The SEC Employees Watching Porn At Work Were Making Over $200,000/Year

Business Insider ^ | March 14, 2011 | Courtney Comstock

[detective]

Last year, an investigation revealed that there were 24 SEC employees and 7 employees who had been contracted by the SEC who were caught watching porn on work computers (one of whom admitted doing it for 8 hours per day). Now Denver lawyer Kevin Evans's letter requesting that the SEC release their names (the SEC refuses) via the FOIA has more details on the employees: 1.The locations the employees worked at were: Atlanta; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Fort Worth, Texas; Los Angeles; and Washington, D.C.

[detective]

They are employed by the federal government. They were watching porn on the job for up to 8 hours per day every day. They were making over $200,000 per year plus benefits. None have been fired only "disciplined".

I wonder if the "discipline" included a bare bottomed spanking.

[Darksheare]

“Discipline” -they were forced to watch Pelosi sing “Happy birthday misther president” while doing a strip tease, their eyes taped open like that scene from A Clockwork Orange.

[Doogle]

were...so we’re told

[marron]

Dang. Are they hiring?

[ConservaTexan]

ACORN, Planned Parenthood, NPR, PBS, SEC...

Can someone please explain to me why congress is having such a hard time cutting money from the federal budget?

[Cicero]

I suppose they consider the porn industry to be a major part of the economy, and they were just trying to help it thrive. < /s >

[RC one]

that’s what I have been wondering. I think they missed the message.

[stockpirate]

I wonder how much of the porn was gay-homo porn??

[swarthyguy]

A heretofore unknown perk of the “stimulus” package!

[Revolting cat!]

This thread need pictures.

[FrankR]

[a fool in paradise]

How much were they earning when you add in pension and benefits?

[JoeProBono]

[B4Ranch]

>>I wonder how much of the porn was gay-homo porn??<<

BINGO! WE NOW UNDERSTAND WHY NOBODY WAS FIRED!

[Clintonfatigued]

This is how our tax dollars are being spent. Appalling.

[bwc2221]

The wild thing is that no one was fired.

[Always Independent]

What gets me is these types of sites can be blocked by any competent IT group. The pubs should be asking why isn’t this being done?

[pepsionice]

It is amazing. Within the Air Force...it would have taken 90 days to prepare a case and go into a court martial....and you’d been given a dishonorable one. They’d have all the proof necessary and you’d be standing there with no excuses.

[freekitty]

A public employee making 200,000 a year is pretty close to porn. What were they showing? A training film?

[Starboard]

“None have been fired only “disciplined”.”

It is nearly impossible to fire a federal employee. You would not believe what they can get away with. I’ve seen cases of drug usage, theft, insubordination, and sleeping on the job. Nobody was fired.