To all you knockers out there - boobies, fun-bags!

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Have you read the Federal Court decision? Please do so it may make your response appear a bit more well informed.

To be fair, there is no link to the court decision, so we are all making our off hand statements based solely on the other posts in this thread.

Rollersk8r said :

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Rollersk8r said :

Yes – read the story. Think it’s extremely sad that someone has lost their job and had their life ruined for looking at a few free and legal pictures. Yes – he was very foolish for using work equipment but in the guy’s defence he was using his own ISP and tried hard to remove all the evidence…

Read the decision. The main reason he lost his job was lying about the images rather than simply accessing them.

Well my understanding is he lost his job for breaching the APS Code of Conduct, specifically that he’d agreed at some point to not use work equipment for that purpose.

Have you read the Federal Court decision? Please do so it may make your response appear a bit more well informed.

DeadlySchnauzer said :

To put it another way, if I use my work car out of work hours in my own private time to drive to the newsagent and purchase a perfectly legal copy of some good wholesome pornography, would I really deserve to be fired?

Whether you deserve to be fired or not is for someone else to argue, however if you read the fine print, your personal trip in the Z car is a big no no, and you would no doubt find yourself facing a breach of the code of conduct for using it for personal reasons regardless of what you went to buy.

Wow! That’s certainly very harsh. Who cares if a sexually repressed public servant wants to use a tiny bit of government bandwith IN HIS OWN time to look at something healthy, normal and comforting like a set of nice boobs?

Bring back male domination in the workplace and these sort of sacking wouldn’t happen.

Thoroughly Smashed said :

If that screenshot of ********* gets out you’re stuffed.

How did you know my password was eight asterisks?

The thing is you can buy a netbook these days for $400, why use a work computer for anything but work?

If he breached the APS Code of Conduct, he could have been reprimanded, fined, or demoted. Dismissal is the last resort and in this case seems a bit harsh.

I bet there’s heaps of public servants with work laptops who are feeling pretty nervous at the moment, particularly if they work for Resources.

Gantz said :

Rollersk8r, so you are saying that because he tried to hide all evidence and his tracks, he should be excused?

No – I’m saying he should be excused because it’s not that big a deal, certainly not worth the public humiliation, the department’s money, the court’s time etc etc. Although maybe there’s more to the story…

Years ago in a previous APS workplace someone accidentally left a hardcore DVD in a work laptop and returned it. Is this not exactly the same thing? Obviously it took about 2 seconds to track down who borrowed the computer. Instead of naming and sacking the person they sent out a very strongly worded first-and-final warning type email to everyone.

We had a laugh and made a lot of guesses about who it was – but never did find out and that’s as far as it went.

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Rollersk8r said :

Yes – read the story. Think it’s extremely sad that someone has lost their job and had their life ruined for looking at a few free and legal pictures. Yes – he was very foolish for using work equipment but in the guy’s defence he was using his own ISP and tried hard to remove all the evidence…

Read the decision. The main reason he lost his job was lying about the images rather than simply accessing them.

Well my understanding is he lost his job for breaching the APS Code of Conduct, specifically that he’d agreed at some point to not use work equipment for that purpose.

Rollersk8r said :

Yes – read the story. Think it’s extremely sad that someone has lost their job and had their life ruined for looking at a few free and legal pictures. Yes – he was very foolish for using work equipment but in the guy’s defence he was using his own ISP and tried hard to remove all the evidence…

Read the decision. The main reason he lost his job was lying about the images rather than simply accessing them.