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Semi off topic anecdote: when I was at Lockheed the head of HR came to me with a Manila envelope and said "I need to know who printed this and when! And I need to know now!"

I took the envelope and looked at it... It was a bunch of prints of gay porn and gay porn websites.

After a few minutes of digging, it was revealed to be one of the directors in the company had printed them late the night before. Checking the badge system he wasn't in the building. Checked VPN logs and he was logged in at the time.

He was mistakenly on VPN from his house and printed stuff that went to his default printer which happened to be the one in the office.

He was previously thought to be a married straight guy.



Similar scenario happened where I was working one summer. The printer in the office I was borrowing started printing porn while I was out. "I swear it wasn't me!" Not sure if they identified the guilty party.


> He was previously thought to be a married straight guy.

Not sure why this is relevant. Are you saying Lockheed has/had a don't-ask-don't-tell policy?


Eh, it could just mean that technological mishaps can have real world consequences. Presumably the man did not want people to know that he was gay, whatever the reason for that was we can't say for sure.


Maybe that was worded inadequately; he was a married straight guy, with kids... But his printing spree was kind of a shock.


A workplace sure as hell should be "don't ask". I don't know what leap of logic you used to get "don't tell", though.




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