Originally Posted by clownboy
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I don't see where it says he surfed for porn on his breaks. Email that enters the company system, that part of the spool the company pays to house and maintain - that belongs to the company. And every company has it's own rules on browsing.
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Indeed. I was simply making an equivalence between various time wasting activities employees frequently get up to. Unless there is a noticeable disruption of the work to be done, most of it is not used as a firing offense.
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Perhaps it's legal, but it's still stored and accessed using company equipment (which, again, the company pays to house and maintain).
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A fair point but, surely, the costs, if it ever could be evaluated, would count in cents. When you're browsing, you're using company's money too (electricity, internet connections etc). Same with everything else like photocopying your passport photo because you need it for a landlord. Again, company leaving some leeway is usual.
Let's not pretend that this was anything but some people doing what they thought they had to to protect "the image" of their corporation. The rest is just eye powder. And i personally don't think that Peugeot image is significantly damaged because some of its workers enjoy a bit of porn. I would expect that the guys who did the firing also watch porn from time to time... I would expect the judges who first upheld the decision and those who shot it down to all watch porn from time to time. As long as it is "within reason and within legal bounds", i think there is no case to answer...