If you could watch porn at work... would you?

[preslove]

I can't imagine being stupid enough to surf porn on a work computer.

 

[Carson Dyle]

I can't imagine being stupid enough to surf porn on a work computer.

In a small company with no (or incompetent) IT staff and no usage monitoring, it's unlikely to even be noticed. I imagine there are many millions of workers in the US in such an environment who can surf anything on the web without concern.

 

[NetWareHead]

2. One of my employees was a porn surfer and what made it worse in his case was the fact he was an IT employee and knew it was being logged. I should've fired the moron but gave him a warning instead and then he got the bright idea of using dial-up to access porn instead. Yeah, should've fired him....

Damn...that takes supreme dedication and patience

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Damn...that takes supreme dedication and patience

Yeah, this was around 2000-2001. The mistake the moron made was that he had the wallpaper of his laptop (a personal laptop; it was an older company one we gave him) set to some naked chick. One of my friends at the company (thank GOD it was a friend) walked in to talk to him and he left the laptop open.....

 

[Carson Dyle]

Yeah, this was around 2000-2001. The mistake the moron made was that he had the wallpaper of his laptop (a personal laptop; it was an older company one we gave him) set to some naked chick. One of my friends at the company (thank GOD it was a friend) walked in to talk to him and he left the laptop open.....

Back around that time I was managing a network in a small office of about 18 people. We were patched into a neighboring ISP who had a pair of T1s and our rate was determined through 95th percentile usage monitoring. Our biggest fear and most common problem was people listening to online radio feeds. Just a few people listening to 64 kbps radio for a workday was enough to push us into a different billing tier and cost us an extra couple hundred dollars for the month.

 

[mzkhadir]

In a small company with no (or incompetent) IT staff and no usage monitoring, it's unlikely to even be noticed. I imagine there are many millions of workers in the US in such an environment who can surf anything on the web without concern.

You might be wrong, we had a person that was walked out for watching stored pr0n movies on pc when someone noticed he was watching them and it was brought to the attention of a HR person.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Back around that time I was managing a network in a small office of about 18 people. We were patched into a neighboring ISP who had a pair of T1s and our rate was determined through 95th percentile usage monitoring. Our biggest fear and most common problem was people listening to online radio feeds. Just a few people listening to 64 kbps radio for a workday was enough to push us into a different billing tier and cost us an extra couple hundred dollars for the month.

Yeah, I remember those days. Another great story is when users would fill file servers with their MP3 downloads. I was at lunch with a friend one day when one of my employees called and told me the file server was full. It just so happened the friend I was with at lunch had started copying several gigs of MP3 files to his home drive (again, this was around 2000) before we left for lunch. His face when I told my employee to delete all of those files was priceless.

 

[preslove]

Man, those were the days. I went to undergrad 1999-2003 at a liberal arts college and students could just share whatever on their computers on the campus network. You could find all kinds of videos, music, porn, whatever and it was just a copy and paste (if you weren't an asshole and just opened up the file, lol) away!

 

[rsutoratosu]

Ummm... The real question is why you sought out this sort of behavior in the first place.

He wasn't doing work at night and boss wanted to know what he was doing with his spare time.

He was whacking it at his desk.. I"m going to see if I saved the email/pics somewhere...

 

[her209]

It'd be like going to an adult movie theatre: watch but no jerking off. To which, I ask, what's the point?

So it be like going to the strip club and paying someone a lot of money to dance in front of you for 3 minutes.

 

[Mai72]

Where was he whacking off? In his office or the bathroom?

My guess is the office. They would get sued if they had cameras installed in the bathrooms.

We had a coworker that brought in a fleshlight and would use it on the 12-8am shift. I guess some people are just perverted.

 

[Imp]

So it be like going to the strip club and paying someone a lot of money to dance in front of you for 3 minutes.

At least the product at the strip clubs talk back.

 

[Mai72]

When I was in South Korea a coworker I know tried to access porn and got this message: