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Microsoft sued by staff traumatized by child sex abuse vids stashed on OneDrive accounts

FuzzyWuzzys
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All well and good the management saying that counselling and such like is available but unless you've had to deal with material like that on a daily basis for months at a time, you have no concept of how it affects your state of mind. I can only imagine it's like being constantly hit in the head, you become numb to it but it doesn't stop the long term damage from building up over time. My understanding is that the Police and NSPCC workers have to have special training first, then constant assessment and counselling throughout the work they do, then they have downtime at the end of assignments to allow them to help cope with what they've dealt with. You cannot expose people to horrific images and expect them to just talk to a psychologist for an hour and everything's hunky-dory.

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