# POLL: Why was this employee fired? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 6, 2017, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-why-was-this-employee-fired/792886 "2017-08-06T01:47:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-why-was-this-employee-fired/792886/21 "2017-08-06T15:21:45Z")
There are all kinds of computer-related offenses people can be fired for that are not related to porn. For example, I’ve known two people fired from state agencies for using their work computers to do work related to outside businesses. IF, hypothetically, a programmer was selling Amway products on the side and was using his work PC to keep track of his sales and customers, he could be fired for that. Or for using his computer to run a big fantasy football league. Or any number of non-sexual things. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-why-was-this-employee-fired/792886/22 "2017-08-06T15:27:18Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > I know the answer already, but there are reasons why I want to solicit others’ responses. So, why did you want others to guess at something you already knew? ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-why-was-this-employee-fired/792886/23 "2017-08-06T16:40:14Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > So, why did you want others to guess at something you already knew? Because she wanted to dish about some rando, but didn’t want to be obvious about it. Duh! ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-why-was-this-employee-fired/792886/24 "2017-08-06T17:37:05Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > So, why did you want others to guess at something you already knew? Isn’t that why people go to psychics?😛 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-why-was-this-employee-fired/792886/25 "2017-08-06T17:59:54Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > So, why did you want others to guess at something you already knew? To see if child porn is what would come to mind if a colleague were fired in that manner. This is what a number of people thought it was, because it made more sense than adult porn. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-why-was-this-employee-fired/792886/26 "2017-08-06T19:45:47Z")
They discovered that he was posting to the Straight Dope Message Board during work time. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-why-was-this-employee-fired/792886/27 "2017-08-06T19:53:55Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Layla was a wreck over this. She asked me why they had waited so long. I said they were probably building a case. Maybe they were waiting until a pornography-sniffing dog became available. [That’s how Jared got caught.](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/porn-sniffing-dog-helped-bring-down-subway-star-jared-fogle-n415826) ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-why-was-this-employee-fired/792886/28 "2017-08-06T20:24:29Z")
The belief that it was adult porn was bolstered by the “mo immediate arrest” thing. Perhaps the stuff was of a “marginal” character since the tendency is to advertise as “teens” any female on the low side of thirty. Plus there is the whole “Traci Lords” type of scenario in which an underage model credibly represents herself as being legal. If the guy was arrested five years later it may be that the initial download put him on the radar screen and he didn’t download anything illegal until much later, and perhaps then only inadvertently. (Not that the download was inadvertent, but that it was illegal.) It’s my understanding (mostly from SVU and other such questionable sources) that most of the kiddie stuff that makes no bones about being that is only to be found through the so-called “dark web”. I do readily admit, though, that I don’t know any of this for certain. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-why-was-this-employee-fired/792886/29 "2017-08-06T20:44:20Z")
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