Dude. Close your porn folder...

[Broomjockey]

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"

Hope he sued their asses for that one.

[Hyena Dandy]

Hope he sued their asses for that one.

Yeah. I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to do that.

[Magister Quis]

We had one guy come in with a CD left in his drive labelled "Porn Backup #2".

Contrary to popular belief, it's not just a guy thing. The most, uh, interesting titles (as read from a bash shell) were on girls' computers.

And people wonder why I use a command line...

[Samaliel]

I guess using a command line can save you massive amounts of brain bleach...
But it won't prevent you from suffering from the radiating idiocy of certain users.

[Flying Grype]

Old post, but... seriously, why do people look at porn on their company computers? I hope that the advent of netbooks will stop this... seriously, spend three hundred bucks and you have a nice little passwordable porn reader that you can keep on your nightstand. (Before anyone asks, yes, my cute little pearl-white ASUS is not as innocent as it looks.)

Oh, and back up everything before you send your personal computer in for repairs... I feel bad for the guy who had his work erased by the god-bothering techs, but why the did he not have it all archived somewhere else?

[Hyena Dandy]

We had one guy come in with a CD left in his drive labelled "Porn Backup #2".

Contrary to popular belief, it's not just a guy thing. The most, uh, interesting titles (as read from a bash shell) were on girls' computers.

And people wonder why I use a command line...

Porn Backup #2?

Subtle.

[lordlundar]

Oh, and back up everything before you send your personal computer in for repairs...

Heh, this actually reminds me of a time when It was suggested by the techs at the store I worked that I should transfer to their department (in retrospect, I probably should have). One of the techs asked me how much I know about computers. My response was "I know enough that if I bring it in for repair work, that parts are going to have to be ordered."

[Ironclad Alibi]

Old post, but... seriously, why do people look at porn on their company computers?

Because they can.

At the agency I where I worked, one employee was up for being fired for having porn on his computer. With the help of the union, and some astute questioning, it was discovered that a lot of the high ranking* directors of the agency had a lot of porn on their computers. The case was dropped like the proverbial hot potato.

*Senior Executive Service positions in the US Government.

[BeeMused]

Teeheeheeheee
A no porn rule would be weird at my company. Background: We wholesale adult toys of all sorts and sizes.
So of course we surf to retail adult stores on the web to see what they sell and what we might just add to our portfolio. Those sites often have very explicit pictures. You have issues with full frontal nudity? Don't work here.
We are very upfront with any new hires about that. Before my time there was one sales guy who started lecturing everyone about how sinful all this is, he didn't make probation.

[protege]

At my office, porn is taken seriously. That is, if we find it, you have to find another job. And yes, it is in the employee handbook....and all new hires have to sign the last page of that book stating that they've read it. If they claim they "don't know" about the policy? Tough shit--they signed it, means they agreed to it.

So far, we've only had to fire one person over porn. But, he was an asshole to begin with, and the porn was the last straw. Seriously, if you feel the need to be surrounded by it 24/7, you have a problem

[Flying Grype]

So of course we surf to retail adult stores on the web to see what they sell and what we might just add to our portfolio.

That... actually sounds like a neat job. Who knew that all those amateurs putting their junk up on Xtube were inadvertently advertising for a toy company? "Gee, he looks like he's having fun. Let's stock those!"

How often do you find yourself reaching for the brain bleach?

[Ironclad Alibi]

So of course we surf to retail adult stores on the web to see what they sell and what we might just add to our portfolio.

A small postscript to my other post. I had to surf porn sites to do my job at that agency. I worked on business method patent applications. Many Internet business methods were pioneered on porn web sites. I had to review those sites to get the info I needed to evaluate the applications. One applicant objected to my use of a porn site, but my director just asked whether it was valid info or not. It was. (This was a patent application for posting pictures on the Internet, in 2002.)

[DGoddessChardonnay]

only thing worse is wondering how clean the keyboard is now

I'm so glad I had just finished snacking before I clicked on this thread . . .that's not a mental image I want to go to bed with tonight . . .

[BeeMused]

That... actually sounds like a neat job. Who knew that all those amateurs putting their junk up on Xtube were inadvertently advertising for a toy company? "Gee, he looks like he's having fun. Let's stock those!"

How often do you find yourself reaching for the brain bleach?

Not as often as you might think. Most adult toy stores want to sell to normal people with a healthy sex life, who might want to go a tiny bit kinky with a dildo or something like that. Those sites rarely use nudity, it's more like Victoria's Secret. On the other hand, the really kinky sellers of toys most often use high class photographers, some of those pics are erotic art.

I want to use mostly because of the descriptions, talk of bad prose *shudder*

[HYHYBT]

Oh, and back up everything before you send your personal computer in for repairs... I feel bad for the guy who had his work erased by the god-bothering techs, but why the did he not have it all archived somewhere else?

It's not always possible to copy files off a computer before sending it in. The last time I sent mine in was for a screen replacement; I made a double backup, then deleted my user account and created an empty one just because I don't like the idea that someone might be looking at my stuff, but almost every time before that, they weren't working well enough to copy from.