At a previous employ WTF's occurred on a daily basis... everything from developers being made IT managers to database passwords being storred in plain-text in the registry. But I digress.
The following took place on my second last day with the company, who I'll call Global Composites.
For months we'd been waiting for a new factory and office building, it had been touted as the promised land that would surely save us from all the trials and tribulations of the past.... however I suspect that the time of problems is far from over.
The time finally came to shift our datacentre (I use that term lightly) into its new home and that meant also rejoining all the PCs from a previously satellite Head Office into the AD domain once again. However one of these PCs, a laptop was a little different...
This pc belonged to the company's training officer, someone who apparently had an extensive IT background. Unfortunately, in it's 1 year of use this employee saw fit to fill it with assorted pirated AVI dvd-rips, music, cracked software installations and the like.
This being a company laptop, a fellow Admin decided to clear these files and in the process in-advertently deleted some psuedo-legitimate music files (ripped training CDs). They were mixed in with other questionable mp3 files, so it was not a hard mistake to make...
At this point, the laptop was back to working efficiently and we thought that was that... so to speak. However this employee thought it prudent to complain to management about his loss, including his music and illegal content. His point of contact was our new IT manager, someone whom I thought should know the implications of illegal content to a company.
However it was at this point I was told "You see because the laptop is mentioned in the employee's contract, it is technically partially his and thus must be allowed certain freedoms, one of which is to store his home files if need be. So its a bit of a grey area" - IT Manager. I can understand if this was a salary sacrificed laptop, but the fact is... it wasn't, it was a company laptop that was his work machine for the duration of his employment, pretty clear cut in my opinion. I doubt very much that the company would reimburse the employee his part of the laptop when he left the company...
It was at this point my fellow Admin was called in for disciplinary action for deleting a user's files....
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That's a grey area...