Thank God for this site.

And thank all of you for keeping me entertained during the day.

 

More like 75% for me.

 

It's obvious to me that most of us spend up to 75% of our waking hours on this site (ahem Vyrus, RedMaxPA007, SprintMax and a few others, uh myself included (hey, even the non-superPimp Maxes have to represent).

That being said, I've got to go check out the 4th Gen, Canada, Group Deals, Parts for Sale and Audio forums once I'm done with the General Discussion one...

Talk later, real busy.

Mike

 

Work is for fools. The org is where the real fun is!

 

Probably close to 10% for me. But still too much!

I wonder what people did before the internet. Too much work is what I'm guessing.

 

I am in my slow season. So little do do thank god for this site as well as autopia.org!

 

Hi Erica! I've met some great people on here.

 

Autopia is a great site but they are a bit too fanatical for me. The amount of information on that site and the knowledge of some of the contributors is incredible. I can only visit that site in small doses lest I become one of the fanatics.

Anyone know of a good BMW forum/site besides dtmpower.net and bimmer.org (roadfly)? I'm considering getting an E46 but I haven't yet found a site that contains the wealth of information that maxima.org does.

As for work, thank god my monitor is turned away from the door in my office.

 

www.e46fanatics.com is better.

 

25% HERE.

 

It used to be 80%
then dwindled down to 50%
by the time I hit my maximaniac status....
it dropped to 10%.
Now it's only about 2%.

Am I growing up?

 

hahahaha...hi, Tom

 

75+% here....

 

80% here.

 

IByouallgetfired

 

65% for me.

 

when i worked over the summer i say i spent about 6-7 hours on this site out of my 8 hours at work. it was crazy. now that school started i feel like i never spend enough time on the site. there are some days i dont even get to get on the org!!

 

That's what I'm worried about. Do they make software to keep track (read SPY) on us?

 

They sure do. Check out www.websense.com

 

Reality check: If people can spend 50-75% of their day on one website, add in other websites and we're probably talking 84-89%, with the remainder for lunch. How important to the organization is such an employee? Kinda a state worker mentality, no need to buy software to track their activity. Block certain sites and let them be imho. If there's any performance evaluation that's where the system takes care of itself.

 

Same here. I'm logged into Maxima.org at least 75% of the day. I'm probably actively browsing/posting 33% of the day. hahaha...
Everybody here knows exactly what I'm looking at when they walk by...but dammit I can't help it if I love my Max!

 

wow I don't spend THAT much time here heh. I just like to be goofy here.

 

Mike

 

i love maxima.org!

 

Gotta love America!

 

All kidding aside there's no nation like the USA. We can all trace our ancestors back to another part of the world, be it Europe, Asia, etc. No-show and no-work jobs are only on the Sopranos, and maybe civil service. Most people work pretty hard. Some people work really hard for no money too. I used to date a girl who made, now get this, $19,000 in Manhattan and she lived in Flushing. She b***** all day and night about her salary and rightfully so imho. I think she could have advanced but she was a man-hater or something!

 

even if you dont have a maxima. I LOVE THE ORG and at time I hate the org, it always makes me laugh, thanks emerald

 

Before I got my Maxima I spent some good amount of time on here learning different things. Once I got it well lets just say I spent way too much time on here. But I have learned a lot of stuff in the process.

SuDZ

 

at least once a day I think

"Hey, there might be new projectors out, or a new mod that gets us like 5-10 more hp...I better check the Org. right when I get home."

enjoy the Org.

 

here is the cerebral maxima time for me


at work: 4hrs
at home: 2hrs
at school: 2hrs
sleeping: 8hrs
sleeping in class: 4hrs
talking about max: 4hrs
total maxima time: 24hrs/day

well, maybe not that much, but its a really great resource and im on here alot.

 

i put this website over my college work, and thats not good. my roomate calls me maxima obsessed. i need maximas anonymous help.

 

I work at an online Advertising agency. Part of my job is to monitor the amount of Ads we send out during the day and analyze the patterns.

the interesting thing is that we server 2x more ads on a Wednesday afternoon as opposed to a weekend afternoon.

People are browsing the Internet FAR more at work than at home.

Also, people are on the Internet 200% more in the US than all of Europe combined. US is also many times more than Africa and the Middle East.

But get this: Most Internet traffic comes from China! About 10% more than the US.

IanS

 

I was sent to Stockholm in the summer of 19997 and met a chick there, and I noticed 2 things. They had handheld cell phones in rampant use when we did not--that was 5 years ago. Also, telecommunication resources were pretty much you pay for what you use, roughly 8-10 cents per minute for a local call. That means no free internet for them (untimed). I would think that would have changed with broadband but not sure.

There's no doubt that everyone up to the CEO uses the internet. I've walked into the CIO's office and he was dointg some shopping on the web. But still, to say one spends 50% or more of their time on it, they need to reevaluate if they want a job or not imho.

 

It depends on the job. My team at work is a Network Operations Center and is fully reactive to things breaking. If things aren't breaking, they're documenting procedures, if there's no procedures to document, then I have no reason to tell them not to browse the Internet, as long as they also keep an eye on all the monitors.

Hell, I let them play Asheron's Call on the weekends. It keeps their minds active.

IanS