Found P0rn on someones pc

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

Unbelievable! Absolutely unbelievable. I found a p0rn movie on the guys computer. A short one but still a p0rno on a guys work computer and according to company policy I am not allowed to police this or bring it up to the customers attention. WTF? Are you serious? Are you kidding me? I am not going to launch it on my profile because then I'd get busted but it is the only way to prove what was had. Now granted I can log into the guys pc as him and launch it and then it would be found by our security software. But damn. That is true evil style. And would send this guy right back to his country and have him loose his job I am sure. And how would he explain his stupidity to his wife?

Now this is the same asshat who lied to me about dumping coffee on his laptop. Why the hell can't I report him? Why can't I do anything to this guy. Oh the reasoning? Becuase if the customer knew we were allowed to police what they have on their machines they wouldn't come to us and we would be out of a job. Excuse me?????? Back that truck right up. That wont happen. When did IT get its hands tied?

Does anyone else have this at their place of work? I have worked for some pretty lienient companies and NEVER EVER had this happen to me. We find p0rn, you are outta there dude. I can and was able to police people for that shit.

Comments

[jecook]

Talk to your boss. he might make an exception to the rule. Failing that, take to whatever amounts for an HR department.

I've done _several_ investigations at company ----, although I never quite hit such a jackpot as what you've found. I've managed to get at least one staff permantly out the door(with the assistance of the site supervisor), and I think a second one written up.

I would for starters take a full image of the machine, so you have proof of what happened, complete with timestamps and other information. Then I'd pull out his browsing history (google for Web Historian, great free tool), and start from there.

[samwize.livejournal.com]

Honestly, if you don't want the guy fired, and don't feel like going through all the bother of going BOFH on his ass, just delete the file. Or hell, replace it with something inane and stupid named the same (I'm thinking an episode of My Little Pony would suffice. :P).

[jecook]

Or a word document written in 128 point saying "DON'T DO THAT AGAIN."

Our proceedure

[gythiawulfie.livejournal.com]

We find it, copy it to a particular hard drive, report it to the proper channels, and then it goes from there. They can loose access to certain things but, not all their privelages... or there's a 90 day probation. Depends on who it is.

[samwize.livejournal.com]

Heh. Me likey.

[dazzedelf.livejournal.com]

Are you allowed to report it to HR and say the movie made you very uncomfortable and you feel it causes a hostile work environment?

[(Anonymous)]

What's wrong with porn at the work place? :D

[attackgypsy.livejournal.com]

This was the guy who lied to you? And you're not allowed to report what you found?

Document what you found, then launch the puppy. Screw him. He's the idiot for having pron on his work comp.

I swear, that has got to be the dumbest thing on the planet. Some people thing they can get away with anything.

My old company's (I work for myself now) policy was if we found anything like that, we did 2 things. Document it, then show our supervisor, who immediately escorted us to HR, where the documentation was copied by HR, and the person was usually terminated within 4 hours.

[dukesnorre.livejournal.com]

Heh. Reminds me of a guy who wanted a cow orker to show him how to get porn off the web.

[akage.livejournal.com]

That's bullshit. I say hose the guy. Let him grab some pr0n from Ouagadougou or wherever he's from.


We had something vaguely similar here, where we had a guy who would not only download some fairly vile stuff (we're talking borderline illegal), but then had the audacity to email it around to half a dozen other techs in the office who DIDN'T want it. Subtle hints didn't seem to work. Even threats didn't seem to work. And because this was back in the last throes of the dot-com boom, the company was apparently desperate enough for workers that they didn't show him the door, but just gave him a stern warning when it was finally brought to their attention.

Needless to say, when the bubble burst, his ass was the FIRST tossed out the door. But the fact that they were so limp-wristed about it at the time really made us wonder what kind of company we were working for.

[jkesus.livejournal.com]

Yah I have the same problem where i work (a college)... In our open lab a guy keeps coming in and looking at sorts of pr0n but the only way we can bust him is if an another student complains. All we can do is keep putting up more and more signs that he keeps ignoring. :-/

[jjjiii]

Don't report it, just put a shortcut to the pr0n in the user's startup folder.

Or email a copy of it to everyone in his address book.

Information wants to be free, dammit.

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

LOL, We should work together. They are telling me that since I am copying it over it wont show but it may eventually.

You are evil. I likes you!

Yeah, I know, don't feed the trolls.

[jecook]

For the most part, it's against whatever corporate policy may/may not be in place. the only place I could forsee it being allowed is in an adult studio, and those jobs are hard to get.

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

Well I am tempted to pull the HR card. But I actually want to continue working here.

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I miss those burning days!

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

Nice one jackass.

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

I can play that card if I am willing to make waves. Which I am not yet becuase I actually need this job and I can come in late to work with no one freaking out.

Re: Our proceedure

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

Now see that is still action. I am ok with that.

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

Ha! Nice. I haven't heard of that show in a long time!

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

I am just holding onto the hard drive. It is bad anyway, he ain't getting it back. (couldn't image it that is how I found it. Just straight copying info over and it stalled on this lovely file.)

[kallell.livejournal.com]

Put a shortcut to it in the startup folder

[dysan27.livejournal.com]

Call a friend in to complain while he's in.

[jkesus.livejournal.com]

yah seems like the best course of action at this point.. i have the perfect guy too *grins*

[ramennoodlegirl.livejournal.com]

i work at a college and we clean staff and faculty members' computers all the time. it's not uncommon for us to find porn on their work computers. i don't think we've ever reported anyone except the one time we found child porn on this one guy's compy. disgusting! this incident was a little before my time, but i hear about it often.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

And set his software volume to max beforehand. And lock out the keyboard and mouse. And set the video player to auto-repeat. And arrange for the most-likely-to-be-offended person in the company to be standing behind him when he does log on. Several people, if you can manage it.

Re: Yeah, I know, don't feed the trolls.

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

Not really, there was a contstant advertisement in Oakland for a tech for an adult website. Good pay and the only reason I didn't take it was becuase the commute sucked for me.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

I worked for a government department of about two thousand people. We had one workstation in our section that we could never actually use because it spent 12 hours a day at 100% capacity deleting pr0n off users' home directories. By the time it had finished one batch of directories, the previous ones had filled up again. Slightly depressing, that was.

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

I work for a government contractor and one of our workers found child pr0n on a guy's computer. Practically an entire hard drive full of it. He did report that and the guy did get arrested. However, regular pr0n we usually delete but don't report. *sigh*

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

1) Report it to your boss. not via mail but in an 1:1
2) Your icon. its not "two for you" this would be 132 (if you can count in binary on your fingers :)

Re: Yeah, I know, don't feed the trolls.

[jecook]

That's true. I interviewed at a comapny locally here that was an ISP for _many_ adult sites. I think about half way through the interview we both realized that I was not technically qualified to work there. Shame really...

[jecook]

Bonus points for having at C level executive on hand as well... (I.e., CEO, CFO, CIO...)

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

BWAAHAHAHA that would be so funny!

[dangermouse74.livejournal.com]

isn't that hard when you found the file and viewed it? it's not liek it was a desktop wallpaper or he showed you or anything (was it?)

i mean what's the complaint here, is it just against company policy to have any nudity or pornography on a company computer?

[dangermouse74.livejournal.com]

well yeah that is highly illegal nevermind the moral implcations of what is done to children. can't someone please think of the children!! :-P not cool. but people are so stupid.