Posted on 09/24/2014 4:41:38 AM PDT by markomalley
In May, the Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general disclosed that a senior-level employee was caught spending as much as six hours of his day looking at porn. The IG found that the employee had downloaded and viewed more than 7,000 pornographic files. The Justice Department is investigating further for possible prosecution.
Four months later, the employee has not been fired and is still collecting government pay, Environment & Energy Publishing reported last week.
That prompted Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) to introduce a bill the day Congress left town to make it a uniform federal government law that employees cannot look at porn at work.
Many agencies, including the EPA, have such rules, but Meadows says they are not enforced. EPA’s spokeswoman Liz Purchia confirmed that the porn-watching employee is still employed but on leave, but could not comment further because of the ongoing investigation.
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I have it on good authority that the guys can’t sit there watching porn all day without having to “relieve the tension” in the proximate time frame.
THAT they can be fired for, without any new law!
A 5 month investigation. Only in government. At what point do “investigations” morph into tacit approval?
I suspect this is the problem. In DoD this already "law", you are out the door within the week if you try this if you are GS, but if it were an SES civilian, that would not likely be the case. If you are military of any rank you will not be out the door. An SES (senior-executive service; e.g. civilian equivalent to one to three star general/flag officer) represents a multi-million dollar investment to the government, so they will often cut them some slack to avoid a total loss on their investment.
If the I.t. guys are not to busy looking for lost emails a few adjustments to the firewall/web filter will put an end to it
I work for the G: trust me, it’s better that we goof off all day than do the “work” which is generally harmful to the nation.
Why in hell aren’t these computers configured with software that blocks sites such as this and denied the ability to download files and stream video? That’s pretty basic IT stuff. Even the gov’t should be able to handle it...
This man needs to be stopped. If federal workers are denied porn there is a measurable albeit slight chance some of them might actually start doing what they were hired to do and then our last precious vestige of freedom will be gone.
Exactly! This is ridiculous. First offense - warning. Second offense - fire them. Also, I was wondering why their IT people can't block viewing of porn sites - but then I remembered that this is the same government that didn't get the Obamacare websites to work.
My thoughts too when I read this.’
So Gov workers now sit around watching porn and we pay for this crap.
Look for the union label.
These geniuses at the government have never heard of filtering or blocking web sites?
I have a better idea, a law that bans public sector unions!
No more government unions = no more slugs watching porn all day.
5 months in government would be fast. Particularly if the guy gets the Union involved.
There was a similar situation I know about, guy got caught with massive amounts of porn on his gvt PC. He’s sent out on adminitrative (paid) leave, but fights tooth and nail every step of the way, with full support and encouragement of the Union.
Two years later he finally exhausts all of his appeals and is fired. But then there’s a POST firing appeals process. He manages to get the firing overtuned and is set for reinstatement.
The Gvt decides to cut it’s losses. The guy passed his 20 year mark while on Administrative leave so they cut a deal that has him reinstated for a day or two so he can formally retire. With pension, lifetime gvt healthcare, other benefits.
You forgot the 2 years back pay he would get when the firing was overturned, including pay for lost overtime, bonuses etc.
“Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I’ve worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time.”
Too busy losing emails.
A bill will surely emerge from committee limiting Federal employees to watching two hours of porn per day.
I have to allow FR and other sites in our internet filter at work, how exactly is porn getting through?
There are sooooooooo many degenerate slackers “working” for the government. Fire them all...and exile them so they can’t draw benefits/entitlements. That doesn’t sound too extreme.
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