It's only funny in retrospect.  At the time it was horrifying and, frankly, scary...

I'm pretty sure we were all still hanging out at Cruel.  I was following a discussion while at my desk.  I did not work in a cube at the time, but in an open space in a sort of "front office" environment (which, however, was not open to the public and did not get a lot of traffic) and my monitor was visible to about half of the room (generally occupied by me and one other person).

Idiotically, I clicked an html'ed word and instantly my computer screen filled with the image of a man, naked except for boots and various studs and leather straps, pulling a very large and very shiny chromed chain out of his own rectum.  The photo's composition centered around the chain exiting the guy's ass.

If you saw the photo, you probably remember it.  It was in black and white.  It was very artistic.  The chain was amazingly shiny.

The monitor faced a wall of the office which had a door connecting to the sales area, a large becubed room which housed about sixty sales reps.  If anyone had opened that door at that moment my life would have been very different.

I grabbed at the mouse in a panic and it skittered right out of my hand.  I hit the "Back" button.  Then I closed my browser.  Then I re-opened my browser and cleared my history and closed it again.  I was very, very productive, and also short of breath, the rest of the afternoon.

I had to quit daytime Cruel about 4 years ago, when I hired a Pollyanna-type girl to work for me. I was so very productive when she was there. I was too bored to do anything but work.

All in all, sociopathic sadism is a better workplace hobby than let's say...online poker...or buying useless crap on eBay. They should be happy for us.

I just discovered Space Ghetto for the first time. Animal killing for fun. Shit eating. My brain will explode...

I used to work at a very uptight government office with extreme computer security and draconian measures to prevent (among other things) passing/viewing porn. The security department did regular reviews of material exchanged on the system, websites accessed, etc.; "abuse" of the system was an instant firing offense.  A number of employees ignored the constant warnings and started e-mailing porn pics. I wasn't there long enough to witness any repercussions, but I have to wonder how many employees were shown the door for having a little computer fun at work.

One time at that job, a woman and her deaf desk partner were typing funny, obscene messages back and forth. She accidentally saved---permanently---a page of written porn to a client's account record. No way to expunge the offending material. Oooops!

Luckily, my work computer is in my house.  The glories of self employment.  I can (selectively) show the family the weirdness.  We all benefit from the shitz and giggles.

scarydog wrote:

I used to work at a very uptight government office with extreme computer security and draconian measures to prevent (among other things) passing/viewing porn. The security department did regular reviews of material exchanged on the system, websites accessed, etc.; "abuse" of the system was an instant firing offense.  A number of employees ignored the constant warnings and started e-mailing porn pics. I wasn't there long enough to witness any repercussions, but I have to wonder how many employees were shown the door for having a little computer fun at work.

This is why I bring my personal laptop and a GSM card. My last contract involved the same anal IT types who through sheer boredom had nothing better to do than browse every single url that passed through the firewall.

Fortunately my new job includes being the server monkey so I needn't worry about that, but screen viewing angle will still be crucial.