Employees at the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency are facing major cutbacks in their respective Federal offices. But given how many of them watch porn while they should be working, Donald Trump’s promise to downsize may be just what’s needed.
According to a report from NBC‘s Washington DC affiliate, compiled from a series of Freedom of Information Act requests., employees in 12 federal agencies have been disciplined for watching porn during business hours. More than 100 of those cases are labeled “egregious,” with some workers spending up to six hours a day viewing adult content at their desks.
There are thousands of Federal employees, but these cases represent the worst of the worst: those that had to be referred to an inspector general.
Workers at the DOJ and the EPA appear to be the worst offenders. According to the Washington Free Beacon, those cases include a notorious EPA official in the Office of Air and Radiation, who “watched porn between two and six hours every day, masturbated at work,” and still received bonuses from the agency on top of his $120,000 salary.
He told investigators that he spent “a lot” of his day “organizing’ the pornography he downloaded into saved folders,” so at least you can be assured he was detail-oriented.
Other cases involve EPA workers who watched porn for 2-6 hours per day, and a Justice Department official who spent the “majority of his duty time viewing inappropriate adult websites,” and collected around 1,100 adult photos, which he also carefully organized for posterity on his workplace desktop computer. A Department of Commerce employee had 1,800.
A single Railroad Commission worker racked up 252 hours watching porn in one year, “the equivalent of ten full work days.”
The Department of Transportation, the report seems to claim, is the government’s kinkiest. Recorded searches from the DOT offices in DC include, “teen+underwear+blonde,” “teen+slut+tight+pants,” “orgy+prague+OR+Czech,” and “petite+blonde+teen.”
Sadly, it also appears the government employed several individuals who sought child pornography during the workday, including an individual at the FBI who communicated regularly with a girl who it turned out was ninth grade, and was “receiving, viewing, and saving approximately 50 images of suspected child pornography.”
According to the NBC affiliate, Sen. Mark Meadows is working on introducing a bill in Congress to prevent these kinds of situations, but surfing porn at work is already against the rules for government workers.