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The Untouchables: Government Employee Can't Be Fired Despite Watching 6 Hours Of Porn A Day At Work
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
At the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), red tape is preventing the removal of a top level employee accused of viewing porn two to six hours a day while at work, since 2010. Even though investigators found 7,000 pornographic files on his computer and even caught him watching porn, he remains on the payroll.
Five years ago, the General Services Administration (GSA) spent more than $800,000 on a lavish conference in Las Vegas. They were served 1,000 sushi rolls costing $7 each and a clown and mind reader were hired for entertainment. Two managers were initially fired but got their jobs back after the MSPB reversed the decision.
The GSA was ordered to “cancel the appellants removals” and give them back pay plus interest. Meanwhile, the organizer of the convention was never technically fired. He was allowed to retire.
From the CBS News article: Red Tape Keeps Some Bad Gov’t Workers From Being Fired
It was just brought to my attention that prosecutors in the General David Petraeus case are suggesting two years probation and a $40,000 fine, rather than the one-year prison sentence his misdemeanor charge carries. If it were you or I, and the government didn’t like our political activities, the feds would undoubtably try to put us in a cage for as long as possible. Must be nice to be an oligarch. After all, insiders don’t jail other insiders. This is not a free country.
It’s not just Petraeus and other oligarchs either. Status quo minions often also receive special treatment for their tireless service to the plutocracy. You know, such as watching six hours per day of porn on the job.
We learn from CBS News that:
In the private sector, if you’re caught viewing porn on company time or intimidating a co-worker, you’d probably be fired immediately; not so if you’re a federal employee.
A CBS News investigation looks at how hard it is for the U.S. government to discipline or fire employees who behave badly. With examples ranging from extravagant to explicit, civil service rules meant to protect public workers from political pressure may be backfiring, and costing you big, reports CBS News correspondent Don Dahler.
At the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), red tape is preventing the removal of a top level employee accused of viewing porn two to six hours a day while at work, since 2010. Even though investigators found 7,000 pornographic files on his computer and even caught him watching porn, he remains on the payroll.
At a Congressional hearing, EPA administrator Gina McCarthy was asked why she hadn’t fired the employee and said, “I actually have to work through the administrative process, as you know.”
He said those rules make it nearly impossible to fire poor performers or problematic employees, even when they’ve committed egregious violations.
A CBS News analysis of cases under review by the Merit System Protection Board (MSPB), an appeals board for federal workers, found other instances of employees who had committed seemingly fireable offenses who were later reinstated to their jobs, often with back pay and interest.
Five years ago, the General Services Administration (GSA) spent more than $800,000 on a lavish conference in Las Vegas. They were served 1,000 sushi rolls costing $7 each and a clown and mind reader were hired for entertainment. Two managers were initially fired but got their jobs back after the MSPB reversed the decision.
The GSA was ordered to “cancel the appellants removals” and give them back pay plus interest. Meanwhile, the organizer of the convention was never technically fired. He was allowed to retire.
Taking into consider administrative leave and the general costs of the procedure itself, Stier said, “There is no question that taxpayers are losing hundreds of millions of dollars, in a conservative estimate. They are losing more than that because they are losing the ability to get the very best out of government.”
Public service indeed.
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.Gov is doing so well that Congress will give them a 2-4% budget 'raise' next year.
Rim job / gov job, same thing
I hear the nsa building hq was shot at today
"And though the holes were rather small, they had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall" -- John Lennon
"viewing porn two to six hours a day while at work, since 2010"
Hmmmm... let's see here...
Obozo assumed office in 2009...
I wonder if the porn watcher, just by chance, may be an "equal opportunity" gov't employee?
Just sayin'...
I admit it was damn hard to fire a gov't worker even before Obozo - I personnaly know of many hard to fire piss-poor white gov't workers.
But now AFTER Obozo... it's virtually impossible to fire a "person of color" gov't worker.
