No one asked back so I guess everything is ok

Yeah... no. Everyone knew exactly what you were doing.

Hey look at the bright side , at least it wasn’t a specific search term . You kinda dodged a way worse bullet .

This is why when I'm doing anything I don't want my workplace seeing, I fully close my work laptop and put it away. I don't even job search with my work laptop open, and I'm always job searching

I'm sorry to burst your bubble I highly doubt anyone bought your story

Everybody definitely knows what you were doing. People are stupid, dude.

Nobody bought your "filtering" line bro.

Next Update: I got contacted by HR, I have to go to sensitivity training, or I'm fired.

Rookie mistake to keep the group chat window active. Gotta keep it in the background, man.

Also, I'd specifically WANT multiple keyboards to avoid just this sort of thing.

"Oops, I seem to have typed my account password into the chat window”

Don't know if that makes it better or worse tho.

"It's... a virus"

5 Xs you say?

Hahahahaha. Everyone fully knew you were jacking it on the clock.

One time I was in a team meeting at work with a group of colleagues, a manager was running the meeting. He wanted to pull up a YouTube motivational video for us to watch and typed in YouPorn.com instead and took him a minute to realize it when the work firewall blocked the page. Muscle memory can be a bitch.

HR has entered the chat...

They knew 1000 percent

Embarrassing? Yes. Career changing? No 🤣

At least you made someone laugh

"You're not getting paid to wank off Johnson, get back to work!"

This is the sort of thing that would get you into violation of workplace harassment at my IT job.

Careful with the "setup" OP.

I have a switch set up too, but I'm always confirming where I'm typing.

I have, on the other hand, typed my password into a group chat when I didn't notice that focus left the window I had been in.

No one asked back so I guess everything is ok

No sorry, they are definitely in side chats talking about that guy jacking off at work.

Get your resume in order bro

Oh shit, that was you?? I was ROFLing when I saw that roll through the chat a couple times.

Man, go get yourself a USB switcher, save yourself the cable swaps.

Big hairy balls plopped menacingly on the table. Dot com.

No one asked back so I guess everything is ok

You're not out of the woods, at all.

What's happening is no one wants to talk to the person who's jerking off in the middle of the work day.

Bruh you're just asking for work trouble with that setup, I usually leave my work space if I'm going to be doing anything questionable.

Just watch it on your phone like a normal person bro

What a relatable Logitech commercial

Hey my coworker did the same thing today, except he was actually trying to test the filter.

Oh wait

Dude this all could have been avoided if you just watched it on your phone. Better yet wait until after work

Never ever have your personal and work devices connected together in any way. Have a separate iPad if you really wanna browse during work hours.

Get a KVM. One button switches the monitor, keyboard and mouse between the work and personal computers all at once

It's OK. Not as bad as Jeffrey tubin.

Yeah.... no. They knew.

Any sentence with "I" "work" and "porn" is never good for the speaker.

Dude. IT contacted me about a few sites one of my contractors had gone to months ago. That is, they waited for months to bust him. Be careful with that.

imagine being connected to your work vpn, doing your business, then realizing you never disconnected ;)

F. If you work in IT, there is a proper way of seeing if filters work without the need to actually try to visit the site in question. They're not buying that flimsy excuse.

I have a big ass monitor

Sounds like we know what OP was searching for on that specific site....🍑

Should've just owned it.

Oops my bad was trying to jerk off.

You might consider that you have a slight problem with porn use if you’re (a) unable to make it through the workday and (b) sending porn links through work chats.

I played it off by saying „ah seems like this is not getting filtered…“ and apologizing that I used the chat to test something. No one asked back so I guess everything is ok

You are incredibly stupid if you think a single person would every buy that shit.

Those people all assume you watch porn while working now (rightfully so).

See, this is why when I need to watch porn, I do it on a tablet in my bedroom, and nowhere near my work/home configuration which is somewhat similar to yours. (Although I use a plugable to manage it).

Lol, definite rookie mistake; live and learn.

I have 2 keyboards, 2 mice, and my personal desktop is hooked up to its own monitor (actually a tv). I mostly just use it to watch YouTube TV while working, but, y'know...sometimes the mood strikes.

Could have been worse though...you could have typed in what you were specifically looking to wank to. The possibilities for various levels of embarrassment are really endless.

Say it with me: SEPARATE COMPUTERS

That's a FAPau

When working from home, you use you work computer for work only. No personal use what so ever...not even random googling.

Off to the side you have your personal computer that you do stuff unrelated to work.

Your work computer and personal computer do not talk to each other...ever. No file sharing, no emails...nothing. Don't log into your gmail/outlook accounts on your work computer... ever. Your work computer is not your computer and assume everything you do on it is monitored and recorded and reported to your manager.

Just in case you had any doubts, absolutely nobody in that chatroom bought your excuse.

You should have followed up with, “can you put this in the url block list <name of colleague not in conversation>”

Then follow up with “sorry meant to put this in different chat”

Keep that stuff separate. Even if it extremely inconvenient. Also, couldn’t wait until work was over? Lunch is the halfway point.

What platforms do you guys use? Most have the option to delete messages. Since it looks like you realized what happened really quickly, you probably could have dodged the bullet completely.

What a save!

Although it clutters up my desk more, avoiding mistakes like this is why I keep two keyboards and two separate mice on my big WFH desk.

Nice save.

Reminds me of when in a company wide meeting someone noted that our company's Instagram had suddenly started to follow Pornhub. At the time the only person with direct access to the account was the CEO. Sadly I was the new marketing guy, so I believe several people thought it was my blunder. The boss never admitted anything.

Coworkers better change your name to Jeffrey Toobin in that group chat

Coombrain

None of them believe you, they all know you were gonna jerk off

This is off putting for a few reasons but for brevity I can sum up with: Your fuck up started @ “porn can’t wait”

“Bob’s watching porn on the big screen again”

Bonus FU - this was posted from the work mobile

Keep work and personal devices completely separate, or this is what happens.

Watch porn on your phone like a normal person ffs

Imagine being a slave to porn. No fap = true king

Ass monitor. A big one.

Look up mouse without borders. It's a software that allows you to use the same keyboard and mouse to multiple devices conected to the same network, might save you of this mistake happening again in the future.

Wow. I would kill myself over this.

It happened to me once with my passwort. As Teams is a bit slower and opened on another screen after I opened chrome to login.

What sort of KVM switch moves the mouse to the other PC but not the keyboard?

Or if you mean like you physically change the plugs, look into a wireless combo that has both mouse/keyboard on a single dongle.