Career Advice: Don’t Spend Half Your Work Day On Facebook And Then Brag About It
by Michael Arrington on March 9, 2007

A Goldman Sachs trader in the UK named “Charlie” was warned by his employer that his visits to Facebook on company time were to stop. He spent, apparently, over 500 hours on Facebook in a six month period. That works out to about 4 hours per day.

Unwisely, perhaps, Charlie posted the warning email on his Facebook account, saying “It’s a measure of how warped I’ve become that, not only am I surprisingly proud of this, but in addition, the first thing I did was to post it here, and that losing my job worries me far less than losing facebook ever could.”

Indeed.

I really wish I was a Facebook stockholder.

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Is everybody going to poke me then?

 

well, i hope that a*hole gets what he deserves.

 
 

I found Charlie on facebook in 1 minute. But the fact of the matter is that you guys really have no idea what facebook is considering some of the comments I’ve read here. It’s a combination of address book, photo album and email program. His constant logged in status is of no surprise and a standard feature for most users. I’m logged into facebook whenever my computer is on. I might navigate away, but with its settings, it won’t log me out unless I close the full program and not a tab.

As far as that “a*hole” getting what he deserves, that would be considerably more money than you make.

 

Maybe Charlie values human relationships more than the dollar worshipping acolytes of Goldman Sachs do. Money is a means to an end.

 

he spends 4 hours a day on facebook and he only has 89 friends at oxford to show for it?

 

He was previously booted off Facebook for excessive usage (Facebook disable ppl’s accounts if they have a crazy hitrate without exposure to enough adverts or something), he used to have 500+ friends, recently re-got his account hence the 89 garrett.

 

Facebook account? Pinstripe suit? Oxford graduate? Banking job?

What a tit.

 

This guy is almost as bad as Aleksey Vayner’s “Impossible is Nothing” video resume that he sent to investment banking companies:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=J7pok0TKDU8

 

Thing is. He is one of the millions who are bored at their job. Many many people - probably some of you who have posted here - are stuck behind there desks day after day with very little to do. Read “The Living Dead” and you’ll know what I mean, if you don’t already :).

 

Yeah, he’s taken it off now.
I’ll have that Goldman job if it ends up going spare. Clearly wasted on Charlie.

 

add to your hosts file (windows/system32/drivers/etc)
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 http://www.facebook.com

Do the same with other sites when I need to work.

 
 
 

Boy, if they fire him how will he as a poor Oxford alum ever find another job?

 

who’s hosting the Techcrunch rooftop party??

 
 

Suddenly Reuters’ social networking for financial services people play makes sense

 

i log in to facebook when i wake up, before i go to bed, and about 10 times during the day. im addicted to it.

 

“the facebook”? hilarious. either it’s fake, or the spy department guy is Indian.

 
 

Now there’s a techjunkr.

 

Peter: before facebook was facebook it was the facebook.

 

facebook offers the cleanest social network, but hell, i guess i don’t have nearly enough friends to spend hours sending out pokes and looking at updated profile pictures.

 
 

http://cant-touch-this.co.uk/m.....omics.html

That was Charlie [deleted] favourite URL on his Facebook profile. Read a few of those comics. Child rape, child pornography, death, drugs and racism jokes. A sackable offence in itself?

 

The Internet gives us a way to feel connected to the outside world. With all of the social networking sites, blogs, RSS feeds, etc., we can stay social and productive. That’s what we say, but if you think about it, how we’ve really just isolated ourselves from the world immediately around us. Sounds like this guy is just another isolated soul.

 

Just call it “CRACKBOOK”,and call me crackhead charlie.

 

oops change that to “CRACKBOOK CHARLIE”.

 

Atleast we have a guy with a bloody sense of humour! Are you lot honestly saying that in a moment of boredom, hours haven’t been wasted on the computer? The fact that you all had to write and complain about charlie, about a situation that doesn’t effect any of you, is what’s really sad here.

 

just *another* oxbridge public school boy working in the City….

 

goes to show no matter how much the technology advances, people try hard to remain stupid

 

This chap discussed above is my best friend from school and Oxford, and he is currently a strategist at GS. From all my friends currently working in milkround jobs in the city I gather that messing about on Facebook and such sites is fairly par for the course: one spends God knows how many hours in the workplace being set frankly rather low-broew tasks, and the rest of the time is left for waiting around, bored, until the next assignment is put forward. Much as Charlie is perhaps a little too fond of Facebook, is this not the case with thousands of others? Is this not rather old news? Why is everybody quite so fascinated with the trivial incidents in someone they do not know’s life? I can safely say that Facebook certainly impeded my progress in study at Oxford (along with many of my friends), although that said, Charlie came away with a First in every year of his Oxford career.
I think perhaps people should stop spending so many hours on pointless internet forums and go back to work!

