Hey, they're part of the project now!
- TAGS:fired, porn, project repository
- IT TOPICS:Development, Management
Pilot fish works for a defense contractor and is added to a project that's been running for years. Her first step: poking around the project repository to look for videos and slide presentations to learn all she can.
"My research resulted in thumbnails of porn video displaying on my monitor," fish says. "I quickly reported them to my supervisor, as I didn't want any trouble for inadvertently viewing them.
"The naughty files were buried deep in the directory structure in a 'My Documents' subfolder, so I guessed it was backed up from a PC when an employee quit. I was happy to know I wasn't going to be responsible for getting someone fired.
"Actually, though, the guy hadn't quit -- he had been fired. And it was for having porn on his PC.
"And after security had escorted him off the premises, IT had promptly backed up his files to the server so they could reformat his PC for reuse."
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