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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
My co-worker looks at porn
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Dear CC: I was walking past a colleague's desk,
and it looked like he had porn on his computer, something like
hoturuguayans.com. Am I obligated to report him?
Is CC obligated to report you because
you're writing this on company time? CC hates a snitch. As long as
his screen is not directly in your sight line creating a
"hostile work environment" as long as he's meeting his
professional obligations, as long as there's no moaning or drool,
back off and go buy yourself a pair of boots online.
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Posted by PJ Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:07pm PDT
Ah, yes, you do. God, if it's in a cubicle it isn't private and what are you waiting for? This is work, right? What would you report if not that? The guy should get the ax for stupidity.
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Posted by Archer Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:37pm PDT
I have to disagree with CC on this one also. You're not being paid to get your jollies off behind a computer screen. How is this any different than stealing from the cash register? Should you ignore that if you witness it also? Nope. I don't agree with this one at all. Sorry CC.
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Posted by Nikki Royston Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:14pm PDT
I agree with cc - sneaking a peak at some porn through the day is not in the same league as stealing from the cash register - do you want someone snitching on you for being at Shine while you're at work? (or facebook, or myspace, etc etc )
nobody likes the office cop - they usually come off as what we used to call a "brown noser"
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Posted by Alex R Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:04pm PDT
As the IT guy who has to clean up the mangled system after this guy's had his go on the porn sites, I strongly disagree with CC. I wish everyone would report incidents like this! I'm going to do my best to block that content, and protect the system, but there are new malware releases each and every day. If you DON'T report this guy, and then suffer a few hours of downtime because the jerk infected your entire network, you are equally at fault in my eyes.
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Posted by Nikki Royston Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:18pm PDT
ahhh - a couple of hours of downtime - I might just go searching around the porn sites myself lol! (sorry Alex, couldn't resist)
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Posted by Stephanie Quilao Tue Apr 1, 2008 12:58am PDT
I've run into this situation many times (unfortunately). What I did first was tell my co-worker that I did not feel it appropriate for he/she to look at porn in the work space, "Come on be cool." If I saw them doing it again, I would report it because looking at porn at work is just not cool. Whatever you do at home is your biz but at work there needs to be a level of respectfulness.
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