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Posted on 05/05/2015 4:30:25 AM PDT by markomalley
A Baltimore city employee has been fired after it was discovered that he had watched 39 hours of pornography on the job over a two-week period.
The worker was a maintenance supervisor with the Department of Public Works, and brought a DVD of pornography to work, the Baltimore Sun reports. One day that he was being monitored, he watched it for nearly seven hours of his workday, the inspector general tells the Sun.
The worker has not been identified. He worked at the facilities division of the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant, on Eastern Avenue, was suspended without pay last September and fired Jan. 20.
The inspector general’s report also indicates that the DVD was being watched in full-screen mode; officials thusly believe that the employee was doing little, if any, work while the DVD was playing. Inspector General Rob Pearre Jr. says that the unauthorized use of the computer is the real issue: “It would have been the same if he were watching sports on his computer for four out of eight hours a day,” Pearre said.
The investigation began after an anonymous complaint. The Sun says the worker’s pay for the two-week period was nearly $1,200. Pearre tells The Sun that the city hasn’t determined whether it’ll go to court to get that money back.
I’ll give him the benefit of a doubt.
Maybe he’s the municipal porn critic.
No doubt there’s a job in DC that would be a perfect fit for his talents.
I don’t know about this. On the one hand, the government employee was watching porn at work. On the other hand, that was potentially less harmful than government work. I suppose it depends on the job. We’d probably be better off if all Obama appointees watched porn instead of finding new ways to make citizens miserable.
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too many gubmint jobs fit that talent.....be it porn or whatever, many of these people do NOTHING but draw a paycheck and benefits. Never survive in the real world.....
Just watched it??? This is one story where I don't think we want more details.
Headline on Drudge right now...
“20.7% of Jobs in Baltimore Are Govt”
It was a sh***y job, anyway.
Did the person who monitored him for 39 hours also get in trouble? It’s a new IT sport, secretly remote to user desktops and watch them.
Also, his medical claim for carpal tunnel syndrome was denied.
Emulating that guy at agonybooth.com?
39 hours?!? I wonder if they even heard there was a riot?
I guess after a while they couldn't deny something was going on there.
The real problem incidents like this expose is not that, during the 39 of 80 hours for which this guy was paid for not doing any work, but instead that he and millions of other government workers at all governmental levels don’t really have any work to do. Their primary function is to deposit their fat paychecks and vote for Democrats.
I’ve always believed that we could government payrolls in half and still have all of the important government functions (and most of the silly ones) performed as well or better than we see today.
I tried to tell you Baltimore City needed more federal funding. In better budget times, he would have been approved for 10 hours of overtime.
Second, if he was only watching porn 37 of the 40 hours he was "on the job" that week, he is well under the union's threshold, which permits "viewing, observing, or participating in pornographic activities no more than 8.5 hours for each day worked," according to the latest contract.
Third, if the pornography was homosexual in nature or involved Democrats (but I repeat myself), then it could be considered a documentary, and thus, a learning experience. The employee may have simply been trying to better himself. He certainly shouldn't be punished for that.
Well now that he’s available maybe he can get a job with allstate insurace. You know, the “good hands” people.
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Won’t be long, if it hasn’t been claimed already, that porn watching is a disability, and you can’t fire an employee for it.
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