CIO - If you're a fan of Saturday Night Live, you've probably seen the sketch, "Dick in a Box," featuring comedian Andy Samberg and singer Justin Timberlake. It's a spoof on a music video for an R&B love song about a man who is so serious about his girlfriend that he wants to give her a very special gift: his privates in a box. (The video is not explicit.)
"Dick in a Box" is one of several racy mock music videos by Samberg and Timberlake that have taken the Web by storm. Other titles include "Mother Lover" (about Oedipal relationships) and "Jizz in My Pants," which shouldn't require any explanation. Are they funny? If you like that sort of thing. Are they appropriate for work? Absolutely not.
Yet the outrageous nature of the videos did not stop some employees at a high-tech company from making them the topic of conversation or from showing them to each other on their iPhones at work. They didn't see anything wrong with it, especially since they were using their personal iPhones to watch the videos, as opposed to their work computers. However, when managers caught wind of the content, they hired an HR training firm, ELT, to explain that the content was inappropriate for work, and that it didn't matter employees used their personal iPhones to share the videos.
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