Just like he was told to
This user complains that the guy in the next cubicle is surfing porn on the Web, and she sees offensive pictures on his monitor every time she passes by, reports a pilot fish on the scene.
"The issue was immediately investigated," fish says. "Porn was found on his hard drive, and the guy was promptly fired. To prevent possible conflict with the law, the department's IT guy mirrored the drive, then sealed and saved both copies.
"The duties of the fired guy were transferred to the worker who had complained about him. She needed access to his documents but, due to the extreme confidentiality of sales documents, the IT guy was not allowed to view the files in order to separate the wheat from the chaff.
"Upon the VP's order, the IT guy copied back the contents of the whole disk to the woman's hard drive.
"In no time, she and her co-worker filed a complaint -- both women claiming that the IT guy provided them with porn."
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