and find porn in the browser cache. assume its not illegal porn. you are NOT in charge of IT nor in HR. what is your next move?
I used to work as IT manager and yeah this happens a lot. The company had a policy on appropriate use of computing assests email virus protection and whatnot... but I made it very clear to the management team that I was not responsible for monitoring it. Managers could request data whenever they wanted on their employees... and I provided that data. Occassionally I'd be watching traffic on the internet proxy server and see people were accessing stuff they shouldn't... but most of the time it was the managers. =)
a long time ago, i found some porn on the computer of the president of a company. a bunch of strange, kind of disturbing but not illegal porn. didn't really say anything about it though other than warn him to "be careful" to surf on websites that can take over your computer.
I say just let it be. One time I was using my roommates computer to print something and in the "Recent Documents" list I found a bunch of files called "Twink" and other things like that. I clicked to open them, but they were all missing (deleted). Most people had suspicion that the roommate was gay, and this certainly did not help his cause, but I never mentioned it to other people. He now has a girlfriend, but that still doesn't mean he isn't gay (he's certainly a metrosexual). So yeah, I'd say let it go. As for illegal porn, my guess would be that it's either clearly obvious or hard to tell, and I don't know why anyone who's going to a place like that wouldn't be careful enough to clean it up so others wouldn't notice. Those kind of sites are generally hard to simply "stumble upon", but they definitely exist.
I ran into a somewhat similar situation, except I was not fixing someone's computer. At a place where I used to work there were a couple of people who had permission to use the computers after working hours to play games. One morning I came into work and printed something on the communal printer. When I went to get my document, I found downloaded printed porn of the most extreme woman-hating variety. Not just pictures of naked ladies, rape, torture and murder, including a link to a site where one can buy what were billed as "woman torture movies". So far as I know this was not illegal material; so far as I know, the women in the films/pics were not ACTUALLY being raped, tortured and murdered and were over 18. But it sure creeped me out that at least one of my coworkers got off on this shit. I took them right to the HR manager. I can't say she handled it great. She said that anyone who used the workplace computers for this would be fired (no argument) but justified her statement on the grounds that "there are ladies here". While it's true that as a woman my reaction might be more visceral than a man's, there are also plenty of men, not necessarily on this board, who find the idea of porn generally and rape/torture/murder porn totally objectionable.
I doubt it, there were much prettier guys he saw in the showers at the fraternity. I think he has a girlfriend right now, but there are some pretty telling signs from his fashion-sense to his girl-handwriting. I'm not kidding, a teacher in college failed him because she thought that his handwriting must have come from a girl and assumed he was cheating on tests. He probably is gay. I know a gay guy who used to have a crush on me. I just take it as a flattering compliment.
The closest thing I had to that was one time I printed or wrote something that could have been offensive, but instead of sending it to the printer in the local printer lab, I forgot that I had logged into my work account and it went to the printer on the other side of the building. Seeing as my manager was there alone (it was around 6 p.m.) I'm pretty glad that I ran over there and snatched it out of the printer before he got a look at it. Gotta be careful at work for sure.
What if a co-worker walks into an office without knocking and catches someone looking at porn sites? Whoose bad, the person surfing or the co-worker not knocking?
Honestly, are people really this stupid to be looking at porn at work? Here's an idea - look at porn at home. -Pop
If I get caught with porn ever I'll just claim that it's a picture of my ....I was going to say "sister" but that's weird. I don't know. Two years ago a girl was running around my fraternity claiming she was a porn star. Everyone was like "Rrriiiight". Six months later, there she was on the internet as "Kacey Jordan". Fresh out of Portland. So I have met a porn star. Add that one to the time I "took a stripper on a date". P.S. She hooked up with a guy in the fraternity. Isn't he lucky.
if you ever find porn on someones computer, you should immediately put it on thier desktop background. and tease them mercilessly.
