Moral of the story...do your job when you're at work. Choose to do things that are against company policy and be willing to accept the punishment.

I won't be a hypocrite and say I have never surfed "unauthorized" sites from work or written e-mails that violated company policy, but if I ever got busted for it I'd take my knocks and move on.

And, yes, I've been written up for such things in the past, so I speak from experience...

 

Actually, from the tone of the guys posts he seemed to be taking it like a man. He was not complaining about being fired for the wrong reasons, just stating that he had been fired. Almost seems like a polite warning to others.

 

That was pretty much the impression I got from reading the thread. I was referring mostly to the idea that the employer might be acting unfairly.

As long as the rules are clearly stated then it's our problem if we break them...

 

That would suck ...