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Really? Using company resources for personal gain? Surely would sound like misconduct to any HR board in the world.

meatsock 15y ago
its of course a reasonable assumption to infer it was for personal gain, but it's not mentioned in the article, and the gossip column it sourced the info from is registration only.
- jacques_chester 15y ago
  It's still personal use of ABC resources. It's a publicly funded broadcaster, I'm paying for it. I'm happy with this nong being sacked.
  - ferdinan 15y ago
    What the article doesn't clarify is that the miner could have been running on the company's website as a JavaScript client, mining with website visitor's CPU cycles for personal gain.
    - jacques_chester 15y ago
      Uh, that would IMO make it worse.
  - dools 15y ago
    ke ke ke nong. I'm going to make a committment to use this word once a day for the next month.
lhnz 15y ago
Everybody uses company resources for personal gain. If we got no gain from working: we wouldn't work. The only difference is that this gain creates a zero-sum game in which the company is at a loss.
- gaius 15y ago
  Well, anyone who looks at Facebook or reads their email at work is technically misusing company resources. But when smokers take a 15 minute break every hour, I think a company who fired you for poking someone would find itself staring down the wrong end of a tribunal.
  - JacobAldridge 15y ago
    I think that comes down to expectations. If an employer decides that Facebook is a distraction, communicates with staff that the site will be blocked, AND an employee hacks around the block in order to access the site - that could be a dismissal offence (more likely a warning, but if it's part of repeated behaviour...). Compare that to the (albeit, sadly, probably more likely) scenario that you are probably referring to - a boss deciding he wants to sack someone and using Facebook use, which the business has never actually defined one way or the other, as a reason - and yes, that's a silly business move.
- csomar 15y ago
  Everybody uses company resources for personal gain. Everybody uses company resources for the company gains. Only. In the end of the month, the company pays you something called 'salary'. You use the salary as you want. That's your gain. And your only gain. (Okay, may be bonuses, equity...) That's what I know (and learned) so far.
  - lhnz 15y ago
    Change your tone: I'm sure we all understand the concept of 'salary'. :) I don't think that's our only gain from working at a company. Working at a company (1) gives you experience working on projects that you might not be able to get without the required trust in your personal brand, (2) socialises you with technical people from your discipline, and (3) increases your job security. I particularly consider (2) very important. Of course, you can quit your job and create as startup, but: you're creating risk for yourself and there are things which companies provide employees which have to be built over time.

its of course a reasonable assumption to infer it was for personal gain, but it's not mentioned in the article, and the gossip column it sourced the info from is registration only.

jacques_chester 15y ago
It's still personal use of ABC resources. It's a publicly funded broadcaster, I'm paying for it. I'm happy with this nong being sacked.
- ferdinan 15y ago
  What the article doesn't clarify is that the miner could have been running on the company's website as a JavaScript client, mining with website visitor's CPU cycles for personal gain.
  - jacques_chester 15y ago
    Uh, that would IMO make it worse.
- dools 15y ago
  ke ke ke nong. I'm going to make a committment to use this word once a day for the next month.

lhnz 15y ago

Everybody uses company resources for personal gain. If we got no gain from working: we wouldn't work. The only difference is that this gain creates a zero-sum game in which the company is at a loss.

gaius 15y ago
Well, anyone who looks at Facebook or reads their email at work is technically misusing company resources. But when smokers take a 15 minute break every hour, I think a company who fired you for poking someone would find itself staring down the wrong end of a tribunal.
- JacobAldridge 15y ago
  I think that comes down to expectations. If an employer decides that Facebook is a distraction, communicates with staff that the site will be blocked, AND an employee hacks around the block in order to access the site - that could be a dismissal offence (more likely a warning, but if it's part of repeated behaviour...). Compare that to the (albeit, sadly, probably more likely) scenario that you are probably referring to - a boss deciding he wants to sack someone and using Facebook use, which the business has never actually defined one way or the other, as a reason - and yes, that's a silly business move.
csomar 15y ago
Everybody uses company resources for personal gain. Everybody uses company resources for the company gains. Only. In the end of the month, the company pays you something called 'salary'. You use the salary as you want. That's your gain. And your only gain. (Okay, may be bonuses, equity...) That's what I know (and learned) so far.
- lhnz 15y ago
  Change your tone: I'm sure we all understand the concept of 'salary'. :) I don't think that's our only gain from working at a company. Working at a company (1) gives you experience working on projects that you might not be able to get without the required trust in your personal brand, (2) socialises you with technical people from your discipline, and (3) increases your job security. I particularly consider (2) very important. Of course, you can quit your job and create as startup, but: you're creating risk for yourself and there are things which companies provide employees which have to be built over time.