This happened about 6 years ago during a games conference event.
My boss and I were in an office/satellite farm in London where we took the raw video feeds from the conference in Germany and used our encoders to stream the event to various big game companies etc.
The event ran on long into the evening but everything went perfectly. Once it was finished my boss – MD of the company – asked me to copy the archive file to an external HDD he’d brought with him. I said ok sure, and plugged the drive-in while he went to the toilet. I dragged/dropped the archive file onto the drive but a dialogue box popped up with an error saying ‘source drive full’ or something. I click through to see if there was something easy for me to delete and to my great dismay, the whole 1TB drive is jam-packed full of adult vids. Stuff with names like teen’ and etc.
I sat there in silence thinking I have to somehow tell my boss I can’t copy the file to his “special” drive cos it’s too full of his special material. So at the last minute, I decided to feign ignorance and give him a plausible chance to save face. I close down the window and leave the room just as he comes back. He asks if I’ve copied the file and I say, no sorry, the disk is full. I’m going to see if I can find another disk to use. As I’m walking down the corridor I just hear him shout at the top of his lungs ‘AH F! THAT’S MY P!!’
He then calls me back in and tells me it’s for when he goes away on conferences and that he gets lonely and I was very much. Long story short, I deleted his “materials” and copied the file.
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Honestly bravo to the boss. He knew he got caught yet decided to full send into honesty instead of sneaking around it.
This is still funny though. Hopefully he has since discovered that most places, he can just go to a website instead of having it all downloaded.
Worked in I.T. doing backup before upgrading laptop to new ones for clients. Once i met a guy telling me he will do the backup himself to «have me not wasting too much of my time». I saw some of the names of files he was copying in the Windows popup… «girls gone wild…» yeah… very work oriented stuff.