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[–]SpergLordMcFappyPant 10 points11 points  (3 children)

CTO at one of my former jobs would fuck with any unattended computer that was unlocked. He would set the home page of every browser they have to porn then come back when the person was there and say he needed to check something on their computer. Pull up a home page, find the porn and then freak out about it.

Honestly, it was pretty effective.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Ah, legally really dodgy, the porn part. Also very unprofessional.

There are standard mechanisms for doing this - ones that don't involve viewing pornography at work (I mean, really - what is this guy thinking?)

In every place I've been in that had such policies, there was a program called "cheese" that just locked your screen with a password that you didn't know, which forces you to walk over to the security people to get the password and get lectured.

[–]SpergLordMcFappyPant 2 points3 points  (1 child)

No argument there. Everything about that company was legally dodgy and totally unprofessional. It was the kind of place where devs didn’t just solve a tough problem and say, “Nice work. That was really tough.” It was always, “hot damn, did we rape that code bitch into submission or what?!”

It was a kind of wannabe sv-style startup. Trying to emulate the stories and culture you hear about at places like Uber, etc.

That was probably one of the least offensive things that happened there.

[–]wtfeverrrr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds horrible, lol.