Cash money for not being able to wait until you get home sounds like a pretty perfect payday …

The idea of having a career is universal, often with someone tackling a full 8 hours of uninterrupted tasks with a few personal breaks peppered in so as not to overexert one’s mind or body. Employees might put on their athletic shoes and go for walks to get a bit of exercise during their 15-minute breaks. Others go home to let the dogs out to fill a lunch hour. Some, well some watch hardcore porn to take the edge off.

And as it stands, a habit like that might not technically be a fireable offense.

The advent of the Internet has made it far easier for someone to watch porn than what was possible anytime before the ‘90s — we know this. Because of it, places of business have had to adjust their policies, often writing in employee handbooks about the difference between “acceptable” practices and “absolutely not” practices. If they’re smart, businesses will write in specific guidelines about watching porn on the clock.

Yet, for one former insurance manager in New South Wales, Australia (who was canned for ‘watching too much porn’ at work), he used the employee handbook in his favor when he sued his employer for unfair dismissal, or claims The Sydney Morning Herald.

The unnamed manager claims he was fired after higher-ups found hardcore pornography on a work issued laptop. He had been written up for the offenses before, but argues that he downloaded and viewed his particular vices when he was off the clock.

Commissioner (which is like a judge, only down under) Ian Cambridge agreed with the employer that using work-related equipment to view and download adult things generally constitutes a misconduct in the workplace, however, Smarter Insurance Brokers had no stipulation in the handbook that detailed what could and could not be stored on company equipment.

The former employee was then granted AUS $10k  (about $7,500 U.S. dollars) for his wrongful termination.

Of course, laws are different in pretty much every square foot of the world, so don’t take this one story as a means to go out and download what you do for the hell of it. Especially in America, each state has its own particular set of rules when it comes to downloading/watching porn on the clock.

Take this judge, for instance. Earlier this year, Warren Grant (along with two coworkers) was ousted from his position for viewing the naughty when he should have been serving fair and equitable justice.

The 61-year-old, much like our former insurance manager above, took his removal to court. He argued that his letting go was unlawful because of something to do with the Disability Discrimination Act — he argued that his mind wasn’t right because of a pending divorce with his estranged wife at the time.

Repeat: A judge told the courts he was crazy because his wife left him, which made 'his honor' thirsty for porn.

He lost. Of course.

The workforce around the world isn’t wrong when it argues there is entirely too much work going on and with too little free time in everyone’s lives. But before you go searching for 'library diddling Oregon campus' on YouPorn, or willingly giving over credit card information for celebrity sex tapes, understand that viewing habits like those are often offenses that can make a job go bye-bye. Which is an embarrassing way to go.

Unless you’re that lucky fucker in Australia — 7,000 bucks for not being able to wait until he got home sounds like a pretty perfect payday.