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To: tejek who wrote (798862)	8/2/2014 11:21:28 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1579738

lolololol coming from the golfer-in-chief. that's a hoot. obAMA HAS NEVER FINISHED A THING IN HIS LIFE, EXCEPT MAYBE A BLUNT

To: tejek who wrote (798862)	8/2/2014 11:21:36 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1579738

Porn-surfing feds blame boredom, lack of workfor misbehavior Employees rarely face criminal prosecution for time and attendance fraud [ Your tax dollars at work. Isn't it nice to think that these poor souls with nothing to do, driven to porn surfing by boredom, are being paid with your tax dollars? But there's a bright side to this. While they're surfing for porn or shopping online etc, they're NOT plotting against us. Not auditing our taxes, not working to shut down power plants, not investigating churches, devising unworkable health care ideas, not harassing landowners over swampy places on their farms, ..... you get the idea. At least they're only wasting the money spent on their salaries and not making life worse for others. I'll bet bentway kicks himself for not getting a government job. ] For one Federal Communications Commission worker, his porn habit at work was easy to explain: Things were slow, he told investigators, so he perused it “out of boredom” — for up to eight hours each week. Lack of work has emerged time and again in federal investigations, and it’s not just porn, nor is it confined to the FCC. Across government, employees caught wasting time at work say they simply didn’t have enough work to do, according to investigation records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. “He stated he is aware it is against government rules and regulations, but he often does not have enough work to do and has free time,” investigators wrote of another federal employee, this one at the Treasury Department, who viewed more than 13,000 pornographic images in a six-week span. ............ In another recent case, a GSA employee who spent about two hours a day on a computer looking at pornography and dating sites “sometimes became bored during these long hours at the computer and would often use the computer for personal use to pass the time,” according to a case report by the GSA inspector general last year. In a more recent and far more costly example, U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board paralegals received salaries and bonuses for years even though they spent much of their time watching television, shopping online, exercising and wasting time on their tablet computers, according to an investigation released this week by the Commerce Department’s inspector general. Investigators estimate that more than $4 million was spent paying employees for time they weren’t working. The paralegals, who can’t create their own work, later told investigators that the reason was simple: Supervisors weren’t giving them any assignments. Some supervisors were reluctant to give paralegals special projects out of fear that the assignments could antagonize the labor union. .......... Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/31/feds-accept-bordom-lack-of-work-as-excuses-for-sur/#ixzz39FBJmAnX Follow us: @washtimes on