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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Not me, but a good friend of mine. He has a film production/editing side hustle. He was doing a promotional video for a night club, high end place ...like if you're not a good looking girl, if you're inside you're somebody or know somebody and they've got you in. So the owner of the establishment had hired a guy with a semi decent reputation to do all the filming and stills of the club while open and when it's closed to hire out for events. So buddy's going through footage with the camera guy and the owner, flicking through, everything looks good, then a bunch of stills and videos of actual porn. Not like amateur shit, like a full set, lights, crew, the lot. Buddy just skips through, apparently it's not all that uncommon. After they've got through the footage, the owner says to the camera guy:
Thanks, I think we have enough to put something together. I'll call if {buddy} needs more to work with.

So camera guy is away, and owner turns to buddy and says:
Did you fucking see that?!

Buddy explains it's not that uncommon to find sex pics and video on the same drive as professional shots.

Owner replied:
THAT'S MY FUCKING CLUB! AS A FUCKING PORN SET!!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

CEO of our company asked me for help with his computer, opened Outlook, and I saw in the search results he searched for "sex." He was sitting right next to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Struggling with his gender identity.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Our friend had his phone opened on IG. A random picture of an Asian girl with literal "airbag" boobs popped up, rather naked. Those boobs were so artificially inflated though that it reminds me of an AI image.

We now clown him constantly

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

Not weird, but funny and unexpected.

I work in live entertainment. I deal with all kinds of shows, but the vast majority of them involve clients making/sourcing content to use in their shows. For instance, something as simple as a PowerPoint presentation on a projector, or music tracks for a dance show. So I use a lot of computers that don’t belong to me.

The funniest interaction I’ve ever had involved a speaker for a Black History Month presentation. The speaker brought his laptop in, with his slides all ready to go. So we plug it into the projector and he opens it up. As soon as he logs in, we’re both greeted to some hardcore porn playing in full screen. This lady was handling a whole 12 inches like a champ.

Luckily I had the projector blacked out, so it wasn’t catastrophic. It was only the two of us who saw it. What made it so funny was the fact that the dude wasn’t even ashamed of it. He took a beat, admired what was on the screen, gave a quiet “uh huh”, nodded solemnly, and then slowly moved his mouse cursor to close the browser tab. If he had acted flustered, it would have been a funny interaction. But the fact that he wasn’t in any rush to turn it off (despite the fact that I was sitting right next to him, waiting for him to boot up that presentation,) just had me fucking rolling.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Boss called me in because his computer was slow. What I saw was a desktop filled to the last pixel with files, stacked on top of each other and hundreds of open browser windows with hundreds of tabs each and a blurry background image of the building we were in (honestly a beautiful old, restored building but it was his whole identity). I had no words.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I had a boss who asked me about a similar thing, their computer was going slow. I saw them checking their email by booting up their (quite old) Mac, launching a VM which loaded a full Windows installation, then opening Outlook inside Windows. I asked about it, and apparently they used to have a PC and Outlook set up for their email, then at some point had switched to Mac and somehow landed on that as the solution. I told them you can just install Outlook directly onto the Mac and they said I was being unhelpful lol.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I knew a guy that had to come out to his parents (as both gay and a furry) because he set gay furry porn as his lock screen. Not quite sure what the reasoning was there...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Back in highschool my friend managed to set his family pc's desktop to an animated gif of a woman getting a facial.

I got the most desperate phone call asking me to come over and help. I showed up and set it to normal about 1 min before his mom came home.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Cool, so now he owes you his life and eternal soul. What are you going to do with it? /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I was called in as tech support. On a work PC in a shared office (financial consulting firm), the desktop wallpaper was a full frontal nude of the co-worker sitting across the room.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

That sounds like an SNL sketch of a sexual harassment in the workplace training video

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Yes, apparently everyone was banging each other in that firm.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I can't believe this ain't a porn plot lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

"Why are the financial reports from these guys always sticky?"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

At least it was consensual?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Seeing porn/nudity is seemingly quite common but this... this is just different enough that I felt uneasy after reading it.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Worked as the tech person for an office supply store in the US.

Regular (annoying) customer comes in with his desktop and printer in a cart asking for us to "verify the connections between his printer and computer", because it wasn't working.

Hook it all up to our work bench. It was a Win7 machine or something. Before I could navigate it, he urges me out of the way so he could show me what was wrong.

He opens chrome. You know how browsers will ask you to restore tabs when they close improperly? He clicked that option when it pops up. The first thing I see is a movie streaming site that's in Russian with porn ads everywhere. Just raw dogging it.

He closes that tab to reveal an image of a naked child on the next tab. He closes that tab, and there's another one.

I don't really remember what I did, but in hindsight I wish I had called the police. I think he just ended up leaving the store with his stuff after that, but I learned months later that he came back in to use our self-service copiers and had more pictures, and our store manager threatened him and kicked him out.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

and our store manager threatened him and kicked him out.

As difficult as it may be in the heat of the moment, the best thing to do in this circumstance is to initially act like nothing is wrong, and then quietly alert the authorities ASAP. If you just kick them out, they’ll find someone else to do the work, but they’ll be more careful with that next person. You don’t want to scare them into the wind, because then investigators will have a much harder time.

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