Well, I found out first thing this morning that I supplied a fellow employee the last bit of rope he needed to tie the noose around his own neck.
One would think that after the second time he was caught looking at trannie porn at work and was warned that any further looking at the porn or other adult sites would result in his termination that he would refrain from doing so at work and confine his adult viewing activities to home. One would especially think this would be the case since he was up for a promotion to a VP position. One would be wrong.
I hate the guy lost his job. He’s got a wife and two kids and now isn’t the best time to be job hunting. On the other hand, when one is that stupid, one sort of deserves what one gets.
Actually, after 25 years as a drone in corporate America, I’ve frequently found the upper management to be the worst offenders in this regard. An attitude of “the rules don’t apply to me” or “I’m too valuable to be fired” isn’t that unusual.
I don’t feel sorry for him. For his FAMILY, yes, but not him.
That’s a whole different rant on why the firewall isn’t setup properly. Though it isn’t wide open, he did have to figure out some way around it the admittedly weak filtering.
I was the IT sneak assigned to confirm he was, in fact, going to porn sites again of his own volition, and that it wasn’t a virus or other malware making a connection to questionable sites without his knowledge.
Our internet filtering alerted us that his PC, logged on under his username was repeatedly accessing an adult site. We get a handful of these alerts each day. Anywhere from 0 to 6 for the whole company is not unusual. The overwhelming majority of the time, we ignore this stuff. It’s usually someone looking at sports scores or looking for a job or that sort of thing.
This particular guy however, had triggered at least a half-dozen alerts each day for three days. I confirmed there was no virus and no malware, that the user was accessing these sites and trying to hide the fact from IT by various (inexpert) means. The filtering should have blocked the pages, but it didn’t. I would like to say that i would be assigned to look into it in more detail, but I’m not holding my breath on it.
Am I the only one who opened this thread thinking there was some poor employee who had been stock-piling rope, buying 2 feet each week on a meager salary, and you just happened to sell him the last 2 feet to complete his 8-foot noose?
But yeah, porn + work = bad… unless you work in the porn industry I assume.
Hmm. Okay then. You didn’t really give him “enough rope to hang himself”.
If he asked for a URL to porn and you gave it to him, unaware that it would cost him his job, then sure, that would fit. If you were actively aware of his behaviour and the risks involved, and then, through circumstance, didn’t warn him, then maybe. But the reason you didn’t warn him was as part of your job as an IT detective, so it isn’t really fulfilling the intent of the phrase.
I interviewed at Playboy. One of the jobs discussed was browsing the web and newsgroups looking for Playboy images. Presumably reading non-porn sites would be reason for firing.
Interestingly, every single person I talked to at Playboy was female. They have difficulty hiring men due to the jealous wife and girlfriend factor.
Many years ago, I was an IT consultant to a Power Generation Facility. This facility had one of the better connections to the internet available at the time. After their onsite admin was fired for inappropriate Internet use, (he almost had a CD full of porn on his PC) they hired a new member of staff who was assigned the task of rewriting the Internet Usage policy.
Yep. After one weekend, the proxy logs showed some inappropriate web usage, and the only person signed in to the building was the IT staffer responsible for the new Internet Usage policy. :smack:
We got to review his activities. Coprophagia Porn is :eek:
At least he did not misuse the companies Digital Camera and email servers like his predecessor. I got to recover all that email activity for the bosses. And the emails were going to an email box that may or may not have belonged to his wife :rolleyes:
And I had worked with and liked both of them. <sigh>. They were both idiots in the end, and I found it hard to look them in the eye afterwards (and in the case of the guy with the camera, I wasn’t looking anywhere else either - and I wasn’t shaking hands with him, ever).
Playboy Enterprises has been run by Christie Hefner for over 25 years. I wonder why more womens-empowerment seminars don’t point to it as one of the world’s most successful woman-run companies! Or maybe they do…
I once ran an internet service provider. We provided access and support to a porn site. It was, from time to time, necessary to verify their site was working properly. Of course, I was the only employee given a real login and password to their live cam feeds, which the other employees (all male) were deeply jealous of.
Male Coworker Geek: Gimme the password Auntbeast!
Auntbeast: Newp.
MCG: I’ll buy ya lunch!
AB: Newp.
MCG: I’ll wash your car!
AB: Newp.
(AB logs in)
MCG: Awwww, let me see! (whine)
AB: Newp. Nice tatas on this one.
MCG: (weeps)
Or maybe they do…