National Science Foundation Employees Jerking It on the Job

A federal government agency, the National Science Foundation, which receives 6 billion bucks annually in tax payer funding to help fund whackjobs who think CO2 is killing polar bears, allows its employees to work from the office without requiring them to wear their pants.  In fact, several of the employees often jerk it while at the desk and complain to the IT staff about having sticky keyboards and slow web cams.

From the Politico here:

A report that says NSF employees have been spending significant amounts of company time on smut sites and in other explicit pursuits. The employees in question weren’t just logging onto their Facebook accounts or buying birthday gifts on Amazon.com. The report says they were watching, downloading and e-mailing porn, sometimes for significant portions of their workdays, and over periods of months or even years.

One NSF “senior official” was discovered to have spent as much as 20 percent of his working hours over a two-year interval “viewing sexually explicit images and engaging in sexually explicit online ‘chats’ with various women.”

The value of the time lost was more than $58,000 — for that employee alone. A single internal server showed workers harboring everything from software that can allow users to set up camera-to-camera connections to hard-core images and titillatingly titled bookmarks.

One employee even had camera-to-camera software to facilitate his on-the-job sexcapades – and that the employee had complained to the IT specialist that his camera was working too slowly.

If you think this is happening at just one government agency you would be wrong.  I have heard about the same thing happening at other Federal departments.  While at the cybercrime convention this week, several senior IT persons complained that they cannot filter pornographic traffic because in some cases, the Federal Government Employees union won’t allow filters on network traffic.  I had no idea that they even had a say in the matter.

This is why employees who are caught spanking their meat at the NSF and other government agencies aren’t fired or even forced to undergo sexual harassment training.  Yet these same government agencies can mandate such foolish guidelines and training for the rest of us.