I would welcome any folks who have worked in gov't facilities (as I did for over 20 years as a contractor) to add to and expound upon this. Let us hear from you...
Wake me up when this government employee steals trillions of dollars from taxpayers like the central bankers and oligarchs. Until then, it's just red meat for Red Team guys like wee-weed up. And a distraction of course.
Central bankers an oligarchs couldn't do it without government.
Wake up last surviving brain cell!
Agreed. Central banks wouldn't exist without govt. These oligarchs steal from us via legalized theft courtesy of govt. Tax code, enforced by govt guns , written by oligarchs for themselves. I agree with you on plenty of things, LTER, but this isn't one of them. This is government in action. You say you want government , there you go. What you are witnessing IS government. All of them. Since getting rid of it all together isn't real likely, the focus should be taking as much power away from them as possible, not giving them more control over anything. The more government you have, the more oligarchs there will be.
I don't want THIS government, Carl, anymore than I want these bankers who control it. Why is this concept so difficult?
What government do you want? The EU? Greek? Brazilian? Japanese? Chinese? Zimbabwe? All governments are corrupt. The more power you give them, the more people will be fucked.
For fuck's sake. You were a fed gov employee?! (see your post below). Fucking explains everything except how you sleep at night.
"I don't want THIS government, Carl,"
You want the government that provides real skittles and unicorns, rather than this one which promised them and didn't deliver? Rand, I would ask what you think the world should look like, but then I would have to listen to all 27 versions.
He's going to wind up drowned in a bath tub with no water, well call him the ghost of Whitney Houston.
His cubicle smelled like fish - what'd the dude do? Dry hump the keyboard drawer?
"Gold collar workers" - have government jobs, no stress from needing to work much, and good pay.
That phrase has become popular in recent years in China.
Governments are just one way of concentrating power. The other is through the private ownership of the means of production – and in todays financialized world another concentration of power is through the direct and indirect private ownership of the monetary system. Yes, the fascist governments (and political structures – the links between corporate entities and ‘governments’) of the Western world is a threat to humanity (our freedom, but in reality also the future of the human race – there’s a real possibility these ignoramus can destroy the eco-system and/or blow us all up in a nuclear holocaust). But the power would still be concentrated in too few (and incompetent) hands if the governments suddenly went away.
Well, my point is: it’s the concentration of power we should fight. Private or public. Right now the public sector is a servant of the private sector – we all know who owns the political parties of US (two parties with the same masters).
Let’s focus on the oligarchs – the fascists – and let’s not be distracted by all these petty stories about individuals in the lower stratus of the pyramid. Look up!
One more point on this issue: there’s an obvious interest from the private owners of the US (EU) states (the bankers – 0,01 %) to discredit all other powers than private power. If it was possible (and if there was a will) to conduct investigative journalism into how private companies worked there would be plenty of skeletons here as well – some scandals do make to the headlines (the amount of drugs taken in Wall St., the prostitution industry surrounding all nests of bankers/hubs of financial institutions, money-laundering for terrorists (CIA/Mossad/NSA/MI5-agents) and narcotic-syndicates etc. etc.). I think there’s a general and understandable decay of working ethics all around. And why be a loyal worker? Loyal towards what/whom? Actually a fair argument could be made, that those watching porn does less damage than those ‘doing their job’ (the job in todays f*cked-up world being to service the 0,01 % agenda).
The merging of big govt and big banks & corporate interests to the detriment of the population is fascism. They are not separate. The SEC, CFTC, big banks, Federal Reserve, Treasury Dept, big media companies, congress, both political parties, and other 'regulatory' agencies, etc are all mere branches of the same Octopuss. In America now, 'representative democracy' is a complete scam.
It is an illusion to keep the sheep sedate on the farm.
It's worked very well for the 'farmers'. They see it as an effective way to manage dumb animals.
Ahh, thank you. I "tried" to formulate a similar comment - you did it better!
LetThemEatRand
Speaking of distractions...
