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FlatspinZA said:
Why did you bother posting if you had no intention other than to wheedle your way out of culpability? You made a mistake, just as everyone else in your office did - show them you have a spine.
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My post was not a brag or seek attention, it was a request on the information that they could trace, so it would help me make a decision. My first thought was to surrender.

I suggest you go to your Mom and apologise for the cookies you stole when you were 5. You have not even asked what the download was, yet you want to impose your moral high ground on me.

If you are not going to contribute, please post a different thread "Lets kick Roadkill2 in the nads" and send me the link. I will gladly entertain you on that post.
 
this sounds entertaining, i really want to know the outcome.

this is a real ****ty predicament you facing
 
Heres what you do:

You already know....

Run a papsmear on your smoothwall support and destroy your stiffys.
Once that is done confront your boss with or without a rabid gerbil and tell him.
Technically you CAN be caught, and you feel obviously guilty.

Have 3 more beers, sleep on it and the answer will hit you first thing in the morning.

Thanks for all the entertainment Roadkill2.
 
Once again, 6GB's is pathetic unless you're paying for extremely high priorities on some, or other, protocol. Since you obviously don't have IT staff that control what goes on in your network I doubt it. Tell your boss the truth & advise him that the SA market has changed in terms of bandwidth usage. Seriously, what can your co-workers have been gaining out of 6GB's worth of BW? Squat! If it means you & your co-workers paying R50 a month each for muchos gigs, is that going to break your budget? Make your work place a better environment where you don't have to hide the crap you start with your PC during lunch hour & a place where it might just be OK to say hello to your China on FB in the hopes of garnering more business for your firm. The Internet is an amazing tool & the sooner businesses realize this , the better.
 
FlatspinZA said:
Once again, 6GB's is pathetic unless you're paying for extremely high priorities on some, or other, protocol. Since you obviously don't have IT staff that control what goes on in your network I doubt it. Tell your boss the truth & advise him that the SA market has changed in terms of bandwidth usage. Seriously, what can your co-workers have been gaining out of 6GB's worth of BW? Squat! If it means you & your co-workers paying R50 a month each for muchos gigs, is that going to break your budget? Make your work place a better environment where you don't have to hide the crap you start with your PC during lunch hour & a place where it might just be OK to say hello to your China on FB in the hopes of garnering more business for your firm. The Internet is an amazing tool & the sooner businesses realize this , the better.
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I agree with you that, as a Company we are getting it with the rough side of a Pineapple, re ADSL, but they are old school. technically forward, but still stuck in the past with "The Internet". Skype is about as forward as they are, not even video skype.

They have not even asked for "Priorities" They most likely signed the original package about 7 years ago, and the provider has been riding them since on the old package.

What are the protocols you refer to?
 
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Roadkill2 said:
My post was not a brag or seek attention, it was a request on the information that they could trace, so it would help me make a decision. My first thought was to surrender.

I suggest you go to your Mom and apologise for the cookies you stole when you were 5. You have not even asked what the download was, yet you want to impose your moral high ground on me.

If you are not going to contribute, please post a different thread "Lets kick Roadkill2 in the nads" and send me the link. I will gladly entertain you on that post.
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Roadkill2 said:
I agree with you that, as a Company we are getting it with the rough side of a Pineapple, re ADSL, but they are old school. technically forward, but still stuck in the past with "The Internet". Skype is about as forward as they are, not even video skype.

They have not even asked for "Priorities" They most likely signed the original package about 7 years ago, and the provider has been riding them since on the old package.

What are the protocols you refer to?
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Your firm could have high-availability requirements for applications it runs. This could be in the form of any number of protocols upon which these applications rely - a prime example would be protocols that feed data to applications for realtime stock exchange operations. There're a whole whack of protocols any business could run (HTTP, SIP, SS7, SCTP, SMTP, ATM...) with emphasis on high availability.

If your boss would really like to find out where that BW went he will. It's not rocket science. I doubt he'd go to the trouble & is probably just peed off that he couldn't watch Ms Whatserface sucking Mr Whatsisface's tool when he wanted to.

He's not going to track you unless he seriously thinks somebody is abusing your meagre 6GB' of BW & putting the company's financial position in danger. I have done lots of things I never owned up to & regretted it for the rest of my life. With or without repercussions, guilt will crush you.

