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This should be talked about as much a drugs and alcohol. I once watched a great dev get terminated because he would repeatedly and instinctively pull up porn si
by Railsify 7y ago
This should be talked about as much a drugs and alcohol. I once watched a great dev get terminated because he would repeatedly and instinctively pull up porn sites at work, like in the same manner you might get frustrated at an error message and pull up Hacker News as a distraction, this guys would do it with porn. So sad. He did it in front of me once, I was like 'Whoa bro, wtf is going on here, not cool.', he just muttered 'sorry' and something about muscle memory. I did not rat him out but apparently he had done it several times before, other employees noticed and had told HR. HR had started to review his web history, one day they asked me to stay late for an emergency meeting, they explained that it had happened again (probably the 3rd of 4th time) and someone made a written complaint so they had no choice but to terminate him for cause, I elected not to fight for him. He is a good developer, I hope he found some help. He was the kind of dev you don't need to micro-manage, his estimates were always fairly accurate and turned in code that met requirements. I had a side conversation with our IT manager after the termination and asked how much time they thought he was spending on those sites, apparently very little, he would bring up the home pages of his favorite sites then quickly realize what he was doing and close them, we are not talking about porn surfing sessions but they couldn't have a guy known as the 'porn dude' working for them.