{"id":17792,"date":"2012-11-16T09:49:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T14:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17792"},"modified":"2012-11-16T09:53:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T14:53:25","slug":"sec-employee-stress-level-must-be-down-because-theyre-not-surfing-for-porn-during-98-of-the-workday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/11\/16\/sec-employee-stress-level-must-be-down-because-theyre-not-surfing-for-porn-during-98-of-the-workday\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC employee stress levels must be down because they&#8217;re not surfing for porn during &#8220;98% of the workday&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the hard life of the SEC employee must have gotten a bit less stressful recently. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20121113\/16501921036\/sec-porn-surfing-down-waste-up-stunning-disregard-basic-computer-security.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Cushing<\/a> has the, um, sordid details:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An internal investigative report of the SEC&#8217;s Trading and Markets division has been recently been reviewed by Reuters. After reading its <a href=\"http:\/\/newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com\/Securities\/News\/2012\/11_-_November\/SEC_staffers_used_govn_t_computers_for_personal_use_-_report\/\" target=\"_blank\">rundown of the misdeeds and abuses uncovered<\/a>, I&#8217;m left with the urge to laugh maniacally in the manner of someone having just cleared the tipping point and now sliding irretrievably into insanity. The sheer irresponsibility on display here springs from the sort of irredeemable carelessness that comes with spending other people&#8217;s money (taxes) and operating without any credible oversight or accountability (a large percentage of government entities).<\/p>\n<p>Bess Levin at <em>Dealbreaker<\/em> points out that while <a href=\"http:\/\/dealbreaker.com\/2012\/11\/sec-staffers-have-made-remarkable-progress-re-learning-what-constitutes-appropriate-use-of-a-work-computer\/\" target=\"_blank\">the SEC&#8217;s internal investigation may have turned up several misdeeds<\/a>, ranging from the merely stupid to the positively horrendous, it is quite a step up from the insatiable pornhounds that used to populate the Commission:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>If you had asked us two years or two months or two days ago if we thought that there would be a time in the near future when Securities and Exchange employees would not be regularly <a href=\"http:\/\/dealbreaker.com\/2010\/04\/sec-official-who-surfed-tranny-porn-to-deal-with-stress-of-the-job-not-alone\/\" target=\"_blank\">reprimanded for watching porn on their work-issued computers for 98 percent of the workday<\/a>, we would have said absolutely not. No judgment, but in our professional opinion, people do not go from, among other things:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>    <em>* Receiving \u201cover 16,000 access denials for Internet websites classified by the Commission\u2019s Internet filter as either \u201cSex\u201d or \u201cPornography\u201d in a one-month period\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>    <em>* Accessing \u201cInternet pornography and downloading pornographic images to his SEC computer during work hours so frequently that, on some days, he spent eight hours accessing Internet pornography\u2026downloading so much pornography to his government computer that he exhausted the available space on the computer hard drive and downloaded pornography to CDs or DVDs that he accumulated in boxes in his office.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>    <em>\u2026to living a porn-free existence at l\u2019office.<\/em>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Truly a mind-boggling set of employees. One regional staff accountant ran into the &#8220;no-porn&#8221; wall 1,800 times in a two week period, yet remained undeterred. Those caught accessing porn with ridiculous frequency cited the &#8220;stress&#8221; of their jobs as the underlying reason for the nearly uninterrupted pornathons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the hard life of the SEC employee must have gotten a bit less stressful recently. Tim Cushing has the, um, sordid details: An internal investigative report of the SEC&#8217;s Trading and Markets division has been recently been reviewed by Reuters. After reading its rundown of the misdeeds and abuses uncovered, I&#8217;m left with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,84,13],"tags":[58,408,661,519],"class_list":["post-17792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-government","category-usa","tag-internet","tag-pornography","tag-regulation","tag-stress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4CY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17792"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17798,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17792\/revisions\/17798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}