Yep, not even 2 seconds after I post anything on ZH, there's ol' reliable Pavlov's Dog, LTER...
Pouncing on the red-meat he always sees in my comments and spouting more of his irrelevant Lib garbage trying to defend his hero, Obozo.
No LTER... we won't wake you up... please stay asleep.
Think about the reporting CBS could do in addition to porn-mongering government bureaucrats.
I think you are missing the point made and that LTER typically makes.
The media is concentrated and owned by our owners and they have an agenda -- call it their war-monger oligarch money grubbing agenda.
If CBS were in the reporting business. Like I explained to the guy doing the roo-rah in Dutch the other night; TV is an entertainment medium, and easily re-purposed to propaganda. Your problem if you confuse it with news.
That's my point, it's agenda driven. I don't confuse it... I don't watch it.
+10,000
right but still ppl should not get paid to watch porn at work no matter where....
delete
Point already made by someone else.
Sorry, but stealing time (from the taxpayers) is every bit as wrong as stealing Munny. You should not be rooting for a bad guy/gal simply because the crime(s) isn't large enough to suit yer sense of outrage!
I worked for Fed.gov too. There is some sort of epidemic of people shitting in offices and hallways in federal buildings too. It happened twice in the hallway on the floor where I worked. I read about the Denver office where they also shit in the hallways.
Former federal government employee says what?
i found this site about it and a comment mentioned that it is due to somolians... doing this which i think might just be the case
here in mn when the somolians moved here, they would not use the toilets and shit on the floor...
really strange and weird. Some say they consider water sacred, so would not use the toilet....
or they just didn't know how to use a toilet... now after several years of being here they use toilets...
education i guess.
here is a link about it
but check out the comments.... below the article
http://www.naturalnews.com/045837_EPA_employees_Colorado_defecation.html
I didn't really need to know that. I have seen how they drive. Than was enough.
I worked in an NHTSA office - the people who bring national campaigns to police to threaten people to wear seatbelts. The woman in charge of the office made like $150,000 (this was 10 years ago) and drove a Jaguar. She started in the office as a Secretary and merely stuck around for a long time - it wasn't like she studied how to be a nanny-stater or developed some sort of public reputation as such. No, she just collected an asston of money to do...I'm not really sure what they did in this office.
Small family owned mfg biz I worked at years ago had a fair number of mexicans working there. They would leave the asswipe in the waste basket, refused to flush it even after being told how many times to flush it.Fucking disgusting, especially when you add the summer heat in a non AC area.
Fast forward 20 years, and a mexican I work with who has lived here his whole life, does the same often, but not always. It's almost as if it's a trait or something. I have told him to knock it off, we have good sewer systems here in the civilized world. Makes no diff, still happens a few times a week...at least he's trying.
have you called the IRS lately? Everyone of them have to axx you fro ur I.D. nummber
Government employees are nothing more than glorified wefare recipients. NOBODY wants to forcibly remove them from the government teat. They are good, solid, reliable, pro-government-everything voters.
Honestly, as an EPA employee, or most agencies for that matter, him looking at porn is probably better for the average citizen than him doing what he is paid to do. At least while watching porn he can't help enforce or write some draconian new regulation for an industry his political appointee boss doesn't like, or take away what few civil liberties they still pretend we have. Hate to say it, but if they ALL just looked at porn all day this country would probably be in better off. (Yes, obviously firing them all and doing away with these agencies all together would be better, but you get my point)
Also, jizz is renewable and biodegradable. And at EPA jobs, jizz making is sustainable.
Carl, the whole idea in this shitshow is to keep the .guv employees watching porn so the lobbyists can write the 1200 page legislation that fucks everyone but the interests who pay them.
"I wonder how many holes it takes to fill the NSA building?" -- Fastrakn1
"It’s not just Petraeus and other oligarchs either."
How the fuck is Petraeus an oligarch? He's just another fully-owned asset that gets converted to a liability once in a while...like Work In Process.
