricks to get around a blocked website.... Probably not worth it....

I know we've fired more than a couple at my place due to people trying to get around us blocking youtube, myspace, etc. We just recently had to block ebay as well due to our callcenter people being notorious for surfing the web when clients are walking through.

I also can't count the number of people who have tried to install streaming apps, and any number of apps for their various mp3 players, media players, etc., which they can't because no one has admin rights on their machines.

and after years of this, I still get irate people asking me why. Our hr department has put out numerous emails telling people they are more than welcome to bring in a radio, or whatever they want as long as it does not require anything on their pc. The company owns the pc, and unless otherwise specified, the employee is there to work, not surf the web or use company resources for personal use.

That is why, if you see me on sites like this during the day, I will limit the usage. For example, I won't have something like this open the whole day (that would a terminable offense), however, I will go there one time and jump right off after two minutes. Then won't access it until a few hours have passed so that the company will know that I don't spend hours of company time on these types of sites.

sy wrote:

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:

spendingmoney wrote:Anybody have any tricks around a blocked website?

I know two people who lost their jobs because they used tricks to get around a blocked website.... Probably not worth it....

I know we've fired more than a couple at my place due to people trying to get around us blocking youtube, myspace, etc. We just recently had to block ebay as well due to our callcenter people being notorious for surfing the web when clients are walking through.

I also can't count the number of people who have tried to install streaming apps, and any number of apps for their various mp3 players, media players, etc., which they can't because no one has admin rights on their machines.

and after years of this, I still get irate people asking me why. Our hr department has put out numerous emails telling people they are more than welcome to bring in a radio, or whatever they want as long as it does not require anything on their pc. The company owns the pc, and unless otherwise specified, the employee is there to work, not surf the web or use company resources for personal use.

At my company........one of the girls that surfs just got a promotion Maybe I should spend more time on BN during working hours

I hate when that happens!!!!

I'd try what everyone else has written already.

aeroparrot wrote:That is why, if you see me on sites like this during the day, I will limit the usage. For example, I won't have something like this open the whole day (that would a terminable offense), however, I will go there one time and jump right off after two minutes. Then won't access it until a few hours have passed so that the company will know that I don't spend hours of company time on these types of sites.

Exactly. I'm certainly no innocent, because everyone knows I post during the day (and no, it's not because I'm the one who blocks the sites and I can get around it), but there is a difference between casual surfing when you have a free minute and living your work day on it.

Plus, in addition to those who have just tried to get around it, I've also had some just come to me and honestly ask me why they can't get to something. After I explain to them why and why it's bad for the company, they've understood and walked away.

SM, You could always ask why they're blocking it, maybe there is a good company reason that you wouldn't want to get caught trying to circumvent. There is always a possibility that it wasn't even meant to be blocked. I mis-typed some records one day, and blocked Amazon.com by accident. No one knew until two weeks later when a woman asked me if it would be okay if I let her order christmas gifts over her lunch hour. I hadn't even known it was blocked.

(and we don't block Sirius or radio margaritaville. I'd have to put my foot down on that one )

sy wrote:

aeroparrot wrote:That is why, if you see me on sites like this during the day, I will limit the usage. For example, I won't have something like this open the whole day (that would a terminable offense), however, I will go there one time and jump right off after two minutes. Then won't access it until a few hours have passed so that the company will know that I don't spend hours of company time on these types of sites.

Exactly. I'm certainly no innocent, because everyone knows I post during the day (and no, it's not because I'm the one who blocks the sites and I can get around it), but there is a difference between casual surfing when you have a free minute and living your work day on it.

Plus, in addition to those who have just tried to get around it, I've also had some just come to me and honestly ask me why they can't get to something. After I explain to them why and why it's bad for the company, they've understood and walked away.

You could always ask why they're blocking it, maybe there is a good company reason that you wouldn't want to get caught trying to circumvent. There is always a possibility that it wasn't even meant to be blocked. I mis-typed some records one day, and blocked Amazon.com by accident. No one knew until two weeks later when a woman asked me if it would be okay if I let her order christmas gifts over her lunch hour. I hadn't even known it was blocked.

(and we don't block Sirius or radio margaritaville. I'd have to put my foot down on that one )

Sirius and Radio Margaritaville aren't blocked at my place too. I think there will be an uproar for Sirius.

aeroparrot wrote:Sirius and Radio Margaritaville aren't blocked at my place too. I think there will be an uproar for Sirius.

When I blocked Myspace last year, I literally thought people were going to quit over it, that's how addicted some of the callcenter people were to it. I was dubbed 'internet furor' over that one.