Sixty second hypothetical.

[rivka]

Your boss lets her nine-year-old son hang out in your office sometimes, when she's working in the evening or on weekends. When he's here, he uses your computer. (And never puts the mouse back on the left side, but that's beside the point.)

You have Internet Explorer set up to clear the history file every day, but IE also keeps track of URLs which have been directly typed in - you can access them from the address bar. One of the ways you can tell that your boss's son has been using your computer is that sites like cartoonnetwork.com and nickelodeon.com appear in the address bar menu. Okay. But one morning, nakedladys.com is right in there with the addresses for cartoon websites. You click on the link to make sure it's not an ironically-named site for kids. It's not.

You have no idea whether your institution monitors Internet usage for porn viewing, although it's pretty obvious that no one is checking to see how much time you spend on non-work-related sites in general.

Do you tell your boss? And if so, what do you tell her?

Comments

[ex-helygen254.livejournal.com]

I definitely tell my boss about the site being accessed by someone other than you. I'd probably mention when it happened and let her figure out who it was, but I suppose it would depend on the boss. I'd also want to give her a good smack for letting her use my office and computer as a play area.

Speaking on the parent side, I would want to know so I could talk to him about it. I don't expect I'd be surprised to hear that he was visiting such sites.