 

Obviously, this guy is an idiot. Why would you jeopardize your job to goof-off on any social networking site? I’m an original subscriber to facebook, and I’ve never needed to spend that much time on the site…other than reading and updating profiles or creating new groups, your options are pretty limited. I hope this gets fired, then he won’t have a cool job to brag about on facebook.

 

Well done, Wedlinger. You got the wrong Morrison, and you clearly didn’t even read the article itself (which would have informed you that the Morrison in question was not involved in the incident). Next time you want to go do a ‘bit of research’, why don’t you research the correct spelling of the word ‘apparantly’.

 

Hmm, ever so slightly coincidental then that the “wrong” Charlie Morrison’s Facebook image is identical to the unknown, obscure comic in Charlie [deleted]’s Facebook URL ??

Went to a party yesterday, the whole City is talking about this. He is so fired.

 

“He is so fired”?? Where exactly did you get this information from because I know for a fact that he hasn’t lost his job!
As long as he gets his work done, (which he always manages to do) then what exactly is the problem? As a student, I usually spend alot of time on the computer, and I also use facebook quite frequently. But possibly like Charlie, I leave the page open all day, giving me a constant online status. So suggesting that Charlie actually spends 4 hours straight a day, is a little ridiculous…

Wedlinger - you are an idiot. And the fact that you spend so much time consuming your thoughts, with a guy you obiously know nothing about, shows how truely pathetic some people can be.

 

Wedlinger, you moronic tool, I was a member of Christ Church the evening of that Guest Dinner. Charlie Morrison had nothing to do with it: it’s not even his college. The ‘Morrison’ in that article is in fact a girl, who was President of the JCR at the time. Next time you go bandying rumours around, perhaps you should bother to check your facts first? Ghastly person.

 

Heather, go back to your studies. Be an academic all your life because clearly you have no clue whatsoever about how the real world operates. Being able to do your job well is not all that matters. When you work for Goldman Sachs, your personal reputation matters immensely as it reflects on the firm. So how does it look when a GS employee (a) shows how “cool” he is by breaking IT regulations about using social networking sites and suggesting his loyalty to the site is more than for his employer, and even more importantly (b) has as his favourite URL on that profile a site which links to racist, homophobic, mysogynistic and rape related “jokes”?

 

Thank you Ollie, Boy et al; and thank you Heather for voicing the common sense approach to the matter that seems to have evaded a lot of others on this site. Mr Wedlinger, how is the fact that I use a clip from Charlie’s cartoon link in any way related to the (false) allegation of my simulated bum-sex?

While on the subject of cartoons, I would point out that the rather controversial cartoons are nothing more than rather off-kilter jokes. People who actually hold bigoted views take them seriously. People who make light of such issues do so because to them such beliefs are farcical and thus can be joked about. A broad sense of humour is no bad thing.

 

That’s where you’re wrong Charlie. Rape, racism, beating up children and mysogyny “jokes” should not be laughing matters. They exacerbate and perpetuate stereotypes, forcing things into people’s subconscious. You should take offence at the existence of homophobia in “joke” form, not find it funny, homophobia will continue as long as people like you carry on laughing at what you think are “jokes” when you don’t realise how hurtful they can be to people who’ve experienced what is in those cartoons.

Your Facebook profile picture is currently this: http://profile.ak.facebook.com....._24525.jpg

I think that speaks volumes.

 

Charlie, don’t you realise the existence of such cartoons makes issues worse as some people will think it’s common/acceptable/it happens when it doesn’t? Do you realise how much offence a Facebook profile pic visible to all saying “RAPE TIME!” is for someone who got raped? You make me fucking sick.

 
 

HereIsTheCity reported he spent the night he got fired dancing away at a London nightclub. Apparantly he is the guy in the red beanie (the bottom photo for 23rd Mar, and in the Flash slideshow) at http://www.alphaparties.com/march07.htm#spark

 

Here is a photo of Charlie [deleted] smoking a joint the night he allegedly got fired: http://photos-289.ak.facebook......9_5085.jpg

 

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that is nothing to be proud off. I think facebook is an addiction for some

 

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