No Sh**, there I was...

[thalionar.livejournal.com]

minding my own business, reading LJ, listening to Ska, Punk and Other Junk on Live 365 when a call comes in. I quickly mute the radio, and answer the call.

Note: on the phone, I am a very cheerful Southern woman. I don't think I sound stupid, and I KNOW I'm not stupid. Nor naive. Also, I do tech support for a manufacturing company producing durable medical goods.

Guy on the other end, sounds older, from "up north" somewhere, and he is reading me the riot act about how he can't access a site that he visits all the time, and is there a problem with the internet, etc, etc, etc. Whoa. Back up. What's the site he's trying to access? Nina Hartley's blog. Uh huh. And what's the message? Oh? that it's been blocked by company internet policy? Imagine that. Well, sir, I *could* put in a ticket for you and see if security would unblock NINA HARTLEY's blog, but umm... somehow I doubt it. But I can put it in, you know, it does require MANAGEMENT APPROVAL. Oh, I see by the notes in your ticket history that you are a manager. Yeah. Uh huh, that's what I thought. Have a nice day.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!

NINA HARTLEY!!!!

*gasps for breath*

xposted to my journal and to techsupport

Comments

[fearrett.livejournal.com]

Who the hell is Nina Hartley?

[inahandbasket]

I said the same thing.
wikipedia has an entry on her, BDSM feminist porn stuff. ^_^

[foobarintel.livejournal.com]

nina.com baby!

[thalionar.livejournal.com]

short answer: Porn Star

longer answer: one of the best known, most articulate adult film actresses out there. I actually admire Nina Hartley, wouldn't want to *be* her, mind you, but as far as porn stars goes, she's pretty cool.

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

Damn Man,

She had The Perfect Tanline on her Perfectly Shaped Bottom!

[absurdwords.livejournal.com]

*googles Nina Hartley*
*dies laughing*

[phaedra-13.livejournal.com]

He actually ADMITTED it was Nina's site?? Wow.

Stupidity never ceases to amuse me.

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

I had basically this exact same issue occur, only with match.com, twice. In one week. The only two times in over a year of working there. It was fucking bizarre.

[jecook]

::head DESK::

If they unblock that site, they'd have to unlock, say, playboy.com as well...

At my place, such sites as deviantart are banned due to the fact that there is occasional nudity on there that their own filters don't catch. (along with a few other 'harmless' sites, such as various and sundry shopping sites, and a few firearms sites.)

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

This is why I love having a site one click off the corporate intranet homepage for submitting URLs to the web team (fortunately, not us) to be unlocked.

"Yes sir, the web team has an unlocker you can use - just type in the address you want unlocked..." (and hang up before the caller discovers that they also have to put in their name, userID, phone number, and a business case for unlocking the site.)

Even better is being able to say "No sir, management has not given me the unlock access. That's done by some other team in some other building whose details we haven't been given. We don't even know who's in charge of it or what their contact number is. Fortunately, they've put an unlocker page on the intranet, let me help you click to it..."

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Oh for fuck's sake. That just epitomises the Peter Principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle).

Do people get fired there for porn on their machines? Maybe one of the desktop support bods should call by for some "routine checks"...

[thalionar.livejournal.com]

Do people get fired there for porn on their machines?

I believe so, yes, and I know that machines are looked at for such things (also games, etc) when they're in the shop for problems. I don't think anyone from deskside could be convinced to drop by though. They don't *like* getting folks in trouble, especially as they actually *know* these people, as opposed to me, who is several states away, in my home, who doesn't really care about them or know what they look like.

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

Haha, that's like our users telling us they need to get to Myspace for "legitimate business purposes." Not in the defense industry, you don't. MAYBE if you worked in entertainment.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Is it sad that I didn't even have to look up who that is?

[thalionar.livejournal.com]

dude, I knew who it was, which was why it was so funny.

[meandean.livejournal.com]

Nina Hartley? She's the porn star that didn't run for governor of California a couple years ago.

[thalionar.livejournal.com]

Exactly ^_^