Forget Layoffs, Fire Them For Porn
from the the-catchall? dept
One writer at ZDNet UK is wondering if the porn excuse is being used as an alternative to laying people off. There are a growing number of stories about people losing their jobs for viewing porn on work computers, but the writer wonders how bad the offenses really are. He also notes that no one seems to complain when a company gets rid of people for porn, but layoffs seem like bad news all around. This seems like a stretch (and also seems to imply that almost anyone you'd want to layoff has been surfing porn on their work computer), but is still somewhat amusing. Maybe we'll have a different stat next to monthly layoffs: "fired for porn."
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I'm sorry, but...
More importantly, if the CIO doesn't think it's worth the few bucks to install simple web filtering software to block all but the most diligent porn surfer, then maybe (s)he should be fired as well.
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Filtering software is still primitive, yet expensi
Filtering software is licensed per seat -- "enterprise" filtering applications from major vendors runs $10-$15 per seat per year, requires significant hardware investment, and still suffers from false positives, requiring IT staff to review and respond to requests to unblock sites.
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