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In reply to the discussion: Fine. I'll ask it. What is the punishment for viewing images of breastfeeding babies at your [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)people can be given notices, warnings and fired even.
It really depends on the IT and HR departments.
Those places that are less crazy and allow people to browse include these photos under pornography policies (Why I laugh). Others simply do not allow any browsing that cuts into work time. A few of those will let people browse on Cybermonday... which has become a tradition.
Where things like those policies get all kinds of funny are with news media. Believe it or not, a local station has rules that make you go WTF? Think about it, you might have to, in the course of a day, go look at websites that might make even you very uncomfortable. The usual feeds from warzone and disaster areas that have raw tape are a good example. But for that IT has to give their blessing.
True story, in the dark ages of the internet, I had AOL as my ISP (I still do, it is convenient the same address) I was doing research on white supremacy. AOL had those sites blocked due to under age users of the ISP. They actually had to give me permission and flag my computer to allow it to go there. These days it is whatever I want to do.
So there are real consequences, why NSFW warnings are not that crazy. It is normal internet courtesy. I still laugh, but given that we have had people use their on work computers for oh I don't know hard core porn... it is not that far off.
For that here you go, one of the many stories on the subject
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/porn-at-work/
This is far more genetic, but just do a google search of porn and work.