Do You Watch Porn at Work?
If your answer to that question is "yes", you probably work for the federal government. If your answer is "yes, but the OIG has been seriously cramping my style", you work for the EPA. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently completed an investigation into what has been going on at the EPA in the wake of John Beale bilking the taxpayers of nearly $1,000,000 in pay and bonuses (that story is all kinds of ridiculous if you're not familiar with it), and their findings are insane. Let's start with the "ugly" from the OIG's report:
due diligence with respect to the authorization and approval of Mr. Beale’s time-and-attendance records, travel authorizations and travel vouchers.First, the OIG investigated an allegation of serious employee misconduct by an EPA senior executive alleged to have been directly involved in approving fraudulent time-and-attendance records and travel vouchers for Mr. Beale. Our investigation indicated that the senior executive approved, or authorized the approval of, fraudulent time-and-attendance records and travel vouchers for Mr. Beale from 2000 through 2010. Our investigation was able to substantiate that this senior executive did not exerciseThe senior executive allowed Mr. Beale to carry out—unchecked—extensive time-and-attendance and travel voucher fraud. The investigation also revealed that the senior executive did not exercise due diligence, in part because she believed, she said, that Mr. Beale worked for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Wow. Okay, so, maybe this particular senior executive was particularly gullible. Maybe the spectre of CIA involvement sufficiently freaked her out after watching the Bourne series a few too many times. Personally, I'd feel better if this were an isolated incident, but as you all can surely guess, it's not:
[A]nother EPA manager allowed an employee to stay at home and not report for duty for several years. Based on a long-standing arrangement with the employee (which allegedly began as an accommodation to work at home due to a medical condition), this EPA manager not only entered fraudulent time-and-attendance records for the absent employee but also approved the same fraudulent records. It is estimated that the manager’s approval of fraudulent time-and-attendance records cost the government more than $500,000. Even more egregious is that this EPA manager authored and approved exemplary performance appraisals that resulted in a cash award for the absent employee.
How did your bonus look this year? If you showed up, this person has you beat. Amazing, right? Now, the report doesn't mention this person's work product. Perhaps they were nominally productive, allowing for a little spat of denial from the manager. We all have friends who work from home and they manage to get things done - it's not completely out of the question. Well, as it turns out, that wasn't exactly the case:
During the same investigation, the OIG also found evidence that implicated a senior executive. This senior executive, who was the absent employee’s prior supervisor, remained aware that the employee had been teleworking for more than 20 years with very little substantive work product to show during this time.
Pretty egrigious, right? So, just like in the actual report, I've provided you with the "ugly" first. Now, let's take a look at the "bad":
One such investigation involves a career EPA employee who allegedly stored pornographic materials on an EPA network server shared by colleagues. When an OIG special agent arrived at this employee’s work space to conduct an interview, the special agent witnessed the employee actively viewing pornography on his government-issued computer. Subsequently, the employee confessed to spending, on average, between two and six hours per day viewing pornography while at work. The OIG’s investigation determined that the employee downloaded and viewed more than 7,000 pornographic files during duty hours.
After hearing about all the people who aren't even showing up for work but are drawing a salary, you might be tempted to say, "well, at least the guy is putting in a couple hours a day of work inbetween fap sessions." Doing work > not doing work, right? Well, funny thing, guess who is getting prosecuted? Porno guy.
So, fellow monkeys, what do you think about all this? Did you pick the wrong employer? How many hours of porn could you watch before you got fired? Me, probably 0.000001 hours.
HAHAHAHAHA, This is pure gold!
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^^This guy is still employed
Was he doing it on purpose with the look back? haha
If you were looking at nudes of Miranda while you at work, and you happened to get caught on national TV doing it, would you purposefully show your face to the camera?
But apparently this guy got set up by a colleague. Pretty ballsy prank..
I like that he kept doing it while talking to someone else too. Not even embarrassed to hide it when conversing with someone else.
Does anyone know what technicals they ask in the EPA interviews? Just want to make sure i nail it.
I would say I'm surprised but I'm not at all...government is so useless.
6 hours a day? Fucking hell. Maybe get a girlfriend?
i might be alone in this line of thinking but someone who willingly works for the EPA and has a brain that can rationalize watching pr0n 6 hours a day at work doesnt strike me a real lady killer.
I still cant tell if that guy is the ultimate troll or the guy who worked from home for 20 years with no output is the real king though.
Yeah I almost wrote that but I had a moment (the shortest moment) of compassion. I seriously doubt the guy could even walk up to a girl, let alone snag anyone that could pull him away from Brazzers for even a couple hours a day.
Does softcore count as pr0n?
LOL. Simply amazing.
Wait, is the black kitten in the picture looking at the image of another pussy?
This blows especially since I'm guessing that EPA employees' salaries are our very own tax dollars hard at work. Makes me gag knowing full well what my FIT withholding is. I didn't sign up to work 100hr weeks and on top of that support these jerk**fs working from home. All puns intended.
From what i know from friends in Washington, its based on a grade scale from 1 to 15 and then tiered in 10 steps (i.e. you can be a G12 Step 8 and that implies you make more than a G12 Step 7) and inflated based on what area you work in. The G15 step 10 employee who couldnt actually complete any work was making upwards of about 150K not doing anything = winning
Nothing to see here, move along.
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