Why would you do this at work?

[Kheldarson]

This just happened, so I'm typing on my phone. Apologies in advance for any typos and missed autocorrects.

So...I work nights and happen to be the sole female on overnights. For various reasons, I don't take my break when the guys do. However, tonight I happened to come in at the tail end of the guys' lunch. One of the supervisors was sitting off to the side watching something on his phone, but the table was right in front of my locker, so I had to walk behind him.

Human nature being what it is, I ended up taking a side glance at his phone.

He was watching porn.

Aren't those vids labelled NSFW for a reason?

[Tama]

Okay, ewww...

If you're going to do that, go to the bathroom!

But seriously...you're a woman?!

[Kheldarson]

Yes, I mean, I hope so. Would be a bit of a surprise for my hubs and kid if I weren't

[Tama]

I always get surprised on this site. Some usernames are gender-ambiguous and if I don't see them posting obvious hints, like about having had a hysterectomy, or a vasectomy, it's hard to tell.

[MoonCat]

Coulda been worse. We had a manager who used to watch it on his computer in his cubicle. Don't know how he never got caught at it.

We also had a very long-time employee who finally retired a couple years ago. When they cleaned out his desk after he left, they found porn stashed in one of the desk drawers. Then we all recalled how he used to spread out the newspaper across his desk every day....

[NecessaryCatharsis]

This is extremely common where I work, as is finding porn in the porta potties, nailed to the walls of site offices, and doodles all over the unfinished buildings. Sometimes I get bored with never ending visions of naked ladies, and retaliate with some hot men. Some of the other trades have gotten upset, but my coworkers just laugh, 'she has to look at boobies all day, you can handle this for a couple of days'. I just find it all very funny.

[fireheart]

This is extremely common where I work, as is finding porn in the porta potties, nailed to the walls of site offices, and doodles all over the unfinished buildings. Sometimes I get bored with never ending visions of naked ladies, and retaliate with some hot men. Some of the other trades have gotten upset, but my coworkers just laugh, 'she has to look at boobies all day, you can handle this for a couple of days'. I just find it all very funny.

that's hilarious.

You should take down their porn and put up the old "pin-up" girls.

[Silent-Hunter]

Oooh! I love unfinished building doodles, a lot of them are hilarious.

As for porta potties, once I had to use at a construction site when I was taking a walk had written on the wall in permanent marker "Do not feed brown fish in toilet."

[Seshat]

You should take down their porn and put up the old "pin-up" girls.

Some of those women were gorgeous. I know they were posted in flattering poses, properly lit, flaws hidden with make-up, etc etc. And that the finished product had had the scissors-and-sticky-tape version of 'photoshop' done.

But I'd rather look at those than at most modern porn, any day. Even porn of guys.

[Ophbalance]

Ohhhh, I've got doodles from the crew that built my house. They never finished mudding the garage (which still irks, but meh).

[Food Lady]

that's hilarious.

You should take down their porn and put up the old "pin-up" girls.

No, put up pics of Hilda.
http://www.toilgirls.com/hilda/gallery.html

[catcul]

This story reminds me of two stories. The project manager at the bank went to change a server at a corporate center. He sent back pictures of the server room that doubled as an office for IT "professionals." He saw WWE posters on the wall of both male and female superstars. He also found a calendar with bikini models that was 4 years out of date. I can't imagine why someone would keep an obsolete calendar filled with pictures of pretty, half-naked women.

My sister told the rest of our family about a former coworker of hers. He was fired because he had a picture of his wife as the background on his computer. She was naked in that picture. If she was in a bikini in that pic, he wouldn't have been fired.

I agree, if you want to "make yourself happy," you should wait to get home first.

[Aislin]

Ugh.... Yeah I was the only female IT tech on a large project. When they would they booked me on any building they would use the gender neutral version of my name, think Kris or Alex. Most places where fine with me, even security and the machine shops but one place freaked out. They kept trying to block me from the shop, I pointed out I was the ONLY one on the whole team who had clearance to be in that building and if I had to call a supervisor all heck would break loose. I had enough age and sex discrimination on that job and I had to have a thick skin.

There was a flurry of activity as they pulled down posters and calendars and tucked them away. I had to change the desktop and scream saver because policy was only standard desktops were allowed. I gave them a warning, someone would be remoting in to check to make sure I had done my work and that the standards were in place. They all looked at their shoes as I walked out.

[bhskittykatt]

At my last job, I found the maintenance man's stash of porn underneath some manuals in his shop. I needed to look up some information on a day I was doing maintenance and was going through the binders, and I found "the" binder that was full of nudie magazines. Other MOD made him take it home.

[BeeMused]

That reminds me about the story I posted about
http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...ad.php?t=69947