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Blow the Whistle, Lose Your Job?

Posted by michael on from the are-you-moral-or-wise dept.

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?"

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  1. unless of course... by r00tarded · · Score: 5, Funny

    you are a whistle tester.

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    four-oh-four
  2. Re:Why do people enjoy pornography? by seinman · · Score: 5, Funny
    What's the big deal?
    Boobs.
  3. what should you do? by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny
    Blackmail!

    The pervert doesn't know you'll both get fired for reporting it.

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  4. Re:Illegal things... by pizzaman100 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Exactly. If I found child porn, I would report it. If I found a screener of the Matrix Reloaded I would co.. nevermind. :)

  5. The sick irony is by vastabo · · Score: 3, Funny
    look at the bottom of the page at that quote thingy:
    A child of five could understand this! Fetch me a child of five.

    Or maybe it's not that funny.

  6. Re:It doesn't add up... by KaiKaitheKai · · Score: 3, Funny
    Well, I have this huge file called PAGEFILE.SYS on my C:\ drive, I guess I have a virus (it's Windows' swap file, for those who use other OSes), right? Sigh.
    Yes, you do have a virus. Windows.
  7. Re:Illegal things... by wideBlueSkies · · Score: 3, Funny

    >>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.

    Which is exactly why I can't view a site like /. 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.

    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 ./ permanently.

    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.

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    Huh?