# Enough Rope To Hang Himself... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 20, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-rope-to-hang-himself/464395 "2008-09-20T02:34:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![drpepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@drpepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drpepper)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-rope-to-hang-himself/464395/21 "2008-09-21T02:01:21Z")
> [@si\_blakely](#): > > 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: > > Si See, it’s stories like this + the OP that make me wonder what the _hell_ people are thinking after one warning. One warning and I’d be fucking **mortified**. Mortified that at least a couple other people in the company _know_ what a little perverted slime I am, that I don’t have the self-discipline to keep it confined to my personal hours, and furthermore know that my job is, to a degree, in jeopardy. I’d be keeping my head ve-eeeeery low and my ear to the ground and my nose to the grindstone, and a hundred other metaphors, hoping that eventually, in a few years, due to attrition, I’ll outlast the HR and IT people that _know_, and earn back at least a clean slate reputation. Addiction my ass. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-rope-to-hang-himself/464395/22 "2008-09-21T02:23:26Z")
Next time, could you plese define the word tranny!? Searching for it myself was a bad idea. :shudders: ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-rope-to-hang-himself/464395/23 "2008-09-21T02:40:29Z")
> [@pedescribe](#): > > Next time, could you plese define the word tranny!? Searching for it myself was a bad idea. :shudders: I think it’s folks who get off on automobile transmissions. Watching those gears mesh together, that’s really hot. Ooh, double clutch me baby, just the way I like it. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-rope-to-hang-himself/464395/24 "2008-09-21T06:50:50Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > 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. > > Or am I just being a nerd? No, you’re correct. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-rope-to-hang-himself/464395.md?page=1)