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Monday, November 9, 2009

My co-worker looks at porn

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?

 working in an office

cubicle coach

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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  • seva1001's Avatar
    Posted by seva1001 Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:01pm PDT

    I have to disagree with CC on this one.

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  • PJ's Avatar
    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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  • Archer's Avatar
    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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  • Nikki Royston's Avatar
    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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  • Alex R's Avatar
    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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  • Nikki Royston's Avatar
    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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  • Stephanie Quilao's Avatar
    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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