Comments on: Career Advice: Don’t Spend Half Your Work Day On Facebook And Then Brag About It

By: YSecure » First Thing’s First - Make my Blog Pretty (and attack my visitors)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:21:06 +0000

[...] most users would rather shy off illegal content and stick to more legit things (like spending four hours a day on Facebook). Hackers, always eager to get to more computers infected, decided it makes sense to get closer to [...]

By: Stay Away From Friendster While At Work! » SELaplana

Stay Away From Friendster While At Work! » SELaplana — Mon, 19 May 2008 08:34:29 +0000

[...] Arrington of Techcrunch has this great advice to all employees, “Don’t Spend Half Your Work Day On Facebook And [...]

By: Las distracciones en el trabajo | Gente IT

Las distracciones en el trabajo | Gente IT — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:18:16 +0000

[...] que nos roban mucho tiempo. Aunque es cierto que hay gente que se toma lo del Facebook demasiado en serio (para los que no dominen demasiado el inglés, ¡¡el personaje en cuestión se pasó 500 horas de [...]

By: Web Worker Daily » Archive Top Time-wasters for Web Workers (And How to Cure Them) «

Wed, 14 May 2008 16:00:38 +0000

[...] have more than one. The average person probably spends less than an hour on Facebook daily, while others are more extreme. If you’re more like the latter, then you need to trim down your social networking [...]

By: » Workers Fired for FacebookJumpSwap » College Group Management Utility

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:06:43 +0000

[...] someone could spend 4 active surfing hours a day using Facebook. According to additional reports on Techcrunch: Unwisely, perhaps, Charlie posted the warning email on his Facebook account, saying “It’s a [...]

By: Mr Roth's Blog

Mr Roth's Blog — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:25:16 +0000

Facebook at work?…

Watch out! Are you spending time on Facebook.com during work-time? Then be careful in most cases this is not allowed and can have bad consequences for you. A new calculation based on figures from 65 institutes, in the UK, including government departmen…

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nice — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:45:54 +0000

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By: Vida real, vida virtual y sus fronteras | Cuéntamelo

Vida real, vida virtual y sus fronteras | Cuéntamelo — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:41:37 +0000

[...] parece ser el caso que comenta Michael Arrington en TechCrunch: Charlie, un trabajador de Goldman Sachs en el Reino Unido, que fue advertido por su Departamento [...]

By: Respectance.com » Holy Hannah! Social Networking yes, but at what cost?

Respectance.com » Holy Hannah! Social Networking yes, but at what cost? — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:17:55 +0000

[...] think that this is one you’ll have to read on your own to believe. Thanks to TechCrunch for pointing this one [...]

By: Bubleat

Bubleat — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:04:12 +0000

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

By: Blasting

Blasting — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:18:30 +0000

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

By: Meredith

Meredith — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:37:22 +0000

Um, no. No no no.

By: Bubleat

Bubleat — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:27:37 +0000

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.

By: Well

Well — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:34:56 +0000

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.

By: charlie morrison

charlie morrison — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:47:00 +0000

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.

By: Well

Well — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:20:43 +0000

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”?

By: Ollie

Ollie — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:31:20 +0000

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.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:27:41 +0000

“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.

By: Wedlinger

Wedlinger — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:30:16 +0000

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.

By: Boy

Boy — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:52:50 +0000

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’.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:42:48 +0000

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.

By: Vida real, vida virtual y sus fronteras » El Blog de Enrique Dans

Vida real, vida virtual y sus fronteras » El Blog de Enrique Dans — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:45:55 +0000

[...] y su vida virtual, en la que desarrollan la mayoría de sus relaciones sociales. Este parece ser el caso que comenta Michael Arrington en TechCrunch: Charlie, un trabajador de Goldman Sachs en el Reino Unido, que fue advertido por su Departamento [...]

By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:22:58 +0000

Career Advice: Don’t Spend Half Your Work Day On Facebook And Then Brag About It…

This guy got almost fired from Goldman Sachs for being on the popular social networking site Facebook for about 4 hours a day!…

By: charlie morrison

charlie morrison — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:09:52 +0000

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!

By: Telagon Sichelputzer

Telagon Sichelputzer — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:34:27 +0000

Twitter: Sinn und Unsinn…

Ja ich nutze auch den neuesten Hype namens Twitter. Bei den pl0ggies gibt es einen sehr ausführlichen Artikel dazu, und auch ich möchte ein paar meiner Gedanken dazu in Worte fassen.
Der Hintergrund für folgendes ist dabei nicht etwa der…