Fired For Pornography

from the that-was-quick dept

mike (not me) writes in to tell us about Merrill Lynch firing 15 in the UK for sending pornographic emails. Apparently this is just days after the British government said it's okay to monitor email. Interestingly, nearly half of those fired were women.
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    Ryan, 18 Oct 2000 @ 4:28am

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    Wow, I'm impressed women were actually looking at Porn. Usually, the women that I know find it so distasteful that guys surf the net in search of porn (I guess it's one of those things that women hide from men).

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    unknown, sort of, 18 Oct 2000 @ 10:52am

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    hey that's pretty cool. i guess i better clear out my stash of porn, though...

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      mhh5, 18 Oct 2000 @ 1:02pm

      Would you two like to get a chat room?

      After that whole cell phone discussion, I don't think I want to know where you two are going with this thread. But now I guess I'm going to be looking out for your stash, "unknown, sort of"....

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        unknown, sort of, 18 Oct 2000 @ 3:24pm

        Re: Would you two like to get a chat room?

        yeah. some of them are of good friends of mine who are soon to be ex-phd candidates from stanford. they didn't know there was a camera in their rooms. as a tribute to "Women of the Ivy League" i think playgirl is running something next month too...

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