Workplaces regularly filter what Internet sites can and can’t be viewed on employees’ computers. Lots of places don’t allow workers on Facebook or other social media sites, and many block access to YouTube-like sites that can eat up bandwidth with streaming video or audio. And, of course, porn is likely a no-no as well.
Anyway, you get the point — some software with some choice keywords and you’re blocked from even more sites.
The word ‘douchebag’ looks like it was recently added to the Cleveland Clinic’s list of keywords, because MedCity News reports that Clinic employees can no longer access
HotChicksWithDouchebags.com, if you didn’t know, is a veritable cornucopia of pictures of douchey guys with beautiful women (the title, after all, is pretty self-explanatory).
This article appears in Dec 15-21, 2010.
