🚀 go-pugleaf

> >I agree that web porn is pretty lame, but do you think it right that an
otherwise
> >good employee should lose their job over it? Discipline maybe, demotion
> >perhaps, but losing a job is pretty serious, especially if it is used by
the
> >boss to avoid paying redundancy and the like.
>
> wasting the company's resources is more than serious.... they wasted
> their time, bandwidth (maybe the company is charged by the MB), there
> are sexual harassment considerations as well.... if this was a male
> employee then the females could take the company to the cleaners if
> they found accidentally porn on the machine....
>
> ... then there's the possibility the company address may be located by
> the site and result in a flood of x-rated spam e-mails arriving....
> and maybe their names could be found by potential customers or
> competitors...
>
> .... or the site could be "unsafe" and result in the intranet becoming
> infected with some virus or trojans that could make the company
> vulnerable.....
>
> .... overall the results could be pretty catastrophic for a company!!

I used to work for a car company which put the cleaners through its computer
network.  Last I heard (I left due to contract expiry) was that about 8 people
had been sacked not only because it was porn, but because of the wasted
resources, sexual harassment potential etc.  Even joke emails were frowned
upon because of how much bandwidth and time they chewed up.

Al