IT employees do the right thing, then get fired
Please note, I said " then", not " and." There's some litigation and undisclosed actions going on here, so let's go to the source (found via "Blow the Whistle, Lose Your Job?" on slashdot).
Short story: 2 IT workers for an outsourced help desk see child porn on a tenured professor's computer. They disclose it to their superiors, who then work with the college and the local police. The professor resigns, gets arrested, charged, found guilty, and is now awaiting sentencing. Some time after the workers make their disclosure, they are fired for "unrelated reasons."
So, were they fired for embarrassing their employer's client? Or for actual "unrelated reasons?"
(I feel like saying "This is Rumor Control, here are the facts!")
- Bob Evans' column "Business Technology: Right Is Right, So Let's Make It Unequivocal" (May 5, 2003)
- "Response From Collegis CEO Tom Huber" (May 8, 2003)
- John Foley's article (all the details are here) "Troubling Discovery" (May 12, 2003)
- "Reporters' Notebook" (May 12, 2003)