ok here is what has happend to me in the last few days and I want to know if I in anyway broke the law or are grounds for Termination.
I work at my highshool as an IT guy, I am smarter and know more about the school network then anyone includeing my bosses. I however had a case of badjudgement when in a class I was browseing the file Server which is open to public access (There is no Password needed and the security setting is not restricted.) I found a paper on the Server that had all the answers to my current assignment. I took the paper and "Slightly Modifed some answers on it" and turned it in. I was caught for cheating which I can understand. It was a extremely badjudgement to plagerise. I was given a Saterday school so I thought that would be the end of it. However later in the day I was called to the office and there I see my boss with a pissed off look and I am wondering what did I do ? I was fired from my job on the spot for missuesing the school network and my accounnt (not administor or anything just a basic citrix acount I got onto the fileserver with was taken away) This preventing me from being able to compleate school work. I was told that I was fired because I missuesd the school network. I do not belive that I missued the network The information was on a public server into witch means all information on it is "Open to the knowledge or judgment of all" do you think that since i cheated in school I should be penilized. ? I am going to tell you everything I just said maybe confuseing so I am going to add in a letter after the fact I sent to my Ex-boss.
To Whom It May Concern:
When you first hired me for the school, I felt privileged, privileged for a chance to apply the skills that teachers, mentors, and well just the internet taught me. I know that highschool is made to prepare you for the real world and I do see a sort of mini society inside it. People continue on with their lives, they learn, they are taught and of course educated; At least that’s supposed to be the idea. Everyday you learn something new, whether it be in highschool or everyday life. I don’t feel as if I should tell you what I learn day by day, but I thought someone might be interested in hearing this. If one is accused of something don’t you think there should just be more than accusations that back up ones decisions? I know I cheated, but that was during school and for a class.
I, in no way abused the privileges that were given to me through my job to benefit my schoolwork. The file server that I found the documents on was in fact a public file server. Public is defined as “Open to the knowledge or judgment of all.” If they were somewhere else, say somewhere that only a person with my job would have access too then I would understand your concerns, but you just as well as every other student in this school had access to the files concerned. When you interviewed me you asked what I thought about trustworthiness, well to fire someone based on speculation and hearsay doesn’t exactly define what I would want an employer later on in life to abide and follow by. If anyone has answered what can be defined as trustworthiness it has been you with this latest incident. I was told upon my termination that I had other accounts of me committing malicious acts or wrong doings which was also weighted in your decision to let me go. If this is true, under the Freedom of Information Act passed by congress in 1966 I am to be given access to view these statements and amend them at my disgression if they are considered inaccurate or inconclusive in any way. High school has taught me a lot lately, but so has the internet, with this I’ll close the letter asking you if the power of one person can influence someone to make rash decisions, then what about the power of many?
then a list of 50 signitures that agreed with my view point that school should be in no way related to work.
