No non-gov sites of any kind, Facebook, Ebay, etc.

Two words, "consistently applied."

Which, it never was in my experience.

Life isn't fair.

I felt for a short period of time we started to make the system more fair for everyone in America but those at the top, rich, mostly white men, got all pissy when the rest of us wanted a level playing field. We're not even asking for what they had, privilege galore, we just want a level playing field & look how they're reacting.

Plus there are eyes out there, so I only use home computers NOT linked to my office.

and governments allow their people, some don't mind when, as long as you get your work done.

Some only during after-hours. Others, no access (personal) allowed.

Best thing to do is from home, on your own system(s), your own access.

Mine was (access) multi-tiered, in that I had both batch and online systems (all in IT) reporting to me, thus, I had to have 24 x 7-day access to systems, thus, personal use was mixed in there, no issues as issues came up during all hours, thus, allowable.

I suppose this happens and I hope they enforce the rule for both sides. Anyways. we'll see you in the Music Appreciation threads!

So far no one has said anything. However I suspect it is a violation though not enforced.

I hope your situation is not politically motivated.

It was that I was active on a message board at work.

Or before work started. Cubicles and "open office" work sucked for privacy. Until we started Telework and I could work from home and use my non-government mobile on the side when taking breaks.
Yeah, the personal use rules weren't always applied consistently, but then again, the users that were always on Facebook or had a Twitter Feed going in the background were either ADHD and needed that to distract the non-work related part of their brain so they could be productive or they were just keeping the seat warm and ignored until evaluation time, on their way to retirement or change of job title or station.
The worst were the people running a realtor or property management business on the side. Especially if they were in Management.

Haele

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Please tell me this was not a slap at the Guard and Reserve.

The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country. -Thomas Paine, 1776

The question remains. Were you disparaging the Guard and Reserve?

Our military in 2024 depends on the reserve components.

Who else would it being referred to?

The failure to give a direct answer to my question increases my suspicion.

sorry for any inconvenience.

The reference to the cartoon is intentional. I loved the cartoon as a kid. I have called myself Tom Slick ever since the Bill Clinton haters in Arkansas called him Slick Willy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Slick_(TV_series)

He was rich:


The major guiding principle in the life of Tom Slick was a relentless search for adventure and exploration of the unknown, sparked by his immense curiosity about everything and his willingness to embrace and investigate new ideas. He was a larger-than-life Texas oilman, entrepreneur, and explorer. He climbed mountains in the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti. He developed new breeds of cattle. He discovered major oil fields. He founded several research institutes in San Antonio, including the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, Southwest Research Institute, and the Mind Science Foundation. He even wrote and published on the topic of world peace in the 1950s; the Tom Slick World Peace Lectures at the University of Texas’ LBJ Library and the endowed Tom Slick Professorship of World Peace were established after his death in 1962.

In this revised and expanded edition of her previously published biography, Catherine Nixon Cooke, niece of Tom Slick, has mined personal letters, family papers, archives of the institutes founded by her uncle, and other resources to expand what we know of this enigmatic, energetic adventurer. In addition to relating his better-known exploits and pursuits, Cooke delves for the first time into Slick’s shadowy connections with the world of international espionage, including clues that Slick may have been involved in certain operations and interests of the OSS and its successor organization, the CIA.

Illustrated throughout with rare historic photographs, In Search of Tom Slick: Explorer and Visionary will introduce a new readership to this influential yet little known figure in modern history.

https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781623498719/in-search-of-tom-slick/

https://www.txbiomed.org/about/then-now/about-our-founder/

In 1941, Tom Slick founded Southwest Research Institute in South West San Antonio. He used to own a bunch of ranchland in the area, but it had been subdivided, however a park and I believe a creek named after him remain. https://sanantonioreport.org/the-trailist-visit-the-loch-ness-monster-at-tom-slick-park/

I'm not at all mysterious and eccentric would be kind.

I was thinking about the cartoon Tom Slick (and Slick Willie) when I started using the name.

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Savannah Kriger and her 3-year-old son, Kaiden, were tentatively identified as the bodies found in a ditch near Tom Slick Park in San Antonio, Texas. A gun also was found at the scene.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/03/19/savannah-kriger-kaiden-san-antonio-murder-suicide/73029398007/

I never know what the weather is either, I work in a secure room.

It's a walk just to get to the lockers we secure our cells in

Be safe and well. Aloha kaua.

We can wait until you're back online.

