What’s the latest perk enjoyed by federal government
bureaucrats while on the job? It would appear to involve surfing for porn on the
Internet. Jim McElhatton of the Washington Times reports:
For one Federal Communications
Commission worker, his porn habit at work was easy to explain: Things were
slow, he told investigators, so he perused it “out of boredom” — for up to
eight hours each week.
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……One of the worst examples of that lack of effective
administrative oversight has become evident at the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as reported by Government Executive‘s
Charles S. Clark….[including] an allegation that Steven Williams of EPA’s
Office of Homeland Security in October 2013 committed an “assault” on Office of
the Inspector General special agent Elisabeth Heller Drake in an EPA hallway as
she sought to inform him of his obligation to remain silent…..The EPA, of
course, is the federal government agency that had to direct the employees at
its regional office in Denver, Colorado, to stop its employees from “placing feces in the hallway.”......To Read More.....
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