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I was walking around the office late one Friday afternoon. I was chatting with everyone, cubicle by cubicle, about was going on. Then I got to “Chris’” cubicle, and I noticed something on his computer.
Chris was looking at porn.
Chris quickly switched from the porn website to another website. I went back to my office, and I thought about what I should do.
It was instantly obvious.
I called Chris, and I asked him to come to my office. One minute later Chris was in my office.
“Close the door,” I said.
Then I continued. In a very calm voice I said, “I noticed what you had on your computer, and we just can’t have that here.
“If it happens again, we will have no choice but to let you go. Do you understand?”
Chris said, “I do understand.”
“Okay, then get back to work.”
You can choose to ignore the small ethical challenges or you can do the right thing.
It would have been so easy just to ignore what Chris was doing. It was just porn. Boys will be boys, right?
