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wind2000 · Sep 22, 2007

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eBay addicts fired for use during office hours

By Stevie Smith Sep 21, 2007, 13:55 GMT

The ongoing debate concerning Internet and social network access in the workplace is set to continue this week following news that a group of council workers in the UK have been fired from their positions after prolonged use of online auction site eBay.

Specifically, a total of nine members of staff at Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council in Wales have received their marching orders after some of them were found to be wasting as much as two hours per day perusing eBay’s pages.

Neath Port Talbot Council outlined the staff were removed following an investigation that revealed them to be investing a "significant time" in personal online activities during work time that included "an unacceptable level of usage of shopping [and] entertainment" destinations.

"We have a policy of allowing employees to use the internet in their own time… We know it benefits them as well as the council as they became more expert in using it and more IT-aware," commented council personnel chief Graham Jones in a BBC News report. "But we clearly don't want them to use it in council time – at the end of the day they are employed to do a job of work not be shopping online."

While the council, as an employer, is of course fully entitled to wield the axe for personal Internet use during office hours, Unison union representative Mark Fisher has also apportioned them blame for allowing employees to have Net access in the first place.

"Obviously we cannot justify people spending a couple of hours of working time looking at these sites," commented Fisher, "but temptation was put in their way."

The council’s office security set-up does currently block staff access to Web sites containing pornographic material but not innocuous shopping portals such as Amazon or eBay. Unison has called for the council’s 7,500 staff members to be restricted in their Internet access to that any and all personal destinations can only be visited during official lunch breaks.
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They must be seriously addicted to ebay to end up being fired.

Watch out Angie when you surf PA, otherwise we'll see you on the news

Dan · Sep 22, 2007

lol! cheeks is in big poop!

fearless_fx · Sep 22, 2007

lol 2 hours a day, thats alot of time to spend on ebay.

i usually spend only like 30 minutes a day at work on the net browsing digg and stuff when its not busy hahahaha

sundays i can spend like 2 hours on the net too though, cuz i usually have nothing at all to do

MissCheekS · Sep 22, 2007

Lol...me in big poop?
if they ever find out...maybe maybe....and i spend more than 2hours on PA i think haha
im a junkieee

chi_man · Sep 23, 2007

I think there are A LOT more people who surf on the net during work, but the bosses haven't found out yet like the boss of Angie

Taxloss · Sep 23, 2007

Spending 2 hours a day on eBay is way too much, even in your own time at home...but their laywer is trying to shove the fault at the employer. >.< If you don't allow your workers to have internet acces their unison union probably go moaning about it and using the same argument as the council had given, namely that it can benefit both the council as the personel if they get more experience. Those workers just proved they can't take their own responsibility which is why they're fired now.

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