History Main / NotSafeForWork

Incidentally, get back to work before [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife your boss notices you slacking off by browsing this site]]!

A common internet warning, usually denoting a picture or video that you wouldn't want to show up when you are surfing the web at work. It's one thing to look up the latest news, check your email or play Solitaire. It's another to be looking at [[UsefulNotes/{{Pornography}} porn]]. Anything with nudity in it at all will often be labelled thus, on the off chance that a passing observer simply ''thinks'' you might be looking at porn.

So called because if you are caught reading a page that is Not Safe For Work at work, you can get fired. For the more graphic [=NSFW=] pages, even having them in the hard drive or cache of a work computer can get you fired. Even showing up in the server log files could be unhealthy.

[=NSFW=] can be applied to vulgar or violent, as well as pornographic, content. Also applied as a near-synonym for {{Squick}}. It may also be applied if the link requires sound, as not a lot of people have headphones at work (or should be wearing headphones, depending on the job).

* ''Webcomic/{{Curtailed}}'' does occasionally descend into NSFW status. For instance, [[http://www.curtailedcomic.com/comic/sketchbook-nsfw/ this sketchbook entry]], which features [[NoOSHACompliance a disconnected fire alarm and blocked fire exit]].

[[caption-width-right:167:"My eyes! My favourite eyes!"]]

Just in case you are still not clear on what this means, go to [[DarthWiki/NotSafeForWork this page]] when you have privacy. Then ask yourself, do you really want your boss in the room when you're looking at that stuff?

A common internet warning, usually denoting a picture or video that you wouldn't want to show up when you are surfing the web at work. It's one thing to look up the latest news, check your email or play Solitaire. It's another to be looking at [[UsefulNotes/{{Pornography}} porn]]. Anything with nudity in it at all is expected to be labelled thus, on the off chance that a passing observer simply ''thinks'' you might be looking at porn.

Also applies to school, of course. Usually even being caught simply going to casual sites like Website/YouTube, Website/{{Facebook}}, or {{Dailybooth}} can get you in pretty big trouble there; being caught looking at anything deemed "pornographic" will guarantee a trip to the vice principal's office, plus several detentions, or a suspension, or even expulsion if you're a repeat offender.

A common internet warning, usually denoting a picture or video that you wouldn't want to show up when you are surfing the web at work. It's one thing to just look up the latest news or check your email. It's another to be looking at [[UsefulNotes/{{Pornography}} porn]]. Anything with nudity in it at all will often get labeled thus, on the off chance that a passing observer simply ''thinks'' you might be looking at porn.

Also applies to school, of course. Usually even being caught simply going to sites like Website/YouTube, Website/{{Facebook}}, or {{Dailybooth}} can get you in pretty big trouble there; being caught looking at anything "pornographic" will guarantee a trip to the vice principal's office, plus several detentions, or a suspension, or something similar.

* [=NSFL=]: Not Safe For Life/[[NauseaFuel Lunch]].

Also applies to school, of course. Usually even being caught simply going to sites like Website/YouTube, {{Facebook}}, or {{Dailybooth}} can get you in pretty big trouble there; being caught looking at anything "pornographic" will guarantee a trip to the vice principal's office, plus several detentions, or a suspension, or something similar.

* Does your URL include [[ImageBoards "chan"]] or "[[ImageBooru booru]]"? Then it qualifies.

* [=NSFS=]: Not Safe For School.

* Not quite on topic, but Creator/GeorgeMacDonaldFraser's novel ''ThePyrates'' mentions a three-tier rating system upper class British girls had for upper class British boys (apparently referring to danger to one's virginity) that included, in ascending order of peril, Not Safe At Vauxhall, Not Safe In Sedan Chairs and Not Safe Anywhere.

** [[{{Snopes}} Snopes.com]] uses this phrase to denote its sex-related entries.

* [=NFYOSS=]: Not Fourteen-Year-Old Sister Safe -- for anything you wouldn't want the hypothetical sister to see. Mostly used on the ''UserFriendly'' MessageBoard, but sometimes seen elsewhere.

* [=NSFL=]: Not Safe For Life/Lunch.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be]] [[UnfortunateImplications mistaken for]] [[VideoGame/NeedForSpeed a video game that shares the same acronym]].

A common internet warning, usually denoting a picture or video that you wouldn't want to show up when you are surfing the web at work. It's one thing to just look up the latest news or check your email. It's another to be looking at porn. Anything with nudity in it at all will often get labeled thus, on the off chance that a passing observer simply ''thinks'' you might be looking at porn.

* ''FarmSluts''

* Bikini pics are often flagged as "Mildly [=NSFW=]", since they aren't outright porn, but it would still look like you are slacking off if the boss sees them.

* Not Safe For Wallet

A common internet warning, usually denoting a picture or video that you wouldn't want to show up when you are surfing the web at work. It's one thing to just look up the latest news or check your email. It's another to be looking at porn. Anything with nudity in it at all will usually often get labeled thus, on the off chance that a passing observer simply ''thinks'' you might be looking at porn.

* This trope gets a name-drop in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' during the mission "Friend Request", where Michael has to do a pop-up clicking minigame for Rickie Luckens because he clicked on a "totally NSFW link".