<p>This is just hysterical. I could not stop laughing for a few minutes when I read the last pargraph! Here it is:</p>
<p>[Your</a> biggest work embarrassments - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/01/14/cb.biggest.work.embarrassments/index.html]Your”>Your biggest work embarrassments - CNN.com)
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<p>Has something like that happened to you?</p>
<p>No. This would be a termination infraction at my former workplace. Really.</p>
<p>It would be at a lot of places I have worked too. I am now self employed and we have looked into systems that would track internet usage but I feel torn about it. I don’t want to be an agressive employer but I sure don’t want people surfing the net on company time.
There is also an issue of what you allow in the workplace and sexual harassment. I once worked at a place where an 11pm to 7am employee was fond of using my computer. Found that they were going to internet kiddie porn sites and I was NOT happy. Imagine my conversation with my boss when the images starting showing up at random on my computer.<br>
I basically let him know that this was not acceptable to me at all and that the employee in question needed to be terminated. Then I started locking down my computer with the permission of the employer.</p>
<p>There was a news story a few years back where a substitute teacher was convicted of exposing students to porn at school. She admitted to surfing the net at school, but said that she was looking for hairstyles and a porn site came up and it would not let her click out of it. She said that since she was a sub she was afraid to just pull the plug because she didn’t know what it would do to the computer system.</p>
<p>It blew me away to hear her story (and that she was going to jail because of it!!!) because the same thing had happend to me at work. Fortunately, I am in an office by myself. I was looking at hairstyle sites and clicked on something allegedly about hairstyles and porn came up and a new window opened every half second or so. I kept trying to X out and by then maybe a hundred windows of porn had opened. I tried the off button and it would not shut down. I finally had to crawl under my desk and pull the power plug.</p>
<p>Missypie, that happened to me at home, before I knew about virus protection and firewalls and pop-up blockers and so forth. It was horrible. Window after window kept opening, and I couldn’t click out of them fast enough. It was like I was being attacked!!</p>
<p>I guess we will all have to resort to magazines for those hairstyle ideas.</p>