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22 Jun 2006
Fourteen staff at the UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in Swansea have been sacked for distributing hardcore pornographic images.
The workers were fired following a three-month inquiry, in which a further 101 employees were disciplined by managers.
The DVLA stated that the sacked workers had used the organisation's computer systems to send pornographic images out of the building, which broke the agency's code of conduct.
An employee told a local newspaper that a lot of staff were unhappy at receiving the images on their machines. "It is everywhere, it is hardcore and very offensive," the employee said.
The agency had previously sacked a 24 year-old female employee after she filmed herself on a mobile phone having sex and sent the clip to 300 DVLA staff.
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dear susie
I was upset to read the comments made by susie over the Dvla porn scandal. I know she has a right to voice her own opinon but READ the facts before making a judement on the 14 people that were sacked from the DVLA. Firstly there were over 100 people on charges and only 14 got sacked. should'nt that raise a questiopn in that minute brain of yours? second only 1 executive officer was dismissed! surely out of 100+ staff on charges there was more management involved. There are many questions to be answered before judging these people, and as for questioning peoples I.Q, I suggest you take a good hard look at yourselve!!
Posted by: Patel 21 Jul 2006
Goodbye & Good riddance ...
If these sad little sicko's never get another job it'll be entirely thier own fault - what were they thinking???? It's bad enough to receive upsetting and offensive porn emails from spammers without having to put up with receiving it from colleagues as well. I wonder if they had the IQ to realise how likely it was that hard core porn involved abuse against at least SOME of the participants, if not all of them ... probably not, since they seem to have been so stupid it didn't occur to them they'd get sacked. The DVLA has gone up in my estimation since it took this seriously enough to weed out & rid itself of these perverted little creeps.
Posted by: Susie 22 Jun 2006