A Japanese civil servant was demoted for viewing pornographic Web sites more than 780,000 times during office hours over a nine-month period, an official said Friday.
The man, an employee of the Kinokawa government in western Japan, visited porn sites from June last year to February 2008, Kinokawa official Tomiko Waki said. The man's name was withheld.
Despite his frequent porn viewing, none of his colleagues noticed his activities.
'Each desk is set apart from each other,' Waki said, adding that the man accessed porn sites 170,000 times in July alone.
The man's superiors discovered his extensive porn site visits after his computer became infected with a virus, prompting officials to examine his web browser's history.
Along with the demotion, he received a 20,000 yen (£96) monthly pay cut, Waki said.
I'm not sure how they got that number. Did they count every image and stylesheet (haha, japs don't use CSS) embedded in a page, or is the number of unique URLs, or what?
That'd be more than 5000 times a day, or 500 an hour if he works 10-hour shifts 7 days a week.
Damn. I'm impressed.
Maybe he was just f5-ing Futaba.