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Blow the Whistle, Lose Your Job?
ccnull writes "You're a systems admin. On a routine PC repair, you discover a trove of child porn on an employee's PC. You call the cops. The employee pleads guilty and goes to jail. Then what do you do? You get fired. InformationWeek has an interesting expose on whistleblowers who lost their jobs, they say, because they publicly embarassed the company. The company has another version of the story. No matter what the reality is, at the center of this is a good question: If you discover illegal goodies on a machine, what should you do about it?"
Alter the evidence to look like the porn was found on your boss's computer
...so you can horde all of the contraband you discover on workstations and servers. :)
you are a whistle tester.
four-oh-four
The pervert doesn't know you'll both get fired for reporting it.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Exactly. If I found child porn, I would report it. If I found a screener of the Matrix Reloaded I would co.. nevermind. :)
A child of five could understand this! Fetch me a child of five.
Or maybe it's not that funny.
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
says who? oh.....
Refactoring time:
"If you discover that an employee has, say, severed limbs in his desk drawer, it is certainly not your business to go and report him. You are not the law, you have no moral authority, and you should therefore not be able to bring punishment down upon someone who has done you no wrong. After all, you still have all your limbs, so what harm is it to you? Pure and simple."
"I know I would be very displeased if I found one of our system administrators playing "hall monitor" with our proprietary meat storage. If he can't be trusted to keep the privacy of a coworker, then who's to say that he can keep the privacy of the company's trade secrets? He would be outta here in no time."
Thank you. I'll be here all week.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
>>Most people don't realise that even viewing questionalble content with company resources, (But I didn't "download" it, I just looked at it!!!) leaves the company open to legal issues ("Know what a proxy is Bob? How about your browsers cache, hmmmm?) since the file ends up on the comanies system somewhere.
/. at work. Too many times, I run into profanity on these pages. It's a shame... it's tech related, and as such is justified surfing.
./ permanently.
Which is exactly why I can't view a site like
Yet, I've been warned more than once(informally) because the sniffer on our proxy picks up nasty words pretty frequently. The compliance guys are even thinking about banning
The only reason I haven't been warned formally or canned is because it IS a tech relted site. But this excuse is getting old.
So, hey guys, stop cursing around here. Please.
Huh?
>set fire to a pallet of cardboard boxes behind a Wal-Mart. Guess who got grilled the hardest?
The pallet of cardboard boxes?