"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.
"But there's a bright side to this. While they're surfing for porn or shopping online etc, they're NOT plotting against us. Not auditing our taxes, not working to shut down power plants, not investigating churches, devising unworkable health care ideas, not harassing landowners over swampy places on their farms, ..... you get the idea. At least they're only wasting the money spent on their salaries and not making life worse for others. "
This is why we need an ever growing, all consuming US Gubment?! I'm half surprised the investigators could find time to conduct the investigations, I wonder if the Gubment contracts out the investigations.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
I have a couple of govt employee friends who say the same thing. There isn't enough to do, but they don't want to quit because of the retirement plan. These guys don't surf porn, but they basically have to find something to do to fill their 8 hr shift. When they have brought it up to their superiors, they are told to just deal with it.
Too bad future generations aren't here to see all the great things we are spending their $$ on!!
And if this was private industry, they would trim the deadwood, and those managers would get bonuses. But in government, the more money you spend the better.
The US Forest Service has a wellness program where employees get five paid hours a week to do healthy things. Most just take off early on Friday.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
FredHayek wrote: The US Forest Service has a wellness program where employees get five paid hours a week to do healthy things...
"Ok, so it looked like I was just 'jacking my own lumber' at my desk when you stopped by but in reality I was engaged in a high intensity cardio workout that also has some prostate benefits; I'm all about employee wellness. Since you're here, who can I talk to about repetitive motion injuries incurred on the job? I'm gonna get paid..."
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
"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."
Obviously the solution is to make government even bigger and increase budgets automatically every year.
Carry on!
-Loyal subject and happy taxpayer Forest Gump.
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