SEC employees investing time in porn viewing

An internal SEC investigation discovered 33 employees – 17 of them senior staff earning up to US$220,000 a year – had watched porn on government computers over the past five years:

The report said a senior enforcement attorney in a regional office viewed porn during work hours and had a thumb drive containing five hard-core videos; an attorney in Washington, D.C., spent up to eight hours a day watching pornography; and an accountant in a regional office was denied access by the government firewall 16,000 times when he tried to access Web pages containing pornography.

Not all on the job time-wasting is spent watching pornography, however, with the Internet offering an almost infinite variety of online distractions. Every large organization must have its fair share of eBay wheeler-dealers, game players, online chatters, bloggers and the like. Then there are those who waste time officially by habitually sending irrelevant emails – people who in the past would never have taken the time to construct memos are now able to dash off emails of no importance whatsoever, typically sending them to everyone within an organisation. Recipients must at least scan these emails to make sure they contain nothing important before disposing of them. Multiply the few minutes spent every day dealing with this trivia and multiply it times the number of employees in the organisation and you'll get a huge block of time wasted.

Okay, now that I've had my little rant for today it's back to eBay for me.