Don't take a few sensational stoies and apply them to the 22 million federal, state and local employees. There are always some bad apples, even in the private sector. The problem is the labor unions and the beurocracy have made it too difficult to get rid of the bad apples. This is a problem for public sector manages all over. But is you dont have enough protections, politicians will go on the warpath against government employees who don't toe the line. You need a balance.
All government employees are leeches. They only steal from those with the moral fiber to choose to sustain themselves and their families. Hence, they are all inherently bad apples. This is not gray area.
The only way to move a .Gov employee out of the department is to promote them thus the state of our current department heads. The shit, the dross, the fat, rises to the top as always.
Are they hiring?
If they aren't, check with the SEC. Apparently they don't have anything else to do on our dime either.
My friend's neighbor makes $100 an hour on his laptop. He's been without any real work since 2010 making $800,000 just watching porn on the computer for 2 to 6 hours a day. You can look here: www.epa.gov
Finally, a bona fide citation.
can you pass the 4 hour erection test?
Is this an old story or a new instance of the same thing? I remember hearing about this years ago. Probably just another dickwad getting caught for the same thing.
Where do I apply?
This goes on all the time, why do you think people get into or fight to get into these jobs. They know that ít's nearly impossible to get fired, hell even spying it depends on who did it and who that person is connected to and the public may never hear about it and the person will still be on the job. There is another reason also. Remember that show on USA called Burn Notice about the govt. spy that got essentially fired but they couldn't allow him to leave Miami his home town because he just knew to much information and how the govt. works etc. etc.. Many times govt. positions for people getting out of the military and/or who have been in govt. service is done this way because they know to much about what they have been doing and how the govt. works and other things and losing these people makes it easy for someone to use them against the govt. either people in the US or an agent from another country.
So it's good to keep them on the "reservation" and then let them retire.
Hey the porn keeps him busy adn he doesn't have time to smoke crack or fukk with industries that still employ somebody.
Normally I would agree however, these slothful cowards will simply point to lack of efficacy as justification for moar MrYellenBux. The Pewblik Edewkayted Pewbliks of the Soviet States of Amerika will eat it up after a few selfies of Kim Kardashian standing next to her own ass.
no see you don't understand, they are trying to fire him because he doesn't watch enough porn. not meeting production numbers. poor attitude, etc.
Not holding up his end of the stick
I honestly am ok with Russia or Iran nuking us at this point.
I do see the justice in it.
Please Please let them start with D.C.
I need a new bumper sticker: Nuke a Pornatician Today
Better for us that he watch porn than he promulgate more really stupid EPA regulations. Too bad the morons who gave us "CO2 is a poisonous gas" regs aren't instead addicted to watching gay MILFs on their government PCs.
Hey I want a clown for my party too!
Ha, a clown and a mind-reader... damn, this is stupid
How I stop the ads on this site from making noise?
AdBlock Plus.
While installing that, install Ghostery...
And Noscript.
and No Moan, keeps ur co-workers from hearing the porn
FlashBlock stops the flash movies from automatically playing and FleshBlock cuts out the porn.
Turn the volume down
Keep voting, and by all means keep paying the slave tax.
what did you do for the other 2 hours, ?
wipe up and smoke cigarettes.
Public Sector Unions. Do I need say anything more?
Be it federal employees, teachers, or cops, whenever you find something involving government that's fucked up and expensive, invariably you'll find public sector unions and taxpayer-funded pensions at the heart of it all.
Getting paid to look at porno... where the fuck do i sign up?
At your nearest NSA branch.
If al quaeda were transmitting secret messages through pornography, I might believe that.
Watch the way they move their tongues.
I think they are writing in Arabic.
how can anyone watch 6 hours (minimum) of porn per day?
Shit, I'd be "pulling a double" for the OT pay.,,easy as a pie (cream)
Maybe he is scared to death to face reality, and so xxx we run away to shangri-la.....
