Comments on: Government employees gamble, view porn online at work

By: Government employees underworked, overpaid | Homeland Stupidity

Government employees underworked, overpaid | Homeland Stupidity — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:31:32 +0000

[...] available to confirm this.And then there’s government employees spending their time goofing off. “Bureau of Labor Statistics data indeed shows that government workers work fewer hours in a [...]

By: Interior Department blocks access to blogs - Homeland Stupidity

Interior Department blocks access to blogs - Homeland Stupidity — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:59:38 +0000

[...] After an inspector general’s report earlier this month revealed Interior Department employees were wasting time at work on auction, gaming, pornography and online gambling sites, the department hastily implemented blocking — of blogs. [...]

By: Mr. Go

Mr. Go — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:11:46 +0000

You would have to be the most dimmest light bulb in the harbor to view porn at a workplace. Not to mention a low-life.

By: Oliver Crangle

Oliver Crangle — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 05:05:53 +0000

Well, I use a Mac so I don’t worry too much about spyware/viruses…

Realistically, I think it is asking too much to expect office workers with net access not to use it for non-office related stuff.

The real question is do these workers really need to be connected to the internet at all…
Can’t they just be connected through an intranet?

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:44:28 +0000

You must be kidding.

These activities are jeopardizing the security of those systems. When is the last time you went to some gambling website and didn’t get a virus or some spyware for your trouble?

Besides, your typical office drone isn’t being paid from ~~blood~~ tax money.

By: Oliver Crangle

Oliver Crangle — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:58:57 +0000

“auditors found that thousands of DOI employees routinely goof off at work, spending as much as 14 hours a week playing online games, or an hour browsing pornography”

This actually might not be that bad…
Say they are goofing off for an hour each day during their lunch hour. That’s 5 hours per week right there that is on personal time, not tax payers. Then suppose another hour online spread out over the course of the rest of the work day- a few minutes here and there. That’s 10 ‘wasted’ hours a week. I would say that that is about average for a typical office drone and really isn’t all that bad.

By: Q

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:11:05 +0000

i’m sure the people who passed the vote against it do also.