Workers on Porn Detail Sue Microsoft for Injuries

Courthouse News ^ | January 10, 2017 | By JUNE WILLIAMS

[Swordmaker]

pinging for Microsoft interest maybe. . . not really Windows.

[pepsionice]

In this case, I don’t see what the heck a wellness program would accomplish. Looks like some marginal HR gimmick. I think Microsoft will lose on this case.

[cynwoody]

I'm no fan of MSFT (although the Surface Studio is a nice machine — especially its aspect ratio — and especially if it runs Linux well).

However, in this case, the verdict should go against the plaintiffs, and they should be ordered to reimburse MSFT for its costs defending against their suit. Their case is obviously absurd.

[Jonty30]

I would not want that job for the world.

[goldbux]

Hope yer feeling better.

[stormhill]

As a young kid I watched “Deliverance” and felt traumatized for months afterward. Shame it didn’t occur to me suing Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight...

[alexander_busek]

What I'd like to know is: How does a company (like Microsoft) get a dispensation for possessing and distributing (allowing / requiring employees to view) child pornography?

In other words: Couldn't every perv who was arrested simply claim, "I am a one-man company, and was subjecting myself to a training program on the evils of porn?"

Regards,

[MPJackal]

I don’t know. Started in 2008. Had to work it for 1 1/2 years but stayed for 8. Then suffered PTSD? Why stay in the job for 6 1/2 extra years? Why not quit?

[dp0622]

I saw a guy’s head pop under a bus wheel in Manhattan.

And worse things.

You all have seen terrible things in your lives. We all have.

You feel bad and then you move on.

Who did the WWI, WWII, Korean, Vietnam, Gulf, Afghani and Iraq war veterans get to sue?

And I’m SURE they saw much worse than these guys did.

[b4me]

“and were not allowed to turn down the assignment.”

LIE!
they could have quit and found other work. I highly doubt microsoft forced them to work against their will never letting them stop. They chose to show up for work each day. They chose the job each and every day.

[Robert DeLong]

Unless they have documented their attempts to seek counseling or something else, my feeling is that they have no leg to stand on in the legal sense. If they could not handle it, then they should have quit. Unless they can prove that they were forced to continue doing that job.

[Swordmaker]

What I'd like to know is: How does a company (like Microsoft) get a dispensation for possessing and distributing (allowing / requiring employees to view) child pornography?

Maybe every shift they fly them by helicopter to the SS Microsoft anchored in International waters where they sit in dark booths and comb through Bing photos and videos posted by people to see what's OK and what's not OK.

MINDNUMBING! But somebody's gotta do it to prevent MS from possessing and distributing kiddie porn on and from their servers. I don't quite see how a computer could do that discrimination.

[Swordmaker]

In this case, I don’t see what the heck a wellness program would accomplish. Looks like some marginal HR gimmick. I think Microsoft will lose on this case.

I think the employees' only real avenue of relief, because they're claiming mental health damage, is filing workers compensation claims for PTSD and stress.

[ex91B10]

I’d like to know what the hell this “online safety” program is...is MS now policing the internet?

[PghBaldy]

I walked in on a family member forcing himself on another family member, when I was 11. I stopped the assault, though. It has haunted me for decades.

[Nifster]

Good.

I hope they win

[Fresh Wind]

You would think they could easily find people who would enjoy that job and would even do it for free.

[Fantasywriter]

Idk how easy it would be. This is not XXX porn. These are snuff flicks, some featuring children. It takes a special kind of sociopathic person to enjoy Sadism to this extent.

[Fresh Wind]

There are lots of sick people in this world.