How much is too much porn at the office? Evidently, if you work in a Japanese regional government office, viewing porn sites 780,000 times over a nine-month period is a little too much.An employee of the Kinokawa government in western Japan (whose name has been withheld), somehow found the time in his work day to spend an epic amount of time on nudie sites between June 2007 and February 2008. In July of last year alone, he looked at porn sites 170,000 times. For the offense, he was demoted and took a monthly pay cut of around $200.
Now, admittedly we at Asylum have spent time browsing some of the more unsavory parts of the Internet (as we've stated before, it's all in the name of research), but we're kind of stunned that someone could find the time and interest to hit so many sites so quickly. By our rough calculation, this dude must have seen 3,000 porn pages a day while sitting in his cubicle. Still, none of his colleagues reported having noticed his activities.
Japan isn't the only place where people look at porn in the office. In fact, as we noted in January, it happens right here in the United States.
Question raised: Do you think there should be rules against porn at the office?







































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Friday 02 May
By Lillienne
FINALLY! A NORMAL SIZED WOMAN! It's about time.
Hollywood and magazines would have us think that abnormally small women and Photoshopped pictures are REAL. They are NOT, and you stupid men need to realize it.
This is NORMAL. It is HEALTHY. It is REAL . . . and it's about time.
BRAVO.
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Friday 02 May
By randy
sound a little jealous to me
Saturday 10 May
By emailbookmarking
yes. this guy is lucky rather. wait....i got demoted in my prev job because of not porn. i used to c celebrity pics LIKE THIS ?. This guy is lucky, indeed very lucky
Friday 02 May
By Carolyn Anderson
Your employer is paying you to work, not surf the net looking at porn or anything else unrelated to your job. No, porn should not be allowed or d/l at work. If your thing is porn sites, then you should do that on your own time in the privacy of your own home. The same with just plain surfing the net, or emailing jokes, etc - Personal calls are generally not allowed except for emergencies so why should personal email be allowed?
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Saturday 03 May
By AC Walker
While any sensible person knows that porn should not be allowed at an office (if only for reasons of sexual harassment liability), Carolyn and Cheryl are WAY overboard and have proven how brainwashed American workers have become. Companies are paying you to do a JOB- they are not renting you or buying you, yourself. If you have gotten your work done and none is currently forthcoming, there should be no problem with a short personal phone call, with browsing the internet, with doing exercises at your cubicle or with anything else that helps maintain your sanity and doesn't infringe upon the rights of others. The byword of business nowadays is "increased productivity"- in other words, "How do we get fewer workers to do more stuff for less money?" Well, the trend toward completely joyless, over-regulated workplaces that allow for no downtime is responsible for enough reduction of productivity that it counteracts any new efficiency plans. It's also why, the next time you call someone for customer service or go to a counter you will, more often than not, be waited on by someone rude, surly, and clearly unhappy.
Work smarter, not harder.
Friday 02 May
By lulu zuzu
It's called an addiction. I know, it happened to my lawyer ex-husband. It caused him to lose his license to practice law. When you sit in your office all day looking at porn on the net and neglect to go to court, or call your clients or other attorneys, it's considered unprofessional conduct.
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Friday 02 May
By wolf
umm.. it IS against the rules @ most businesses... in fact alot of them have webfilters to prevent employees from surfing "inappropriate" sites...mainly because they can inadvertently let viruses into the network by going to the wrong sites...
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Friday 02 May
By James
One should be fired for this. First I can't imagine him having time to see all of this. No reason to keep him. I'd think there wouldn't be enough time to do whatever he was suppose to be doing in first place. FIRE HIM. What's $200 a month, anyway?
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Friday 02 May
By eddy
Looks like government is the same everywhere...A bunch of goldbricks living off tax money...What's cheaper ?? Fine him the 200 bucks or fire him and pay him welfare ???
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Saturday 10 May
By Jim
How bout, fine him the 200, fire him & No Welfare. Ah, too harsh?
Friday 02 May
By Marcus
Hey Lillienne, if a woman is 130 lbs she better be over 6 feet tall, else shes a fat cow.
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Friday 02 May
By Fred
.........."In July of last year alone, he looked at porn sites 170,000 times."...........
Well, acording to my math which has 21.67 work days per month on average that is 7,844.95 looks per day. At 8 hours per day that is 980.62 looks per hour. At 60 minutes per hour that is 16.34 looks per minute. At 60 seconds per minute that is approximately one look every 3.67 seconds.
Man, this guy has one damn fast browser!!!
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Friday 02 May
By Wolfster
Thanks for the math, Fred, I was wondering. Now my question is, was the guy trying for Guinness? Coz he didn't have time to actually LOOK at anything.
Saturday 03 May
By Bubby
you cracked me up Marcus. A man after my own heart
Friday 02 May
By real guy
Real women have curves. Thick and voluptuous women absolutely rule. You boys can have the twigs and leave the real women to us real men that know what a real woman is!
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Friday 02 May
By Jennifer
Dude check the porn AT HOME. Didnt he know better? I guess not.
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Friday 02 May
By Mitch
The guy would need a photographic memory to even glance at that many porn sites in that short a time. It doesn't compute!!
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Saturday 03 May
By Cheryl
As far as I am concerned any amount of looking at sites that are not connected to your job is wrong, but looking a porn sites at work is even worse and offensive. If it were an employee of mine it would be grounds for firing ASAP. If a woman employee walked by and saw it in this country she could sue the company for sexual harrasment and I couldn't blame her. I would put that in a packet when and employee was first hired so they would know if they visited those sites at work they would be subject to being fired ASAP...it is unacceptable behavior in a work place.
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Saturday 03 May
By Shelley
LMAO - Too funny. People lighten up now! This man was researching maybe. omg this is a funny story.
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Saturday 03 May
By Bubby
IT IS TOO FUNNY!!