Porn Surfing at Work
“One in four workers cited in a new survey says he or a co-worker uses company computers to view sexual material. Frank Harty, for one, is not surprised. The corporate lawyer says his docket is full of cases in which employees were caught using their company’s computer to access sexually explicit Web sites or send dirty e-mail or instant messages… Employees ‘don’t realize that, when they send these messages back and forth, it’s like posting their love letters on the firm bulletin board.’ Most companies have policies against surfing the Web for porn, he said. It’s an easy way to lose your job. Most companies employ technicians who can determine what Web sites workers have visited and what e-mail messages have been written.” — Seattle Times (US)
(Thanks to alanr for the link.)
When PervScan was a wee little wage slave, he had a dumb job one time where a new manager was hired. The new manager immediately embarked on a systematic firing of (1) all slackers; (2) all women. Once a crew of highly productive males was running the place, the new manager began to keep a bong full of marijuana in the men’s room. Employees were free to use this, and in no time it became more popular than the water cooler. Sometimes the new manager even brought cocaine for his crew.
Productivity shot up. Profits rose. Employees had a strange tendency to hang around the workplace after their shifts. Everybody was happy — until one of the former employees figured out what was going on and threatened a discrimination lawsuit. The new manager was promptly fired and she, the plaintiff, was hired to replace him. Not long after, the place went bankrupt.
Plainly this was the kind of lesson you don’t get in business school. It always made PervScan wonder: why don’t employers strive harder to make the workplace a more enjoyable place to be? So long as employees meet productivity standards, who cares if they’re engaging in dirty talk on their lunch hour? Who cares if they browse porn sites while suffering through conference calls? If Arbeit macht frei was the motto of the century’s most infamous workplaces, maybe the motto of its best could be Freiheit macht arbeitsam — Freedom is productivity.
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