Saturday, May 13, 2006

I'm onto something.

Posted by Lucas Green

So, I think I've figured out the secret plan.
In my job we are supposed to be reviewing text advertisements and approving or rejecting them but, there are very few ads. In the past week I've only done six ads and that is not a whole lot at all! (You can do one ad in like 3 minutes tops sometimes. It's actually more accurate to count how many keywords i've gone over since some ads have thousands of them and some ads have like one but whatever this thing is going on too long and I don't think you're allowed to have over a certain character limit inside parenthesis.)
Anyway, they let us surf the internet when we don't have ads, which is usually all damn day. The trick is they don't allow certain things; porn is forbidden because we are at work (duh) and they don't allow streaming audio or video because they say it takes up too much bandwidth. I can understand these two but the other things are a bit more fishy. We can't check Myspace (not that I'm crying about it, it's just a rule) and we can't play flash games or chat or even write in blogs. I am breaking that last rule right now, sshhhh.
So, basically my hypothesis is this.
This is all an experiment. The ideas is that the internet has a much grander use than what it is most commonly being used for so, they take away the biggest distractions (porn, audio, video, MySpace, flash games, chatting) to find out what we do with this wonderful tool.
I think the outcome of our work will be very important but, I'll never contribute to the answer if I keep breaking the rules and writing in this blog and chatting with my friends on my Gmail account.
Back to work!

1 comments:

Hasphat said...

You're a pawn in their game of URL chess.