A city employee in Baltimore, Md. spent half of his hours at work watching porn. The employee, a maintenance supervisor with the Department of Public Works, was suspended in September and then fired in January after a termination appeal, which all resulted from his adult entertainment viewing being monitored and documented, according to The Baltimore Sun.
City officials will not identify the man - "citing personnel confidentiality," according to The Baltimore Sun - but a report stated the former city worker would bring a pornography DVD from home to watch at his computer at work.
After a complaint was filed by a coworker at the facilities division of the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant, monitoring software was installed on the man's work computer. City officials estimated that over a 82-hour work period, the man spent 39 hours watching porn full screen, which lead the higher ups to realize "little to no work was being performed during the time that pornographic material was visible on the screen," according to The Baltimore Sun. On one occasion, the man viewed pornography for six hours and 46 minutes - almost the entire eight-hour day.
"It would have been the same if he were watching sports on his computer for four out of eight hours a day," Inspector General Rob Pearre Jr. told The Baltimore Sun. Pearre told The Sun that the city has not decided if they will go after the man for wage recuperation. The man had been "getting away with this for some time," Pearre said, according to the Daily Star. Hypothetically, the city's report states that if the man viewed the blue movies at that same rate during a 2,000-hour work year, 951 hours would have been spent watching porn, equaling about $28,400.
