Saturday 24 June 2006

Another Office Story: porn freezes computer.

DVLA sacks 14 employees after e-mail porn freezes its computer

Fourteen staff at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in Swansea have been sacked and 101 disciplined after they swapped so many pornographic e-mails that it affected the organisation’s mainframe computer.

Trouble began when computers started slowing down because of the size and number of images being sent.

A woman worker who did not want to be named said: “Boredom is a major problem in this place. The work can be very tedious and people find ways of livening up their days".