[Cerek the Barbaric]

Originally posted by Lauren: Hmm...well I'll know not to play solitaire when I finally get a job [img]tongue.gif[/img] I think in a way the spyware was a good idea, because the boss didn't seem to be doing much work. But it was also a bad idea because spyware is illegal.

Spyware is not illegal (otherwise my computers wouldn't have been infected with it). It especially is not illegal if it is being used for a legitimate purpose. The employee in question was the Network Administrator. As such, it was his job to supervise what activity was ocurring on ALL of the computers in his network. If anybody should be fired, it should have been the boss that was spending so much time playing Solitaire. More than 70 percent of the images from his bosses computer contained Solitaire screens. The implication is that the boss - who I'm sure makes a big, fat salary - is apparantly only working 30% of the time he is in the office - if that. That 70% of screen images probably does not include lunch hour and breaks, so this guy was giving productive work maybe 25% of the time he was "on the clock".