The PainFul Sequester Cuts Cost One Federal Job

And jobs too.

 

I'm positive you will claim this is an isolated incident.

http://www.businessinsider.com/epa-employee-hours-of-porn-at-work-for-years-2014-5#!KYfMt

 

Are you saying that is typical? I bet I can find more instances of cops planting evidence and breaking the law in the last year than you can find of government employees watching hours of porn at work in the same time span. Which do you find more egregious?

All government work stations are monitored for your normal employees. You would be busted within the day.

 

So am I crazy? I don't even actually work for the government but I find this claim hollow.

 

Umm, not everywhere, but while your statement is overly strong, I'd wager the whack attack isn't happening all that much either.

 

Why do you believe it is overly strong? Are government work stations not monitored?

 

Just because you consent to being monitored doesn't mean you are. Outside of a few basic port filters and website black lists, I doubt the majority of government computers ever get looked at.

 

Hmm. Time to break out the porn then.

 

I dont know about these other places but we cant even get to ****ing Facebook much less a porn site! We have damn acceptable use training every other month it seems like and there is a zero tolerance policy for pornography.

 

Yep. Enjoy your sequester pay that 80 % of Americans think you got.

 

Just the busted within the day part.

Not all of them are monitored in the same way. Sometimes contractors are watched more closely than their govt counterparts.

Ours were monitored with access to all kinds of sites like reference sites, educational, religious, message boards, health and wellness, etc. limited to 30 minutes a day and things like porn, alcohol, drugs, and the like absolutely forbidden. Meanwhile on the other side of the fence, things were barely monitored on the GS computers as it was explained to me by a former IT guy I worked with.

Even with all of the monitoring and filters, some of our more idle employees figured out a way to get around the sensors using Firefox booted from a thumb drive. Apparently, that had been going on for a year or so. A couple of folks got canned for it in the end as I recall. Word was they would have gotten away with it forever, but too many people got in on it.

 

But thumb drives that ever travel outside of a gov network are no-no's too...?

 

Possibly, I dunno. I got chewed out for using a portable hard drive to access some documents from a previous employer, but I was told my personal thumb drive was okay.

 

MP3 players can act as thumb drives.

I did that when I was in.

 

I'm pretty sure you are not supposed to. At least as of last year. You can bring in a worm that way.

 

Is it possible that as a volunteer at the DOI they had me on more secure projects than some of you military types? WTF?

 

I'm not an IT saavy guy so I don't know how it is done but our laptop USB ports will not accept removable media. That said, I can plug my headphones in and they work and my wireless mouse works. Removable media is prohibited for us ... no exceptions. It's a pain in the ass when you need to move large files but now there is web based secure file exchange that we can use.

 

This is how it was when I interned at a Livermore labs. Only way to get outside files in was to email the to yourself

 

That sounds like the rules I was given, smoky.

 

I think it's fairly obvious that, whatever the rule is, it's not being applied in the same manner across the board. That's not necessarily surprising though.