How much time at work do you spend at this forum???

[tpinchback]

Just curious

[Belmondo]

I'm sorry, I can't use any of the answers you've offered. I'm retired. Still, I probably spend about an hour a day in the forum---less than I used to, but I'm running out of things to say.

[John_T]

How come the triple posting?

You could delete the other two, the X up in the corner there...

[scottbergerphoto]

Sure, why not just fill out my own referral to Labor Relations for a disciplinary hearing? :shock: I'll pass.
(Did that just sound like robertgross or am I becoming a curmudgeon in my own right? :lol: )
Scott

[Ikinaa]

Hope my boss doesn't read this...
When I come to work in the morning, I open the forum-page, check if there any replis to my posts, then click on the link : 'View posts since last visit', scroll through the posts, open those which subject is interesting.
Then I leave the page open for the whole day, and every 30 minutes or so (depends on the work), I refresh the page to see the new additions.
If my boss reads this : The forum doesn't affect my work, it's in the small pauses while I'm waiting for the computer to react that I participate in forum... :P

[neil_r]

None, It's blocked. We must have the tightest firewall in the world and the most draconian web filters. Mind you Sasser still got through and we had to rebuild 4 300 seat Call Centres overnight !

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[Scottes]

I'm pretty much like Ikinaa, though I have many short pauses in work waiting for tests to finish.

[shniks]

I spend way too much time in here while at work, as it has been really quiet there lately. I guess you could say I have a great job, but to be honest I get sick of it, and when work comes in I jump out of my seat to do it! Thankfully this forum fills time in between.
Sometimes I wonder why workplaces allow use of the internet. My last job did not have it, and I used any spare time to come up with new projects or do the jobs everyone didn't want to do.

[Ikinaa]

I'm pretty much like Ikinaa, though I have many short pauses in work waiting for tests to finish.

I meant those pauses :P I'm a software developer, so everytime I deploy some new classes to the Application-server, I have to wait 3 to 5 minutes until it's up again...
Ok... sometimes I continue problem-search during reboot... :twisted:

[Scottes]

I meant those pauses :P I'm a software developer, so everytime I deploy some new classes to the Application-server, I have to wait 3 to 5 minutes until it's up again...
Ok... sometimes I continue problem-search during reboot... :twisted:

Security SQA/Devel here. So I start a traffic test and wait 1-5 minutes for it to either break or finish. If it breaks I either figure out the problem and fix it or bounce it back to one of the real developers. If it actually finishes then I figure out a way to get it to break so I *have* to bounce it back to the real developers. (They love me, they really do.)

If I can't break it, I get very depressed.

[Ikinaa]

I meant those pauses :P I'm a software developer, so everytime I deploy some new classes to the Application-server, I have to wait 3 to 5 minutes until it's up again...
Ok... sometimes I continue problem-search during reboot... :twisted:

Security SQA/Devel here. So I start a traffic test and wait 1-5 minutes for it to either break or finish. If it breaks I either figure out the problem and fix it or bounce it back to one of the real developers. If it actually finishes then I figure out a way to get it to break so I *have* to bounce it back to the real developers. (They love me, they really do.)

If I can't break it, I get very depressed.

Ah... you're one of those :? :P I got some of these here too... Everything works fine with the application, I give it to *them*, 5 minutes later they come back with some weird error.
I think QA have a weird mind...
they always come up with something :P

[Scottes]

Well, I *certainly* have a weird mind. I was never a QA person. I spent 15 years running LANs & WANs and then building websites and running Unix - all of this mixed with tech support. I got this job as tech support but found that I discovered more bugs than the entire 6-member SQA team put together. So they moved me to SQA, and I put those years of experience using the system as an end-user would, not as a SQA person would.

Needless to say, I shake and bake our products to early untimely deaths. My job isn't to prove that it works, my job is to break it.

Normally developers would hate me, but since I know how to break it I usually know exactly what went wrong. Many times I've given them the code that's broken and the code that fixes the bug. I probably spend 1/3 of my time as a developer and the other 2/3 as SQA.

And I *still* find as many bugs as the rest of the team put together.

[cmM]

let's just say I spend more than I should.
But I need small breaks... My job's pretty monotone, and there's a chance I might get hypnotized, or pass out... so I come here instead. 8)

[Bruce Hamilton]

None, but not because I don't want to... My bus lacks internet access. :lol:

[Laziferous]

None here too. My time on the computer at work is normally spent communicating with a PLC... or at automationdirect.com ordering more PLC's :lol:

[Penguin_101_1]

None, but not because I don't want to... My bus lacks internet access. :lol:

WiFi :D Also they make cell phones that on the internet.

Or just say you we getting tired about 8:01am and run over to your nearest Starbucks, McDonalds, St. Louis Bread Co., Panera Bread (sp?)

[Mills]

VeryVeryVeryVery Little.

[CyberDyneSystems]

The question is;

"How much work do you actually get done while reading and posting at the Canon Digital Forums.."? ? ?

ROFLMAO!

[pradeep1]

Well I work for my own company. That means that anything I do is work, since I am the boss. So even posting on this site is work, right? If that is the case, then I spend no time posting to this forum.

Actually, this forum should form itself into a non-profit corporation and then allow the people who contribute frequently here to take tax deductions against their income for their time and expertise they are donating to this site?

Now wouldn't that be cool. The Canon Photography Forum, Inc. a non-profit corporation for the disemination of photographic information and the betterment of the world through photography.

Maybe we could be classified as a religion and get even more benefits!

What do you guys think?