Crud crud crud!

[Luv2Scrap]

I just {very accidentally} opened a post on Craigslist that had a picture of a naked guy in it. I'm at work!

I know rants and raves can get ugly, but that was a first for me! I deleted my cookies and history. Anything else I should do?

 

[sah95]

That has happened to me before too! It is quite a shock!! I literally (sp?) ran over to our computer person and told her what happened. She laughed and told others I was looking at naked people on work time!
However, I work at a not for profit mental health agency in Southeast Missouri - everybody thought it was funny!!

 

[Cantw8]

I'd get a better story I like to go with..."it wasn't me"

 

[Luv2Scrap]

Just found out my co-worker happened upon the same post...

 

[LuvOrlando]

Someone close to me worked in IT Security for a long time. When the rules first came out they were very cut and dry. But now the powers that be realize that lots of people get tricked into viewing stuff they do not want to see. The key to that argument is the length of time you linger over an image. When someone it IT looks into your stuff they can see exactly how long that image was up on your computer before you closed it. Every company will have their own guidelines but it's safe to say if you clicked and shut it down immediately
there would be a pretty thin argument for you intentionally looking at the subject. For your own protection, make a note of exactly what you did and when so you can pull the info out if it ever comes up in the future. It probably won't, but I think it's best to be careful.

 

[Tinker'n'Fun]

Um if your company is larger, that blip will not go away by cleaning your cookies/history. Just tell them the truth. It is so common, even pre-school sites randomly pop up porn. They shouldn't judge or even care, they will note it though so a virus and or trojan won't get through.

PS - never Craiglist at work.

 

[Luv2Scrap]

I should be alright, I wasn't on that page for longer than a millisecond!

I usually don't go to CL at work except for one thing - we have an ongoing slander issue against our department that we check daily.

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

Ssssoooo...what did he look like?

 

[Luv2Scrap]

Ssssoooo...what did he look like?

I don't know - hard to tell in a millisecond, especially when during that whole long millisecond, all you can see is that he's holding some sort of hose... or snake... or...

 

[PrincessKsMom]

Ssssoooo...what did he look like?

I don't know - hard to tell in a millisecond, especially when during that whole long millisecond, all you can see is that he's holding some sort of hose... or snake... or...

Can't tell in a millisecond -- that's why she printed a copy!

 

[Luv2Scrap]

Can't tell in a millisecond -- that's why she printed a copy!

 

[FireDancer]

I wouldn't worry about it. I am the I.S. Coordinator at my place of work and one of the things I do is handle the policing of the content the employees are allowed to see.

Contrary to what many people think, we don't look at or care about the content of every embedded picture on every site you see. If the place you worked were overly strict with the content filtering it is unlikely that the image would have made it to your screen. Technology exists to block domains we don't want you to go to and to block content based on meta data or classifications. Since the firewall didn't stop the image most likely it wasn't flagged as anything inappropriate.

When you look at a page on craigslist or any other page we are mostly concerned with the root domain you are viewing. If a craigslist posting contains a picture, it will look to us like you were looking at a craigslist posting, not porn. Yes, we can look at the logs and figure out exactly what the picture was, but unless there is cause to do so we won't. If I spent my day looking at every page my employees went to and did literally nothing else I could probably go through 25% of the pages they view and no more.

This is a simplification of course but I really doubt you care about the way firewalls view or crawl pages. As long as you aren't actually going to porn sites or sites flagged as inappropriate by whatever or whoever polices your network you should be fine. We care far more about sites containing malicious content or code than we are about dirty pictures.

If anything it would be going to craigslist in general that would cause problems in many workplaces as opposed to what you are viewing there.

 

[Duchie]

I used to be a manager at an IT company. Quite a few years ago (maybe 8 or so) one of my employees came running into my office saying, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" I finally got her to calm down enough to tell me that she was trying to view the site for the White House, and instead of ".gov", she typed in ".com" and got a porn website. I really wanted to giggle but had to stifle the laugh because she was so upset. I assured her it would be OK, and I let everyone know what had happened. THEN we laughed about it together.

 

[luvmyboys]

I used to be a manager at an IT company. Quite a few years ago (maybe 8 or so) one of my employees came running into my office saying, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" I finally got her to calm down enough to tell me that she was trying to view the site for the White House, and instead of ".gov", she typed in ".com" and got a porn website. I really wanted to giggle but had to stifle the laugh because she was so upset. I assured her it would be OK, and I let everyone know what had happened. THEN we laughed about it together.

I've inadvertently gone to the same sight, only it was WITH my DS for a school project! Umm, oops?

OP, I think you don't have anything to be concerned about.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

I used to be a manager at an IT company. Quite a few years ago (maybe 8 or so) one of my employees came running into my office saying, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" I finally got her to calm down enough to tell me that she was trying to view the site for the White House, and instead of ".gov", she typed in ".com" and got a porn website. I really wanted to giggle but had to stifle the laugh because she was so upset. I assured her it would be OK, and I let everyone know what had happened. THEN we laughed about it together.

Reminds me of how at my last company, I think EVERYONE at some point tried to find the Dick's Sporting Goods website...and not realized that they have to type in the whole thing, not just the "first word" "dot com"...

 

[Darsa]

Reminds me of how at my last company, I think EVERYONE at some point tried to find the Dick's Sporting Goods website...and not realized that they have to type in the whole thing, not just the "first word" "dot com"...

Guilty!! I still get crap from my DH and DD about this!