Feds Spend As Many As 8 Hours A Week Looking At Porn On Your Dime

Citing "boredom" as the main reason for this phenomenon, it appears as if many federal workers, particularly those working for the Federal Communications Commission, spend hours a week looking at porn while they're supposed to be working. 

Looking at porn at work isn't new (our traffic drops on the weekends, so we know what's up), but hearing that federal workers are spending their time looking at porn while collecting a paycheck from hard working taxpayers has some up in arms. According to The Washington Times (link below), lack of work is the main reason cited for this increase in porn watching.

Lack of work has emerged time and again in federal investigations, and it’s not just porn, nor is it confined to the FCC. Across government, employees caught wasting time at work say they simply didn’t have enough work to do, according to investigation records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

Everybody hates that Freedom of Information Act until it leads to revelations like this one.

In another recent case, a GSA (ed. General Services Administration) employee who spent about two hours a day on a computer looking at pornography and dating sites “sometimes became bored during these long hours at the computer and would often use the computer for personal use to pass the time,” according to a case report by the GSA inspector general last year.

In a more recent and far more costly example, U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board paralegals received salaries and bonuses for years even though they spent much of their time watching television, shopping online, exercising and wasting time on their tablet computers, according to an investigation released this week by the Commerce Department’s inspector general. Investigators estimate that more than $4 million was spent paying employees for time they weren’t working.

What would Ronald Reagan have to say about this?

Via The Washington Times