Just go to him & tell him it was an honest mistake & can he please move this company into the 21st century. You probably won't be caught out but you'll be doing yourselves all a favour by removing the pathetic limitation you currently have on your internet usage at the moment.
 
I cant believe you even negating a way to justify your stupidity and as they say, there are no pills for stupidity. Take a stand for once in your life or else you will continue to go through it always looking for the short-cut, taking the "gap", stealing office stationary, coffee and lets not forget the famous bog roll, cutting-in in traffic, that kind of thing. Once you have owned up you will feel an overwhelming sense of pride that you stood your ground and took your pain like a gamers left click button on his mouse, then write it off the life experience 'ol chap and move on. Thing is if you do not learn the first time will you continue to perform these "illegal" downloads when the Boss is not looking? If the answer is yes, your FIRED.
Regards Your Boss.

OK, that rant out of the way I have a solution to your dilemma OP. Very very easy really but if I blurt it out I too become complicit in this little soiree, non? Hmm, what to do.....
 
I've got a solution for you that should fix everything.

You mentioned the techie who does your IT is in on the month end downloading?

I'm assuming he has your works internet account info, talk to him, and top up the account with 4 gigs.

Sure your boss may notice that something is off with the figures, but he might just pass it off as some error.
 
@Sabrewolfy lol yes, it's a stretch with updates but better than viruses.

Agh, you'll do what you do. Nothing anyone says here will change that. I hope you own up and take whatever happens as it happens. If you were my employee I'd much rather that you fessed up and talked about it.

Good luck.
 
Dude stop being a weasel, man up and fess up. If your boss is as @nal as he sounds, he WILL track down the guilty party or probably make a decision which ends up being worse for everybody. They ban things like Facebook, they will start looking at everyone's internet usage. Bob over in accounts, that little flash game he plays when no one is looking? Yup, gone. Sarah the secretary? Her Pigg's Peak days are at an end. Half the office downloading some rubbishy little torrents? Gone.

And then he will find out about all the k@k thats being caught on in his office. He likes bean counting? Research some packages available online and propose it to him and show him how much money he can save. Protip: Get something stable, last thing you need is an ISP that goes down on a regular basis or is shaping the hell out of anything non HTTP. And trust me, you think being dishonest won't rock the boat? He knows the montly limit has been reached, that boat is well and truly starting to rock. You can stop the capsize, but you already reached the cap size :P See wut I did thar?

Your boss will respect you more for being honest. I know the technology impaired types, I work retail in a PC store. They are always angry and confused and they don't understand money translating in to intangible goods like the rest of the 21st century does, you just need to lay it out for them in a way they can process in their antiquated thought processes. I typed all this out in the hopes of making you understand a valuable life lesson, like most of the people in this thread have done. Don't waste it, if you make the wrong choice of being dishonest, no one is your friend and you will take the heat for everything. And then face mock and scorn. And unemployment.
 
saixbot said:
I cant believe you even negating a way to justify your stupidity and as they say, there are no pills for stupidity. Take a stand for once in your life or else you will continue to go through it always looking for the short-cut, taking the "gap", stealing office stationary, coffee and lets not forget the famous bog roll, cutting-in in traffic, that kind of thing. Once you have owned up you will feel an overwhelming sense of pride that you stood your ground and took your pain like a gamers left click button on his mouse, then write it off the life experience 'ol chap and move on. Thing is if you do not learn the first time will you continue to perform these "illegal" downloads when the Boss is not looking? If the answer is yes, your FIRED.
Regards Your Boss.

OK, that rant out of the way I have a solution to your dilemma OP. Very very easy really but if I blurt it out I too become complicit in this little soiree, non? Hmm, what to do.....
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When i am a cage driver, i never jump to the front of the queue on the road or park in the Disabled parking. My usage a month via "legit freeware" downloads a month at work is never more than 100meg. I sweat & feel guilt if its more. Never install IE Explorer 8 upgrades etc. Only nail it on the last day of the month.

I feel the guilt now cause its the first of 3rd of the month, therefore i am dipping into the Company cookie jar. Where as the end of the month i just finish off what the ISP takes /steals back.

As for the coffee, i openly admit to being a caffeen junkie. 13 cups a day since i was 9 has been the norm. Exept when i tried to quit and felt my eyeballs on my eyelids.
 
