Guest cookoff013 Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 a guy at my work got caught downloading porn, usually its a dismissal, but he got caught twice. is it just my work that tolerates it or is it commonplace. it was just the sheer volume that was amazing. so do you know anyone that downloads "at work" ? its very disturbing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVB Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Instant dismissal at my place. People get the elbow for a lot less than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tug Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 We have a very robust IT&Security policy that you must "click to accept" every 28 days. Personal use is restricted to 30 minutes a day, and must take place in a recognised break time... We can't even get on the lottery website because it's "gambling" and I cannot access the BBS, PW or HL forums because they are involved in "shooting" (a decision I challenged but was slapped down hard). I've been challenged by our IT department for going on amazon because some of the sponsored links and adverts at the side of the page fell in to categories that contravened our policy (I hadn't accessed them, but their presence was still recognised). A lot of it depends on what your written policy, because that is what the company must rely on in any proceedings. If it's not clearly prohibited then it can be defended from a legal point of view, if not a moral one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyElectro Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Gordon bennet I've worked at places that dismiss for downloading any file type that hasnt been pre approved by the IT dept! this could be anything from a picture or even a driver needed to work a program, but downloading the blue stuff and keeping their job that's unheard of in my book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muggins. Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 It`s pretty much the same with every company, get caught downloading any type of porn and you`re a goner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bicykillgaz Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Your better going for the weird stuff dwarfs, paraplegics or animals anything that they won't want getting in the papers if you make a big fuss and take them down the legal route, I've got some paraplegic dwarf horse porn links I can send you! :yp: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Potter Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Your better going for the weird stuff dwarfs, paraplegics or animals anything that they won't want getting in the papers if you make a big fuss and take them down the legal route, I've got some paraplegic dwarf horse porn links I can send you! :yp: Would that be gay or straight? Know one or two on here who would be very interested if it was gay, transgender or bi-sexual Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bicykillgaz Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Would that be gay or straight? Know one or two on here who would be very interested if it was gay, transgender or bi-sexual Straight I'm not a pervert! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeds chimp Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 sacked without question... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVB Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Would that be gay or straight? Know one or two on here who would be very interested if it was gay, transgender or bi-sexual I have just joined my companies LGBT community (it's called the Rainbow Network). Diversity is good for the career nowadays. Also sit on the Steering Committee of our Womens Network as the token male. Part of my master plan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
storme37 Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 at my old firm we downloaded stuff all-day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Potter Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Straight I'm not a pervert! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artschool Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 I used to be the cad manager at one of the old places I worked at. got a virus notification and started to work out where it had originated from. turned out one of the guys was coming in in the evening to have a tommy tank as he had no Internet at home. he was mortified that I had found out, but I didn't have the heart to shop him to the boss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyElectro Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 I used to be the cad manager at one of the old places I worked at. got a virus notification and started to work out where it had originated from. turned out one of the guys was coming in in the evening to have a tommy tank as he had no Internet at home. he was mortified that I had found out, but I didn't have the heart to shop him to the boss. I can imagine how that conversation would go down haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobt Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 I can see why they dont want you looking at porn when you should be earning them money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cookoff013 Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 we`ve had an instant dismissal and 2 warnings. but it is kind of a joke really. the IT dept actually monitor quite abit. one was illegal stuff the other was mainly home made stuff. the bits of info the was fed back to colleagues, is there was quite alot. 10gb a day. just to keep us informed and not to leave terminals logged in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Bb Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 I can see why they dont want you looking at porn when you should be earning them money. I have to agree, if I ran a company there would be no internet access at desks. If internet was needed for any reason, research, etc., there would be one public terminal available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckaroo23 Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Have acces to most sites a part eBay, Facebook and some other sites, a bloke at work opened a email from his mate with a click a link on it, well it was an e-bomb hundreds of pages porn, both was sursoended and one was sacked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 I don't use the net for anything other than work related searches. I could not deal with the shame of getting caught looking at smut. Lets face it, its not often you search something like that out unless you are going to seal the deal shall we say. If they thought I was having a Sherman on their time it would go round the firm quicker than a safety alert. I don't forward on email of an adult nature after what happened on a job a few years ago. I was working as a works inspector for the principle contractor and was keen to forge a good relationship with my opposite numbers on the clients side. I would engage them in non-work related chat at every opportunity to try and find out what made them tick. It soon became clear that one of the Aussies was an out and out perv so I thought I'd send him the items of 'adult interest' that I had accumulated in my inbox whilst on that job. There was a fair bit of it and I was confident that it would be well recieved. Walking in to the office the next day he shouted over 'hey Rob, wheres that stuff you said you'd send'. I told him that I'd sent it and as soon as I sat down at my desk checked to make sure it had all been sent. It had been sent succesfully so I rang him but he still hadn't recieved it. When the penny dropped I thought I was going to have a Connery. Transpired that there was somebody else in TFL with a very similar surname in the upper echelons that now had an inbox that was bursting with filth. I never heard back or got disciplined and I was on the job for another two years so the mystery recipient might even have put in a good word for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 In my last job before going self employed one of my tasks was to have a snoop at people's work email if it was strongly suspected they were doing something fishy. If never ceased to amaze me that supposedly intelligent switched on people didn't seem to realise we could read every word they were typing on company email. One memorable 'off the record' friendly chat I had to have with someone (who was married) involved me discovering she has been letting a competitor into the office after hours, allowing him access to not only her PC but also her hoo-hoo, arranging to buy cocaine off him using company email etc etc. That was an awkward one as I quite liked her. Luckily she saw reason and did the decent thing. Be careful!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njc110381 Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Porn on the internet at work? I need an iphone! All I get to look at is a lawnmower and my ugly male colleague. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njc110381 Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 One memorable 'off the record' friendly chat I had to have with someone (who was married) involved me discovering she has been letting a competitor into the office after hours, allowing him access to not only her PC but also her hoo-hoo, arranging to buy cocaine off him using company email etc etc. That was an awkward one as I quite liked her. Luckily she saw reason and did the decent thing. Don't tell me, she gave you good reason not to drop her in it with the boss? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Don't tell me, she gave you good reason not to drop her in it with the boss? Oh yeah, executive perk mate!! No sadly the owners had it in for her so the decent thing in her case was resigning. She was half decent though, I probably would have, if I'd been a Charlie sniffing philanderer.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cookoff013 Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 the thing that makes it really funny, is he was foreign and the company had sponsored him to work in the UK. you just wouldnt risk it. surely there are shops for this sort of thing. to add to the other piece of hysterics , i applied for the job he did, but they told me they`d rather hire someone else not me ! lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Bb Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 In my last job before going self employed one of my tasks was to have a snoop at people's work email if it was strongly suspected they were doing something fishy. If never ceased to amaze me that supposedly intelligent switched on people didn't seem to realise we could read every word they were typing on company email. I had a senior company engineer working on a ship I was on, he spent a great deal of time on the ship's computer. He wasn't bright enough to delete the sites he'd been to from memory. No, not porn, engineering employment agencies! He didn't stay long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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