80 people fired for inappropriate use of internet at work
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At this time when jobs are hard to come by and recession, people should be extra careful.
I am surprised that someone can sit and watch TV serials at work on computer and that too in a big company where they will surely have something to track.
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http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/694114
About 80 workers at the Bruce Power nuclear plant were dismissed this week for "inappropriate" use of their computers – a warning to employees everywhere that if you use company computers for personal business or entertainment, the boss may be watching.
Spokesman Ross Lamont said the workers, following an internal investigation, were determined to have violated the company's code of conduct as it pertains to email and Internet use.
"It wasn't like this would catch any of the individuals by surprise," said Lamont.
"None of the information that we're dealing with here is business-related. There are no trade secrets, and absolutely no impact on operations, on security, on safety. It was just inappropriate behaviour."
The plant, on the shores of Lake Huron near Kincardine, southwest of Owen Sound, has about 3,800 employees, plus some 2,000 working on contract – among them construction workers, electricians, pipefitters and other trades. All of those dismissed were contract workers.
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Posted on: 11-09-09 08:08:19
While I agree with you RajCanada, there might be more that what we are reading. It might be a laying off jobs in this tough recession times and internet usage might have been an excuse to prevent them from paying them severence.
Every one signs an internet usage policy when they join a company but then in most offices you see everyone using the internet and junior staff who get reprimaned for using the internet.
To give you an example, I have seen many senior people in my office using internet very much watching even porn in it. However, when they see a VM using it they get pissed off and talk about rules and how they need productivity etc.... Again , I have seen a Non VM in our office using Facebook all the time, and our boss even one time complimented her for all the pictures of her friends that were in it etc...
That is why in Canada (all other nations have it too but Canada is one which talks of equality, non racisim, compassion, treating VM's, Refugees with respect etc...), there is much more than what meets the eye.
again we have too see under what circumstances these 80 people were fired. How many were VM's ? How many were junior staff and were their super's also net users etc....
Peace by TK
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Posted on: 11-09-09 08:19:53
Well, it is the employees' stupidity to provide the employer with that excuse. In good times, things may be overlooked, but when companies are itching to cut labor (better yet when not having to pay severence), every policy gets rigidly scrutinized.
I recall in 2003 when one of the mfg plants I was working was scheduled to close its operations, many were fired, as opposed to being laid off with severance, due to policy violations. Among them, one was for harrassment, one for smoking inside the premises, one for theft of tool box (company property), one for helping the guy push the tool box to the car (ultimate stupidity), one for downloading from internet, and so on.
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Originally posted by tamilkuravan
To give you an example, I have seen many senior people in my office using internet very much watching even porn in it.
Peace by TK
Now that sounds like over exhaggeration. Were they watching it in full view? Perhaps on overhead display monitors.
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Originally posted by desiskywalker
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Originally posted by tamilkuravan
To give you an example, I have seen many senior people in my office using internet very much watching even porn in it.
Peace by TK
Now that sounds like over exhaggeration. Were they watching it in full view? Perhaps on overhead display monitors.
Vinash kaale vipreet budhi....can be one way of looking at this incident ! Means when we are going through a rough patch or bad times our faculty to think is impaired or we goof up and make silly mistakes....
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Posted on: 12-09-09 00:17:03
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Originally posted by desiskywalker
Now that sounds like over exhaggeration. Were they watching it in full view? Perhaps on overhead display monitors.
The first time I caught my ex-boss was when I knocked the door to his cabin and entered. He tried to close it but then it got stuck or another window popped up and which he could not close and hence he folded the laptop screen. That night I opened his computer and looked at his internet temp. files and found out (my ex-office has a known password system).
Besides this I have seem my various ex-colleuges watching porn / always on the internet at various time (in my 6 1/2 year exp.).
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Giving internet access is like an Oxy Moron. It is like giving you the key to a wine shop and then asking you not to drink whiskey while the boss is not around / seeing you. In my experience in Canada, I have seen numerous people on the internet during office hours ( in the public and private sectors). In one specific case (in Kitchener), I have seen that the local Employment resource centre has 4 receptionists (one of whom only actually works) and the rest 3 are 95% of the time, browsing. And this is in a private centre funded by public money. After seeing all this only, I have lost my trust in Canada / Canadian system.
Also CD's will be knowing that IT companies have one of the most lax internet usage system of them all (esp. in Canada). many offices have (officially) the local medium of communication , the MSN Messenger.
PEace by TK
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Seems you were quite "active" in your office!
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Originally posted by tamilkuravan
That night I opened his computer and looked at his internet temp. files and found out (my ex-office has a known password system).
