I’m waiting for wumpus to explain on his blog the best way to hide your porn. Talk about your human factors.
Heh, interesting topic on the 17th.
Busted!
See, they’re ladies AND boys.
Heh, one of the NCOs in my old INT unit got busted for putting porn on one of the unit computers. Takes a special kind of stupid for that.
Several years ago I had a coworker that sat in a cubical in a high traffic area. He would have porn movies playing on two of his monitors while coding on the third. And not the Cinemax after dark kind, but the “50 Guy Creampie” variety. The company was pretty laid back, but not that laid back. He was fired shortly after it became public knowledge he was doing that.
He reason for doing it was, and I quote, “it gets me in the mood to work”. His last name was Oster, so anytime after that when someone joked about looking at porn, they just said “I was Ostering the web.”
Lots of weird shit happened at that place. Our old IT guys also once told me about the guy who ran a public white supremacist website off of one of our dev machines back before we ever got a firewall. It was filled with Charles Whitman worship, and derogatory statements about some of our mixed race co-workers.
He got fired too.
Then there was the guy who was a weapons/self-defense enthusiast who insisted on carrying knives wherever he went: one in his belt buckle, and the other strapped to his ankle. They thought he was going to go postal when they laid him off, so his manager had security guards alongside when he broke the news.
/me inserts gratuitous “rocket science” joke here.
Oh, and RepoMan is my new hero.
Ooh porn at work anecdotes. I work for a large, multi-national, multi-pronged company. Although no-one really knows anyone at the various sister offices (different business, no reason to know any of them) we are all connected on the corporate network. This means that if I type a random name into the to: field in an email, it will pop up a company directory and offer me various people with that name, most of whom I don’t know. Can you see where this is going yet?
A few years ago, my office was probably the smallest and most informal one in the company, and this was before porn at work/in email had become a big issue. One of my co-workers mentioned to our manager that he had seen some really awesome porn that day and described it. Said manager expressed interest, and was promised a forward of the video file. Let’s imagine that our managers name was “John Baxter”. My coworker goes back to his desk and attaches the file to an email simply entitled “Enjoy!” and fires it off. About an hour later, he turns to me, looking a bit pale, and asks me if our boss spells his name John or Jon. Whoever Jon Baxter was, he never replied to the email.
But I hope he enjoyed the video!
Me too. The point was that he wasn’t hiding very well.
The question I have is, why hide? There’s a reason those newsgroups grew so quickly: He is far from the only person into this sort of thing, and almost everyone, even those who don’t fetishize it, enjoy it as a change of pace. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. Nothin’ in the Bible that says you can’t get tied up, tickled and fucked with a strap-on while being called “bitch” by your wife – or vice versa – if that’s something the two of you dig.
OK well yeah maybe looking at porn falls under “looking at a woman lustfully means you’ve committed adultery in your heart,” but shit, I do that every day, even with ugly girls. And so does every man with a pulse. I think they even did a study where they tracked the heads of men as an attractive, sexy-dressed woman walked by and even men who’d identified as gay all their lives turned their heads. Jesus did actually expect us to poke our eyeballs out. It really depends on how ya use it, just as it depends on how you look at the girls.
Holy crap. You wrote my bible when I was like 16.
I’m torn between “TMFI” and “Way to make him feel old there.”
Repo, why don’t you run some spoiler tactics? Invent a website on geocities or something for a guy named the same as you, get it up there in the page ranks through liberal use of your name, and voila, blame your past on your evil alter-ego!
Super clever!
Dude, shut up. RepoMan has the right attitude about this. I’m reading this historical FAQ right now and it’s absolutely nothing to be ashamed of.
Seriously, if anything, he should be complimented for creativity in historical porn acquisition. How many of YOU fuckers created your own perv newsgroups, huh?
Oh, I’m not condemning, I meant if it’s something he’s worried about - which since he’s brought it up a few times, maybe he is. At least maybe for when his grandkids use google to build a family tree for their grade school project =)
By then there will be a statue of him on horseback topping the Statue of Liberty.
You rock.
If I were a kid in the future looking up family history and found out that my great uncle or whatever created two of the most popular fetish newsgroups, my first thought would be “Awesome”.
Dude, like I said, I was 19 frickin’ years old and this all dates back to 1989. The Internet was a really different goddamn place back then.
Aagh, I got bitten by that one too. See, at the time I didn’t really have usenet access at home at all… shit, I’d forgotten this until now, I’m long-ago guilty of the same thing I made fun of the NASA dude for, kind of!.. anyway, I was writing a post to alt.sex.bondage, and I was doing it on a Sun workstation. The Sun newsposting software was kind of in with the email software. And if you left out a blank line at the start of your post, it would turn the ENTIRE FIRST PARAGRAPH into a To: list.
So, yeah, an extremely un-politically-correct post got mis-mailed to at least one random person inside the company, who proceeded to contact my boss and demand that I get fired. Fortunately I’d already shown that I was slightly too smart (and way too cheap – fresh out of college) to be easily fireable. So my boss called me in, and basically told me, “You get ONE of those PER YEAR.”
I swore up and down I’d never do it again, and I never did. Moved everything over to home after that.