I looked all over web-porn for a parody of Uncle Sam bending over John Q. Public, and reaming his ass.
I didn't find one, I guess this article is it...
Bureau rats
If you can't beat em. Beat Off.
Meanwhile, the IRS takes peoples homes every single day. Because they lost a receipt for a business dinner at McDonalds.
To pay the salary of this wanker. to pay the lawyers that protect him. To pay his pension. To pay for his career counseling. To pay his union dues that help all federal employees, including those at the IRS.
Someday they will be useful as streetlamp decorations.
On the other hand, if the lad isn't doing what he's paid to do, perhaps we're the better off for it!
The article failed to mention the massive pension this employee will get for watching 6 hours of porn a day. I have seen this shit first hand and it causes my blood to boil...
Looks like we all picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue
Admit it, you're jealous.
Frankly, I turned them down at the interview when they wouldn't throw in the free lube and jizz mop.
ah, General Betray-Us
you did live up to your name in full.
God damn US government. And what pisses me off more is that this guy along with other parasite will get raises and more compensations every year.
Government unions are sitting on a ton of money whichgoes to Democrats who promptly reward the government unions with eternal jobs. They got a special Obama dispensation during the great recession - just like the banksters.
Useless fucks. No different here in Canada.
Shit. If only I had known in college that watching porn could be a career...
hmm. not really.
.gov employee gets the rim job.
you, dumb ass tax payer, you get to give the rim job.
also, they dont have to wash before you apply the tongue.
enjoy.
When I see stories like this, I think of that nerdy guy in the movie "Billy Madison" who had the kill list of all the people that jacked him over in high school.
Brilliant.
um.....i'm as horny as the next guy, but really..... watching porn for 2-6 hours a day?
who in their right mind would want to do that? i mean....it would be a bit....er....repetitive.
It would lead to calluses on not just your hands, but your cock too.
those calluses come right off if you just wank with a nice rusty piece of steel wool.
He shouldn't be fired, he needs to be treated!
Sent to a seminary - porn torture
Bringing down the Western financial system was ok?
Seriously, I see nothing wrong with this. In fact; LET THEM WATCH PORN ALL DAY LONG, EVERYDAY. That way, it is just one less gubmint entity we have to worry about. Especially the EPA.
If he's doing this at work, imagine what he does when he gets off (no pun intended)
Fuck me!! I am in. No need to work + pension.
They should give me his job. At least I'd spend my time looking up shit that I find interesting. That way, with all of the seemingly useless knowledge in my head, when a real problem actually arose, I might actually be able to figure out a real solution and blow people's minds by being a government worker who didn't fuck something up.
=== Managing our land sustainably ===
http://www.neurope.eu/article/poto%C4%8Dnik-managing-our-land-sustainabl...
In het DAB-systeem moet iedere burger aangegeven bij welke geloof (lees: politieke partij) hij zich het gelukkigste voelt. Natuurlijk mag hij gedurende zijn leven van mening veranderen. Dit zal zorgdragen dat iedere politieke partij zich verantwoordelijk gaat voelen voor zijn achterban. Zodoende wordt ook eerder zichtbaar wanneer de politieke leider de ZeitGeist niet meer goed aanvoelt.
When this horn dog wanker wasn't porn surfing, he was actually quite productive in his two remaining hours per day.
He's the guy who came up with the powdered mercury-laden CFC light bulbs that take five minutes to warm up and explode if you drop them, the 1.5 gallon toilets that don't flush right, and the cap nozzles for the EPA-certified gasoline cans that dump a pint of gas on your shoes while you're filling a half-gallon snowblower tank.
Next Stop for Johnnie JerkOff:
Promotion to the TSA for a taste of the "real deal" - up-close and personal.
What's the name and address of this cunt. I'm sure I can fix this problem.
That's the reliable base of slave minions that are used to control the larger population......of slaves
Everybody seems to be disgusted with this (poor) guy, and I understand that. But what about his fucking boss?? What has he/she been up to meanwhile?