Garyvdh said:
sorry... I thought maybe you were mature enough to do the right thing here. Probably better that somebody more responsible gets your job.
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+1. Let "natural selection" inhibit those who are morally malignant, naturally, so that they may learn valuable experience about life and see that while doing the right thing is not always the easier path, it's the safest and more beneficial, ultimately. If this happened to me, and I owned up and my boss was too thick to accept my apology, then I'd make sure I find another job anyway, ASAP, as that kind of "boss" doesn't deserve to reap the the fat salary that my kind of work contributes to the company in the first place. It's like a chain really... keep the standards high collectively and your civilization will be safe, trustworthy, and prosperous =) Apologise, it's really the easiest way out if your boss is rational... this might even be a catalyst for your good reputation: It's often difficult to prove yourself by doing the obvious good things, but when you make a mistake and apologise, your honesty factor is far more conspicuous
 
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Eish... The moral indignation of this thread has such sour breath. Road2kill, bam that bandwidth until you move on, or move on up. Using company bandwidth is not a cardinal sin - so many guys here have hang-ups from their childhood/teen years, or they suffer from that 'bible rightousness' that was so malignant in our previously suffocating patriarchal society structures/institutions. Paper is paper, bandwidth is bandwidth, use what is needed, and if there is any left over that might find an alternative use, please, please, please make use of it. All this over a pre-paid consumable service that will see the same end result come month end. It seems to me that besides the overwhelming self-rightous substance of the thread, many of these guys are probably wishing they were the techies 'investigating' who's being a 'bad bandwidth boy' at work. 4:00 in the morn, I'm hungry and sleepy. Oh yeah, turn off bit-torrent tonight, k :D
 
WatchMan said:
All this over a pre-paid consumable service that will see the same end result come month end.
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It's a capped account, so if the OP caps part/most of the account on the 4th of June for the MONTH what impact do you think this may have on the final bill for June? Taking into consideration that the company still requires the use of internet & e-mail? So, no, I disagree with you, it won't be the same end result come month end. The company will end up paying more than their budget for Internet... This is why OP must confess, offer to pay for what he used and move on.
 
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It's a capped account, so if the OP caps part/most of the account on the 4th of June for the MONTH what impact do you think this may have on the final bill for June? Taking into consideration that the company still requires the use of internet & e-mail? So, no, I disagree with you, it won't be the same end result come month end. The company will end up paying more than their budget for Internet... This is why OP must confess, offer to pay for what he used and move on.
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@ the don If you read the entire thread, you would have seen that i accidently left the torrent on when i got to work. Only do it at the end of the month. In truth i only started end of last month. But the junior techie has been doing it for months. So because i am in the sop, i will drop everyone else.
I want to confess, but trying to minmise the impact it would have. As i said, i never once said that i would not pay.
 
Roadkill2 said:
@ the don If you read the entire thread, you would have seen that i accidently left the torrent on when i got to work. Only do it at the end of the month. In truth i only started end of last month. But the junior techie has been doing it for months. So because i am in the sop, i will drop everyone else.
I want to confess, but trying to minmise the impact it would have. As i said, i never once said that i would not pay.
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You profess one thing but your selective replies and comments give you away. If your intention was to minimize the 'impact' on colleagues you wouldn't have started this thread and/or would have pages ago posted "OK I'm going to do the honest thing and let him know Friday/Monday".

All I read is "How can I get out of this". Personally I'd stop posting looking for ways to justify the result. You have the weekend to think about it...do the right thing ;)
 
Wtf are you even torrenting at work? Irrespective of whether the bandwidth will go to waste at the end of the month or not.

The network belongs to the company, the bandwidth belongs to the company, the pc belongs to the company.

I will have no sympathy for you if you get fired.
 
I heard the reason this happened to him was because he restarted his laptop using bittorrent with a download in progress.
He should never have set the application to open when windows starts.
Accidents happen but had he just optimised his scheduling better, this could have been avoided.

What has Roadkill2 finally decided to do about his predicament?
 
to the OP:

I have read most but not all of the thread....

Own up - honesty - the best policy!

What is your companies view on dishonesty?
If they decide to have the matter investigated you stand a chance of losing your job. they could probably hold you responsible for the costs too.

Say you did it. Pay for replacement cap. Sleep better at night :)

people calm down easier if people are honest about mistakes. Hiding it makes it look as though you intentionally did it with no regard for company policy.

You could do a lil homework &give them options with bigger packages for similar to what they pay now or less. They might relax a lil about the net then.

You can find something positive in this if you look closly at it.

A lesson has been learnt - I trust.
 
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