Stories about misbehaving public officials are commonplace - they differ only in the details. But the details usually make interesting reading.
A Wakayama prefecture civil servant has made worldwide headlines with a feat of astonishing dedication.
Tax-payers in Kinokawa wish he could show similar dedication to his job. For it has been revealed in a 9-month period, the horny civil servant clocked up more than three quarters of a million hits on pornographic websites from his work computer.
His superiors were alerted to the problem only when his computer became infected with a virus.
The 57-year-old man, who has not been named, works for the city of Kinokawa in southern Japan.
That works out at almost 10,000 pages a day, or more than 20 each minute he was at his desk.
The BBC reports that his habit “reached its peak” last July with more than 177,000 page hits times during office hours.
The man has not been fired.
well double-o, as Sir Humpfree once remarked.. “any Jobsworth his salt is a Jobsworth doing”
(WOW!!)…did i actually write that?
That’s it! i’m going to the nearest Ding Dong Temple tomorrow and have a good lie down.
Good Night
remora
just a minor point of explanation of jargonese..for those of North American extraction.
http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_561510312/jobsworth.html
rem.
(again good nite!)