One man found an interesting way to make his job more enjoyable: he raided his porn DVD cabinet and brought a few choice videos to work. In fact, in two weeks he managed to get through 39 hours of XXX fun.
The as-of-yet unnamed maintenance supervisor with the Department of Public Works in Baltimore was employed at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant. He's now unemployed, meaning his hands are free for porn 24/7. Hooray!
The Baltimore Sun broke the story, reporting that the employee would watch the videos in full screen mode.
He was first caught with his pants down by management back in September. After an internal investigation, he was fired in January (though the report on the incident has only now come to light). We believe his porn stash was confiscated and is being kept for investigative purposes by a handful of diligent investigators.
“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 said.
The loss to the city was $1,166 in wages over the two week period. However, if the masturbating maintenance supervisor had been doing this all year, it would mean 951 hours over a 2,000-hour work year, or about $28,400 in pay. That's a lot of lube ... or hand cream ... or whatever he was using.
Given the recent news out of Baltimore, it's not the most outrageous crime, but at least it was one that was simple to address.