I wish I was allowed to view porn at work

[Nija]

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1024244.ece



Final porn decision
Norway's Supreme Court supported decisions refusing Conoco Phillips the right to fire two workers who surfed the Internet for pornographic images on company time.

The two workers on the Ekofisk field lost their jobs after being caught peeping at porn on the job in the summer of 2002. The pair took their case to court and won at both the municipal and appeals level, NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting) reports.

Conoco Phillips appealed the decisions to the Supreme Court in order to have a clarification of what employees can do on company time and what employers can do to enforce violations of company policy.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the firings were not justified and have awarded the two NOK 250,000 (USD 40,000) each in compensation.

[welfareloser]

i wish i got $40,000 for looking at porn at work!

[Burzhui]

i wish i got $40,000 for looking at porn at work!


you don't have a job dude

1) get hired
2) view porn
3) get excited
4) get fired
5) sue

[bachviet]

I don't think I want to try that at work.

[Merlin]

My company has so much blocked I doubt I could view it even if I wanted to.

[TofuNinja]

wow Norway is cool hahaha

[welfareloser]

you don't have a job dude



:disa: yeah... that ruins so many of my get-rich-quick schemes...

[TofuNinja]

I thought you were a stay at home mom.... that sounds like a job to me.

[verve247]

I thought you were a stay at home mom.... that sounds like a job to me.

But she doesn't get paid, so it is more like slave labor.

[welfareloser]

I thought you were a stay at home mom.... that sounds like a job to me.

yeah... but not the kind with a paycheck or sue-able employer :P




But she doesn't get paid, so it is more like slave labor.

it pays... just not in money. ;)

[Mommypooh]

A woman named Emily renewing her driver's license at the Transport office was asked by the clerk to state her occupation. She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself. "What I mean is," explained the clerk, "do you have a job, or are you just a ......?



"Of course I have a job," snapped Emily. "I'm a Mum."



"We don't list 'Mum' as an occupation...'housewife' covers it," said the clerk emphatically.



I forgot all about her story until one day I found myself in the same

situation, this time at our local police station. The clerk was obviously a career woman, poised, efficient, and possessed of a high sounding title like, "Official Interrogator" or "Town Registrar."



"What is your occupation?" she probed.



What made me say it, I do not know... The words simply popped out.



"I'm a Research Associate in the field of Child Development and Human Relations." The clerk paused, pen frozen in midair, and looked up as though she had not heard right. I repeated the title slowly, emphasizing the most significant words. Then I stared with wonder as my pronouncement was written in bold, black ink on the official questionnaire!

"Might I ask," said the clerk with new interest, "just what you do in your field?"



Coolly, without any trace of fluster in my voice, I heard myself reply, "I have a continuing program of research, (what mother doesn't), in the laboratory and in the field, (normally I would have said indoors and out). I'm working for my Masters, (the whole bloody family), and already have four credits, (all daughters). Of course, the job is one of the most demanding in the humanities, (any mother care to disagree.?) and I often work 14 hours a day, (24 is more like it). But the job is more challenging than most run-of-the-mill careers and the rewards are more of a satisfaction rather than just money."



There was an increasing note of respect in the girl's voice as she completed the form, stood up, and personally ushered me to the door.



When I got home, buoyed up by my glamorous new career, I was greeted by my lab assistants -- ages 10, 7, and 3. Upstairs, I could hear our new experimental model, (a 6 month old baby), in the child-development program, testing out a new vocal pattern. I felt I had triumphed over bureaucracy! And I had gone on the official records as someone more distinguished and indispensable to mankind than "just another Mum."



Motherhood.....What a glorious career -- especially when there's a title on the door. Does this make grandmothers "Senior Research Associates in the field of Child Development and Human Relations" and great grandmothers "Executive Senior Research Associates"? I think so!!!

[BrewMaster]

couldn't they fire those clowns for not working while at work? it doesn't matter what they were looking at. i think the employer has the right to fire someone if they are doing something other than working while at work.

:shifty: It's my break time right now, I swear. :shifty:

[welfareloser]

couldn't they fire those clowns for not working while at work?

apparently, that's exactly what was at issue... they were on company time, but the company policy about what you may and may not do and what the punishments would be wasn't very explicit.

[cheapie]

same as a guy that was in my marketing group in amsterdam. he was smoking pot on the premises and got fired. but he didn't get fired for smoking pot, just smoking anything. it's against company policy to smoke on company grounds, no matter what the substance. lol.