I, like a great many Dopers, take well deserved breaks from the daily grind by logging on to the SDMB. My favourite forum is the BBQ pit but the increasing popularity of profane thread titles (not that there was ever a period where they wer unpopular) is making skiving here an ever more periolous business.
Basically, it’s one thing to be caught reading a thread called Dry Counties? Wait, what century is this? and a whole other matter to be caught reading a thread entitled You thieving cunt (not to pick on Maureen, it’s a great thread and I’m just using it as an example).
But, you may retort, surely I don’t need to open those threads? It’s a relatively simple matter to restrict my on the job browsing to threads with family.org approved thread titles and even moreso to stay out of the Pit altogether while at work.
While this is true, and while doing so would certainly reduce the risk of my being caught surfing threads with profane titles, it does not eliminate the risk altogether due to the fact that the most recently updated thread in each forum is featured on the main page. As I logged in just now the thread occupying pride of place under the BBQ Pit link was ‘Where’s my fucking affordable health care you fucking fuck’ (again, a very worthy thread which I am merely using to illustrate my point) and, had I been at work and been spotted by my boss (an unlikely but still frightening possibility) I would been neck deep in fired.
Since I doubt I’m the only doper who has to deal with this risk may I request, on behalf of us all, that profanity is omitted from thread titles?
P.S. - If, after due deliberation, the mods decide not to adopt my suggestion, please change the title of this thread to 'Suck the Santorum from my hairy ass crack, Motherfucker".
Really though, I’ve got no sympathy for people who think other people should amend their online activities (which many of us do ON OUR OWN TIME, not on the company dime) so they can steal from their employers. It’s the height of ego-centricity.
Two men are chopping wood. The first man works feverisly all day without a break, even for lunch. The second man stops once an hour, sharpens his axe and drinks some water. He even sits for an hour to eat lunch and rest and then continues his 1 hour cycle of chopping and sharpening. The first man laughs at him and calls him lazy, only to find that at the end of the day, the second man has chopped nearly twice the wood due to a sharper axe and taking short breaks.
There’s a difference between stopping to get a little something to eat, stretching your legs, and resting your eyes and mind, and surfing the Net. Also, there’s a difference between surfing the Net while you’re on break and keeping an SDMB window open all day long.
griffen2, I do apologize. To tell you honestly, I hate that word. I don’t use it. That should give you some idea of just how truly pissed I was this morning.
However. “Descriptive thread titles, please.” And, those were the first three words that leapt to mind.
In defence of my skiving, the best way to combat the detrimental effects of mental atrophy commonly suffered by wage slave office boys like myself is to briefly engage in an activity more mentally stimulating than the ones provided by our employers. In my experience, there are only two such activities which, when performed, actually help reinvigorate one’s desire to actually get the job done. The first is to shoot the breeze with one’s co-workers, the other is to surf the web.
In short, surfing the web is the mental equivalent of stretching one’s legs.
No apology necessary. I simply picked your thread because it happened to be near the top of the page when I decided to post mine. There are about a dozen other’s I could have picked to make my point. While we’re on the subject I should mention that saving your co-workers stereo from the office harridan was an exceptionally cool thing to do. Kudos
Or, open forum 5 (The BBQ Pit) with your word processing program, select all and use the replace commands:
U -> #
A -> @
I -> !.
That’ll eliminate just about all the profanity and still make the page readable. Of course, that won’t camaflouge the ‘feltcher’ - but that word falls under the family-friendly category anyway.
