Here’s another one to add to the “personal-responsibility-is-dead” file… According to this AP report, a former IBM employee is suing the company for $5 million claiming he is an Internet addict who deserves treatment and sympathy rather than dismissal. Better yet, in the court filing, the guy claims that stress caused him to become “a sex addict, and with the development of the Internet, an Internet addict.” He is also claiming that he’s protected by the American with Disabilities Act because he says he suffers from sexual behavior disorders !!
This clown gets caught using the Net during work hours to check out porn and now he wants to blame it all on (a) the existance of the Internet and (b) the company and society for not stopping him from indulging his desires. Give me a break. Maybe alcoholics can use this theory to sue booze stores as the cause of all their problems.
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