Advice please

Metranil_Vavin

I'd say you were quite likely to be dismissed

bristol_pilot

He will probably be dismissed, it's clearly gross misconduct. (I'm a bit surprised that MSN was even installed on a Company PC, or was the browser version used?)

getmore4less

Darth_Marty wrote: »

A mate of mine is a Manager in a currently underperforming branch. Hes had some meetings with the top brass but no warnings at all. The company is still profitable I must say. As far as he knows there is no internet policy in play, certainly nothing documented anyway. So, the story goes like this, last week his director found his msn chat history, along with some soft !!!!!! pics, 2 in total, and the chat history was frankly huge. Detailing times and days going back years, sometimes he would waste hours on msn, all obviously during work times. To make issues worse some of the recent chat history was very explicit. He was suspended pending an investigation and his meeting is set for next tuesday.
My question to you more knowledgeable folk is - Does he have any chance of keeping his job?
Personally I think thats enough evidence to bury him however because of the lack of internet policy he thinks he will escape with a warning.

What do you reckon?

Perhaps if he had been doing his job and the branch was performing this would not be an issue,

The nature of the material just compounds the problem he was not doing his job and the figures show it.

Zazen999

Darth_Marty wrote: »

A mate of mine is a Manager in a currently underperforming branch.

Detailing times and days going back years, sometimes he would waste hours on msn, all obviously during work times.


...because of the lack of internet policy he thinks he will escape with a warning.

What do you reckon?

The IT is just the tool that your chum has used during his mismanagement of his branch. This will have nothing to do with internet policy, the !!!!!! is just the icing on the cake [so to speak].

I find it amazing that someone how is a manager of a branch is this naive; if he found another member of staff doing this, then he would expect to dismiss them wouldn't he??? Internet policy or no internet policy.