By the Numbers: D.C.'s Government Porn Problem
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Like (ON WEDNESDAY, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty announced the firing of nine D.C. government employees for looking at pornography on their office computers. The dismissals came after an internal investigation of computer use across various agencies of the D.C. government.
Let's take a look at the porn problem by the numbers ...
» 200: The average number of times per workday in 2007 that three of the nine fired workers looked at inappropriate images.
» 39,000: The number of times in 2007 that three of the nine fired workers looked at inappropriate images.
» 32: The number of employees found to have looked at pornography at the office at least 2,000 times during 2007. Those employees will be reprimanded or suspended.
» 10,000: The number of city computers that were reviewed in the porn probe.
» $142,000: The amount of money spent to upgrade anti-porn software on 30,000 city computers.
For today's Poll Center question, we ask: Have you ever used a computer at work to surf the Web for pornography? Go vote (and comment) here and see how your fellow commuters weighed in, station by station, line by line.
» "9 D.C. Workers Fired For Looking at Porn" [WaPo]
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Doing the math, even the 'minor' suspended/reprimanded employees were in a pretty bad way.
You have to figure that out of 250 work-days in a year (365 minus 104 weekend days minus let's say 11 holidays = 250), if these 32 other employees brought up porn pages 2,000 times, that's:
2000/250 = 8 times a day. And these are just the people who were let off with a warning. Yeesh.
By AUA , Posted January 24, 2008 1:33 PMAUA: You at work? Just sayin' . . .
By Mike Licht , Posted January 25, 2008 2:30 PMWell, I did have my pants up at least :-)
By AUA , Posted January 27, 2008 11:42 AM