The suffering of a fool, forced to suffer yet even greater fools

Okay, so I know it’s kinda pot kettle black for me to be griping about folks using the company computer for personal stuff. I mean, I currently waiting on word from the patent office about the rights to it, but this is just plain wrong: I came into work this morning (hey, 11:30 still morning) and found my idiot assistant rebooting the computer. He said something about not knowing why but it was working very slowly. After a brief bit of detective work, by which I mean running Internet Explorer and looking at it, I find that a new program has been installed (some sort of search tool from Lycos or one of thems) and that we’re getting pop-ups like crazy. So I go to the control panel and remove the program. There I notice that there’s something called the “xxx toolbar” also installed, I try to remove it but to no effect. So I decide to check the history on the google searchbar and sure enough someone – almost definitely, the aforementioned idiot assistant – made a search for “Girls of Home Depot”. No shit. Girls of Home Depot. I assume some link found from the search (but not from page one from the looks of it) installed the xxx toolbar and search tool among other things. I also noticed that he made a search for some model (Jeanette Rundgren, apparently she’s Swedish, how quaint) the day or two before.

So firstly how weird is the whole Girls of Home Depot thing? I mean of all of the nasty nasty images/videos at your disposal on the internet, why on Earth would you think, “Girls of Home Depot, now that’s hot, I gotta find me somma that.”? But I guess to each his own, so it’s laughable but not really something one can claim to be able to judge as inferior to one’s own tastes, because it is a question of just that, taste. But GRRLLLS OF H0/\/\3 d3p0t?????

But also it makes me wonder: is this guy jagging off at the office before anyone else gets in? I mean why else would you be looking up Swedish women or gals in retail? Excuse me reTAIL. I guess it could be a jolt, like a cup of coffee is for the status quo. But then, what kind of perv needs to get his peep on before he can do anything in the morning? Ugh all this is giving me a headache, especially when I consider what may be the most pressing issue arising from this whole deally: I’m this man’s superior. Knowing what I know, wouldn’t a person in my position have to at least bring this up to his higher ups? Or do I confront him about it? But then what would I say? “Hey please stop looking up pron-like images at work?” I mean don’t people already know they ain’t supposed to do that already? I assume, that he would, of course, deny that it was he that did the search, but as there’s only myself and our idiot accountant in the office this week, it pretty much has to have been him. The accountant doesn’t know how to use the google searchbar, I don’t think. Also he has his own computer in his own office, so one would assume that if he wanted to do some ogling he would do so where no one else could reasonably be assumed to disturb him. Whatever at this point I’m just rambling. The assistant’s been really bugging me with his lack of brains re: doing tasks he’s supposed to do so I was already contemplating asking the boss to fire him, this now seems like a good excuse to do it sooner rather than later. But on the other hand the thought of being the impetus for someone to lose their job doesn’t sit well with me either. Stay tuned kids, if anything transpires of this I’ll be sure to update.