In February the Poop reported that SEC staff were often using their government computers, at their government jobs, to search for porn, often excessively.
A recent investigation found 31 serious offenders over the past two and a half years. Seventeen of the offenders were senior SEC officers with salaries ranging from $100,000 to $222,000 per year.
One senior attorney at SEC headquarters in Washington spent up to eight hours a day accessing Internet porn. When he filled all the space on his government computer with pornographic images, he downloaded more to CDs and DVDs that accumulated in boxes in his offices.
An SEC accountant attempted to access porn websites 1,800 times in a two-week period and had 600 pornographic images on her computer hard drive. Yes, that said "her," even a female was involved in this.
Note: that might seem hard to believe but Master Bates reports (though doesn't remember) a secretary at his office was once caught visiting the website bigblackroosters.com (that might not have been the exact URL
Another SEC accountant attempted to access porn sites 16,000 times in a single month.
In one case, the report said, an employee tried hundreds of times to access pornographic sites and was denied access. When he used a flash drive, he successfully bypassed the filter to visit a "significant number" of porn sites.
The employee also said he deliberately disabled a filter in Google to access inappropriate sites. After management informed him that he would lose his job, the employee resigned.
Ironically, the report says most of these cases began in 2008, just as the financial system began to collapse. The same SEC officers who should have been safeguarding the economy were instead spending their working hours surfing the Internet for pornography, and the problem hasn't stopped.
The most recent case cited in the report is from just four weeks ago.
How did they determine those stats? 16,000/20 (actual work days) is 800. So that dude visited 800 sites, or at least made 800 attempts each work day? That seems totally improbable.
ReplyDeleteThey're douche bags for ignoring their responsibility, I just think the math isn't accurate.
In this day and age, I don't understand how anyone could be so stupid as to try to access pornsites at work (firewalls, website tracking etc).
ReplyDeleteThat's what iPhones are for, duh.
Oh, and also --- looking at porn at work is wrong. Tsk tsk, you pervs.
It does seem impossibly high but I think they consider every click an "attempt".
ReplyDeleteSo let's say he goes to a site that has a bunch of thumbnails, and he clicks on all of them to see the images larger, I think each click is considered an attempt.
I also can't believe people would try this at work. And for 8 hours a day?
I think the bigger problem is these people weren't getting any work done. If he wants to use his lunch break to wack off that should be his business so long as he's productive for the rest of his work day.