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I worked for an automotive supplier here in Detroit and during my time there had a few funny situations with porn. Here's a couple:

1) We had an R&D lab in Nevada at which several high-ranking scientists worked. It was discovered that one of them was responsible for hosting a pay site for porn on one of our servers. He was disciplined and the site was shut down, but he was not fired due to his intellectual value - they didn't want him going to a competitor.

2) There was an engineer in his 50's at the site where I worked who was downloading porn ALL.DAY.LONG. He was offered both friendly and firm warnings on several occasions, but persevered regardless of these. He was formally written up and warned he would lose his job. He kept on doing it. He was fired. A few months later, someone saw him working behind the counter of the photo processing center at a Meijer's, and tried saying hello. He tried to hide his name badge and denied who he was out of shame. I guess he ran into trouble finding another engineering job. Or maybe he could feed his addiction in the photo lab?

3) I managed a remote site that housed our test labs and we did run the Elron Internet Manager at all of our divisions sites. Our manager wanted to make sure that we eliminated false positives so they weren't blocking legit sites, and would have my counterpart at the main site and I sort of reconcile the logs at the end of every month. This meant getting on the phone with each other, running through the logs, and visiting sites that seemed by their names to be potentially legitimate, which we left open to a very generous interpretation. "Pornado.com? I dunno, could be weather related. We'd better go check it out!" HAHA. Good times.

So those are my porn tech support stories. Not as good as many of them.

My ex-husband had a particularly fun one in which a very bitchy user complained that her IE was not working properly but refused to let him on her system until she left for the day. In checking her browsing history, he saw a questionable URL, which he of course went to investigate. Not only was it a porn site, she had uploaded something to it. Not only had she uploaded photos, but they were OF HERSELF. She was not attractive. Not only was she nekkid, she was giving some dude a BJ'er. Not only that, but from the walls and furniture, he realized those photos were taken IN THE OFFICE. The final kicker? It was some gross guy from the office's schwanse in the photos. Needless to say, there were some pink slips issued the next day. I don't think my ex has ever recovered from those images, though.