I'm sure the Subversive, Corrupt Court of the U.S. will uphold your freedom to exercise your DU religion.

they're watching you that's for sure. I work from home now, but i used to have DU open at work all the time. Fortunately as long as I got my work done I was never sounded about it. I always got my work done. That should be the bar imo, but I guess the DOD has a different take.

No one expects us to be on a task 480 minutes a day, but I took the time to extract the text from a White House message and post it to a message board. At work on my work laptop. I should have forwarded the email to my personal Gmail account and posted the OP from my personal computer.

The content of the post and the tenor of this message board were not focal points. In fact, my division chief said that he didn't see what the big deal was - The content was ok as far as he could see.

The point wasn't WHAT i posted but how I did so.

Rules is rules.

let you listen to music at work, or is that not allowed?

They would express astonishment that you are not a pretend soldier.

I always used my iPad and my own hotspot when in the office and used my own laptop or desktop when working at home (when I was still working). I knew there would probably be an "Agent Mike" somewhere in my agency and it sure as hell wasn't worth it.

Maybe keep a journal & cherry pick from it later when posting ok

Don't let my friends get hurt.

Much more important.

…it's a fair cop. I got a stern lecture when I was at Energy 20 years ago for merely SSH'ing in to my home computer from DoE gear, I can't say I'm surprised at your dressing down…

jeopardize your job. We will be here. Take care.

I suppose you can get a personal phone and post on that thing, although phone texting to an online site might suck all the joy out of the process.

At my last job, I showed my coworkers how to erase their tracks at the end of the shift. The PTB never did install keyloggers so it was a quick and easy procedure.

That little peckerhead Texeira most likely ruined it for government workers, especially military. It's going to take a hell of a long time for it all to blow over.

I don't post during duty hours for the same reason. I look sometimes but don't post. If I feel a compelling need to add my two cents on something, I take my personal phone to someplace where I get signal (the Pentagon has lousy coverage for me, and that can be a good thing) and provide you all with my wisdom that way.

Some 40 years ago, my outfit started making noises when I was taking weekends off to play concerts with my Dutch friends in Holland and Germany. They said, make a choice, do you want to work or play? Well, I wanted to play, of course, but playing music made me a few hundred euros a month, and working paid about 50 times that, with the promise of more if I was good at my job. Bye-bye my fun gigs.

Posting on DU is different, though. That is a question of finding the time at all these days. I'm now station chief for Europe, so I don't have anyone breathing down my neck, but if I have to be in Germany in the morning, France at noon, and Belgium in the evening, the bigger challenge is staying awake, not getting permission!

Stay outta trouble will ya?

Thanks for the headzup.

Lots of jobs have a no personal use of internet policy, so responses from those folks are usually delayed, no problem. At least it's not a problem for me, I was under the same kind of corporate policies so completely understand.

We in the Navy could not use them to call home.

Just kidding. But before cells, about the time corporations were charging huge fees to make calls, we could not call home on Navy phones. It was considered
using government equipment for personal reasons. Especially don't use those huge bricks that first came out as mobile phones.

That stupid policy was quickly rescinded because so many family members calling to find out what happened to their loved ones. On shore, anytime a departments had to work late or had minor delays, the phones started ringing off the hook. Tying up lines and personnel for hours.

At least during your duty hrs. (he says nervously joking)

The tunes will be missed.

Target rich environment.

Kidding aside, I appreciate what you do MSgt.

You have to pretend that this is a solar light and not an actual candle.

when I was working, i would only watch DU from my computer, and wait until I arrived home to post. I never logged in from
work, I knew my former employer had keystroke monitors and didn’t want to take any chances.

So we’ll be patient for your ‘home grown’ posts!

As our own Skittles has said, “someone’s always here” for whenever you feel comfortable weighing in and being heard. We’ll always have weekends!

Just stay safe, okay?

Have some Philly Soul as a thank you.

O'Jays, "992 Arguments"

https://music.

&si=XY7pt6nEhHpP78qG

On the sweeter side, The Three Degrees, "When Will I See You Again"

https://music.&si=-ecZqM9Zw9FQoXzB

Maybe you just should have taken TS documents home and stored them in your bathroom. I hear that there's no punishment for that ...

Of Donald the Menace did

I can accidently take my cellphone into a SCIF, turn right around and go back out, and still face consequences. There's no such thing as equality before the eyes of the law. This is just something we peons have to live with...

It will come back to you and bite you in the butt.