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   Short anwser, Internet mail, porn and news.  Bet they even day trade   
   while you tax sheep pay their wages.  Bet over paid senior management is   
   the worst too.  Your tax dollars at work.   
      
   Even bet the ones they catch are still working there.   
      
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     Health Canada employees goofing off online   
   By MATHIEU TURBIDE, QMI Agency   
   			   
   Health Canada is taking action on employees making "inappropriate" use   
   of information networks. (QMI Agency photo illustration)   
   	   
   Internet slacking a growing workplace issue   
      
   Do you think the civil service is mismanaged?   
      
   MONTREAL - Dozens of Health Canada civil servants were caught spending   
   most of their time on the job surfing the web, checking personal emails,   
   reading news, watching videos or playing online games. In some extreme   
   cases, people were fired.   
      
   Documents obtained by QMI Agency through Access to Information reveal   
   that civil servants at Health Canada and at Canada's Public Health   
   Agency at times spent the equivalent of three work weeks per month using   
   the Internet for non-work activities.   
      
   Some 160 monthly investigative reports produced by the Health Ministry's   
   information technology security division contain precise and often   
   embarrassing figures for the civil servants.   
      
   In one case, an employee under investigation spent close to 60 hours   
   watching videos in November 2008 alone - the equivalent of more than a   
   week-and-a-half of work.   
      
   Another employee was constantly wired to news sites to the tune of 182   
   hours in September 2008 and 220 hours the month before. This was no   
   passive use of the Internet, with tabs left open or windows minimized.   
   During these 220 hours of surfing, the employee registered 6,000 hits <   
   an average of 27 clicks an hour.   
      
   In May 2009, another civil servant spent 34 hours checking, reading, and   
   emailing from a personal email client.   
      
   Health Canada says it does everything it can to monitor networks and   
   take action against abusers.   
      
   "In the two organizations, employees were dismissed for inappropriate   
   use of the Internet," said Christelle Legault, media relations agent at   
   Health Canada.   
      
   Legault would not comment on the nature of the disciplinary measures   
   undertaken towards the employees, or say how many employees had been   
   dismissed.   
      
   In all of the investigations made, only one employee was caught surfing   
   pornographic sites.   
      
   In this particular case, the inquiry went deeper, and a complete   
   analysis of the three computers at his disposal became necessary.   
   Pornographic material was found on two of the three computers. Legault   
   would not say if that person has been fired.   
      
   The federal information technology security division conducted 46   
   investigations relating to 44 employees, between 2006 and 2009.   
      
   On each occasion, the investigation was launched as a result of internal   
   whistle-blowing. In over half of the cases, investigators concluded that   
   the civil servants were making "inappropriate" use of information networks.   
      
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