See this story from today's National Post. If accurate, this is story is quite amazing: despite wasting an enormous amount of time on the job, sending nude photos through government email, and apparently not being forthcoming during the investigation, this individual gets to keep his job.
Would he have kept his job in the private sector? Probably not, as his conduct would have been grounds for dismissal with just cause. No private sector employer would have tolerated such conduct. Obviously, if he spent five hours a day on this matter, he was probably not doing much else at work, given the eight hour days....In the private sector, his desk would have been cleared within five minutes. I wonder if the story is missing something from the facts, as this is quite incredible.
But I suppose we are "nice Canadians" so we must tolerate tax dollars wasted, inefficiency and unbecoming conduct. What do civil servants need to do to get fired? This is puzzling....Only in Canada....
Civil servant keeps job despite porn
Civil servant keeps job despite porn
Glen McGregor, Postmedia News · Friday, Dec. 31, 2010
A federal government employee who spent as much as five hours a day searching pornographic personal ads on his office computer and sending naked photos of himself from his work email has kept his job.
The Canadian Border Services Agency has conducted an investigation into allegations an employee in its national headquarters in Ottawa was reading and responding to sexually explicit ads on Craigslist, Kijiji and other sites while at work. The department was tipped off in January by a member of the public who thought it inappropriate to use a government email address to respond to personal ads.
The professional standards investigation revealed the unidentified employee spent 176 hours--about 4½work weeks --on the Internet over a three-month period.
A search of his CBSA email account found he had used it to send and receive explicit descriptions and photos, including pictures of genitalia and sex acts.
"He exchanges emails with interested parties and gives detailed descriptions of himself, including his sexual organs," the investigation report says. "He speaks of his sexual preferences and comments on explicit photographs of sexual acts sent to him by people responding to his ad."
The employee will also "forward to interested parties naked photos of himself (head excluded). These pictures are extremely explicit and inappropriate."
The numerous hours spent on the Internet every day affects his work, the report concludes. Investigators said that the employee had breached the agency's policy on the use of electronic resources.
But CBSA would not say what disciplinary action was taken.
"We can confirm that following the professional standards investigation, appropriate disciplinary measures were taken," spokeswoman Esme Bailey said in an email. "We can also tell you that the employee does not occupy a position that interacts with the general public."
Ms. Bailey said CBSA allows limited personal use of email and the Internet, provided it complies with other policies.
"The incidence of misuse of workplace equipment is very low," she said.
Although CBSA restricts access to Craigslist, the employee was able to get to the personal ads by using a variant of the address not blocked by the department's servers. The web logs show he spent the most time on usedottawa.com,a classified ads site, and investigators said it was safe to assume some of this time was spent on its personal listings. The employee had been working for the department for six years at the time of the investigation.
During an interview with investigators, he first said he was accessing the ads on his lunch-hour and breaks. Later, he said he spent three hours a day searching personal ads and said he couldn't argue if the web logs showed he sometimes spent five hours daily online.
He said the nude photos he sends out are not of himself. He said he is a hard worker and felt guilty about the inappropriate Internet use.
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Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/Civil+servant+keeps+despite+porn/4043797/story.html#ixzz19hpfj0b8
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