Here is a situation that I encountered. I'd like to get some input on what people think about this whole ethical/moral ordeal before I post what happened as a result.
One of my employees was working on a person's computer. It was a windows98 machine. In the normal course of troubleshooting he went to go to the settings option in the start menu and the mouse highlighted the my documents option which of course shot out and displayed the recently accessed docs list. Now, he wasn't snooping but when things pop out at you you tend to look and he saw this file: nine_year_old_raped.wmv
At the time there was no senior management at the shop and he stopped working on it. When I arrived he was very upset. He told me what happened and that he refused to work on the machine. I asked him if he actually looked at the file and he said no.
The machine in question belonged to the parents of a guy I knew in high school. The parents were on vacation and he had been on the puter when it stopped working and brought it in.
On the one hand I have an employee that has a sister who was molested from the ages of 7-12 by a step father who is very expectant of me. And the other...a guy I know who I all of a sudden was sickened to even think about.
My first step to try to resolve my employee's issues (I had hoped) was to view the file. I viewed approx. 5 seconds of it and knew it was what the title said it was. And there were other files that were titled similarly. A lot of them.
Technically by law I am not required to report this. However, by US State Code a citizen is considered required by law to report any information concerning crimes which may be commited upon children. Though, the man who brought the computer in had no children there was no way I was going to watch these to see if I recognized any of them or anything.
Tell me what you all think about this.
One of my employees was working on a person's computer. It was a windows98 machine. In the normal course of troubleshooting he went to go to the settings option in the start menu and the mouse highlighted the my documents option which of course shot out and displayed the recently accessed docs list. Now, he wasn't snooping but when things pop out at you you tend to look and he saw this file: nine_year_old_raped.wmv
At the time there was no senior management at the shop and he stopped working on it. When I arrived he was very upset. He told me what happened and that he refused to work on the machine. I asked him if he actually looked at the file and he said no.
The machine in question belonged to the parents of a guy I knew in high school. The parents were on vacation and he had been on the puter when it stopped working and brought it in.
On the one hand I have an employee that has a sister who was molested from the ages of 7-12 by a step father who is very expectant of me. And the other...a guy I know who I all of a sudden was sickened to even think about.
My first step to try to resolve my employee's issues (I had hoped) was to view the file. I viewed approx. 5 seconds of it and knew it was what the title said it was. And there were other files that were titled similarly. A lot of them.
Technically by law I am not required to report this. However, by US State Code a citizen is considered required by law to report any information concerning crimes which may be commited upon children. Though, the man who brought the computer in had no children there was no way I was going to watch these to see if I recognized any of them or anything.
Tell me what you all think about this.