Nice work if you can get it.
Net neutered law while using Hillary's PSP account to watch wankers like Billy buttfuck a NGO. Sign-up on Clinton@hushmail.com for dot com XXX entertainment.
New normal, I guess.
Damn !!!! No I know why those defense contracts had the pages glued together.....
Damn, porn AND 7$ Sushi rolls! The American dream is still true!
From an evious Southern European.
We're gonna' need a lotta' rope.
Some pigs are more equal than others ...
The government got to where it is by slowly ratcheting up. We need to slowly ratchet it back down ... then weld a stop so it can't go up again.
You mean they watch this stuff"
https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/its-not-the-size-of-...
Seems this is what happens when the New Paridigm is full of useless eaters. We have gotten to a point where we, generally speaking, just don't need as many proles to keep the gears turning.
A few key players make things happen. A group sits at the top and pulls the levers. A very large group are just housed and fed.
And then there is .gov. And their job seems to be to come up with new and innovative ways to shear and fleece the few remaining productive.
At some point, this hits a tipping point, and it comes crashing down.
Or maybe not. Someone with two brain cells would conclude it would not last this long.
Can I get a government job - any old job - that allows me to work remotely from home?
I fired an Intern Engineer for watching porn on a Defense Department computer. There was a record of every site he had visited.
His porn sites must not have employed union porn stars - must stick with the union or your toast.
Unions are bad enough but government unions should not exist.
In a free society anyone can make a union, and anyone can fire employees on whim (unless contract states differently). Though for an efficient government I'd propose a law that if any public employee goes on strike or threatens to leave if another employee gets fired (that is lawful action of a union in private company) - fire them. It would actually make sense to pay beaurocrats pretty well, if their numbers were down and they faced consequences of their actions. Sure let this important regulator get a lavish salary, but for any court certified screw up - he's liable with his whole net worth.
Big deal. Looks like he was doing comprehensive research on mean copulation duration as a result of climate change.
Let the man finish his work and plot his data points.
I'm a fortune teller, I already know what his results will be:
- This is a crisis of epic proportions, there's only a very narrow window of opportunity to reverse this dire situation, to get the very best response as soon as possible we'll need to assemble a team of the very best (and pay them well) to finalize the research,
- For this team I've already scouted out best talent - accidentally two are my cousins, three are my friends and my new personal secretary is a one hell of a hot girl I've met (by pure chance) at a strip club.
Fuck you Americans!
But, but...they are making a sacrifice by not taking higher paying offers in the private sector. They are doing US a favor, just ask them!
"Watching 6 Hours Of Porn A Day At Work"
What else is Dear Leader Obama going to do? Even that pushes his intellectual ability.
When confronted, the 265-pound employee Shitavious Johnson replied, "Jis keepin' it real'n'sheeit."
This should not be disclosed due to national security, you know the term that voids any accountability.
Employers in the private sector simply block access to specific sites, but the gov would need extra funding to pull off a IT accomplishment like that.
Team America, Fuck yeah!!
I think we may be viewing an opportunity, and mistaking it for a problem.
Maybe we could all chip in to create a non-profit foundation to provide free, high-quality, high definition, raging hot porn to suit every salacious taste for every White House staffer, Senator, Congressman, Capitol staffer, and employee in the FedGov, and various statehouse and municipal governing bodies who apply.
I'd rather they were wanking and tweaking themselves than causing trouble for citizens. Look how ineffectual the SEC has been - everyone here knows that govt porn viewing away from the spouse's prying eyes was a significant contributor. Just think how much money and trouble we could save ourselves.
In fact, we could pay time and a half bonuses for employees of certain important organizations like IRS, DHS, NSA, ....
They still work 2 hours a day so.....
...and he'll still get his pension.
We'll be paying for this wanker (pun intended) for a very, very long time.
Watching porn? You mean C-Span?...