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Supermodel Signs Petition To Save Porn Browsing Man's Job
An anonymous reader writes "Following worldwide attention after being caught looking at pictures of Miranda Kerr at work while a colleague was being interviewed on TV, a petition to save David Kiely's job has started. Stated motives: He seems like a nice bloke, the pics weren't hardcore, he has suffered enough, and, maybe more important, there's just too much political correctness in this world anyway. Showing class and sense of humor, miss Kerr said she will sign the petition."
I'm know I'm just feeding a troll, but getting fired for looking at those sorts of photos at work has nothing to do with neocons.
Why do most companies have policies under which you can get fired for doing that? Because of past sexual harassment type lawsuits. The phrase is along the lines of "created a hostile and/or intimidating working environment."
If you violate the rules in a way that could get your company sued, you're quite likely to lose your job.
Note that I'm not arguing in favor of his getting fired; I also believe that the punishment doesn't fit the crime and a real solid ass-kicking in his manager's office, plus the public embarrassment he has already suffered, is more than sufficient punishment, and should also be more than sufficient to ensure that he - and others - don't do it again.
However, to say that these workplace rules stem from neocons is ridiculous. Pragmatically, they come from the desire to not be sued. Ideologically, they are more left than right.
However, looking at racy pictures isn't what he is most likely to get fired for: publicly embarrassing his employer on TV, and all over the world via the Internet, is what he's really in trouble for.
Looking closely he's opening images attached to an email in what appears to be Outlook. He can hardly be blamed for control over what has been sent to him, especially considering all those implicit in the previous hops of the forwarded email (which will be most of the office!).
If you've worked in a contemporary office environment, you KNOW this kind of email gets passed around just about everyone, even some pretty explicit stuff, and 90% of the time the managers look the other way (some of that the managers would ask not to be left out, especially if she's hot). If he gets fired then he has a hell of a comeback if he wants to use it; this will not be an isolated incident in this workplace, and there will be a precedent of management staff being in on the dirty office emails.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
is that it's 3 pictures in the same email. In the HD video you can see that all the pictures are being clicked left to right and the email isn't changing. If it was just something forwarded that he accidently clicked on then he should have stopped at the first one and either stop checking it during work (like who's he talking to? A boss or co-worker?) and wait to look at the rest during a break or after work, forward to his personal email or even delete it. It not so much the subject matter of the photo's as the fact that it's obviously a personal email he's checking during work hours in what is supposed to be a professional business. Also isn't this how a trojan virus could be installed? By clicking on attachments that are obviously not work related (like the whole iloveyou virus)?
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The petition is over. Dave Kiely has been saved.
True, the employer is embarrassed, and therefore mad. But won't more people be watching that news show, in case another incident occurs, which means more eyeballs on commercials. Therefore more money to the employer.
It may be embarrassing but possibly beneficial to the broadcast in general.
Which is probably why they're making such a big deal about this.