HR: Banker faces disciplinary action after opening e-mail in public
A banker at Australia's Macquarie Bank in Sydney faces disciplinary action after he opened attachments to an e-mail.
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The attachments were not, as widely reported, "nude" photographs of model Miranda Kerr.
The circumstances were simple: Channel 7 was interviewing Martin Lakos from Macquarie Private Bank as people were drifting into work. As some wandered around with cups of coffee, one chap opened his mail and opened the attachments.
In truth, the photographs are nothing more than would appear in many women's fashion magazines.
But the problem for the banker is that they were clearly visible on his screen just to one side of the interviewee.
The bank says that it has re-distributed its internet policy to its global workforce.
But whilst one can argue that the chap should not have opened the pictures after the first one, in truth, he has done nothing wrong. He did not surf for the images, he simply opened attachments to an e-mail; it was just bad luck that there was a camera - and several million viewers - looking over his shoulder.
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