Dude. Close your porn folder...

[technical.angel]

BEFORE you bring it to Helpdesk.

PLEASE.

Or, if you can't, please at least TRY to act embarrassed when called on it.

Shudder.

Not something I want to see (again) at work.

[PepperElf]

only thing worse is wondering how clean the keyboard is now

[technical.angel]

I really didn't need to be reminded of that.....

[draggar]

When I worked on cel phones people would have pictures like that as their screensaver (on their phones).

That's the LAST thing I'd want to see!!

[Der Cute]

Eww. Just ....ick.

It goes against my IT training to say " Delete the folder" but part of me...the mischievous little thing in the back of my head...says NUKE IT.

I'm bad.

cutenoob

[Geek King]

It goes against my IT training to say " Delete the folder" but part of me...the mischievous little thing in the back of my head...says NUKE IT.

Sorry, bad sector on the drive. Nothing we can do to recover it here. Hope you backed it up somewhere. Best of luck.

[Gerrinson]

It goes against my IT training to say " Delete the folder" but part of me...the mischievous little thing in the back of my head...says NUKE IT.

Depends on company policy, actually. One company I used to work for had a "porn=immediate termination" policy. Nearly all of the end users had porn on their laptops/desktops that they brought in for service. The IT guys - being incredibly nice and tolerant of such things - would simply delete all of it and return the PC giftwrapped with copies of the 'no porn' policy.

Only one repeat offender was actually reported. He had some...barnyard escapades...and told the tech that if they got deleted then the tech "would have a fatal accident in the near future."

So, the files were saved and his HDD forwarded to corporate along with a formal complaint, since he said it on camera and within earshot of three other employees. He was escorted off site by the police same day.

[crashhelmet]

When I worked at the centralized service center for <retail chain on the west coast>, we used to joke that the first step in diagnosing a customers problem was to search for *.jpg. Anything found of the adult nature was deleted. Anything found of the illegal nature was reported.

We always searched, I won't deny that. We simply started deleting after a customer tried to accuse us of putting it on their system. So from then on, no system ever left with any on it.

CH

[Der Cute]

Depends on company policy, actually. One company I used to work for had a "porn=immediate termination" policy. Nearly all of the end users had porn on their laptops/desktops that they brought in for service. The IT guys - being incredibly nice and tolerant of such things - would simply delete all of it and return the PC giftwrapped with copies of the 'no porn' policy.

Only one repeat offender was actually reported. He had some...barnyard escapades...and told the tech that if they got deleted then the tech "would have a fatal accident in the near future."

So, the files were saved and his HDD forwarded to corporate along with a formal complaint, since he said it on camera and within earshot of three other employees. He was escorted off site by the police same day.

Good job. I really like the Giftwrapping policy.

It's just....when it's a personal, home owned PC? The owner gets to keep his/her shit..no matter what kind of shit it is. If it's Illegal Shit...then it gets reported, pronto.

But deleting stuff just because it's porn? Only on a work pc. And then, you'd probably have to tell the boss a step or 2 up that there WAS porn.

I just don't feel right deleting someone's pwecious collection of boobs. (or whatever) from a home pc.

Cutenoob

[draggar]

Getting slightly back on topic - while pron is inappropreate for work PCs the pictures and movies won't do much to slow down your PC (unless you have gigabytes of it). It's all the malware / scareware that those sites have on them that's the issue.

Luckily I haven't found any of that on the PCs I work on.

[Captain Trips]

Getting slightly back on topic - while pron is inappropreate for work PCs the pictures and movies won't do much to slow down your PC (unless you have gigabytes of it). It's all the malware / scareware that those sites have on them that's the issue.

Luckily I haven't found any of that on the PCs I work on.

1. We pay people to do the work we hired them for, not to surf porn. I have no problem with porn per se, but they need to do that on their own time (on their own machines, which leads to ...)

2. Yes, the TECHNICAL issue is all the junk that rides in from those sites - they can bring down an entire network.

These two reasons would be enough individually for porn surfing to be a violation of company policy. Combined they make it a BIG issue.

[Ironclad Alibi]

The agency I worked for had a no porn policy. When they tried to fire one person for having porn on his computer, his lawyer made certain legal requests, and found out that most managers, including the high level managers, had porn on their computers. The case was quickly dropped.

[Chromatix]

Our office seems to be a little more relaxed about it. But there is an understanding that it is kept out of sight of customers, and doesn't get in the way of actual work.

Obviously, that kind of common sense wouldn't work in *all* offices...

[Darkforge]

I know a friend of mine who works as a photographer and from time to time he does the occasional artistic (not porn, but artistic semi nudes) shoot.

Anyway long story short he had a comp issue and gave his comp in to a company to repair.

When it came back he found that his "artistic" folder of original work had been deleted and in the folder was now a picture of jesus saying "Jesus doesn't like sinners"

Yeah, most was backed up and some he had hard copies of but about 3 photo shoots worth were lost completely...

[tropicsgoddess]

What I thought was funny was how whenever I had customers with gobs of viruses on their computers, (and more than half the time) it was all due to pr0n being on their computer. What was funny was how the customer would swear up and down how they would never ever look at such filth, etc. but there was clear evidence that they had pr0n the computer. Idiots.