State-Sponsored Solitaire?

jefu writes "According to this story the state of North Carolina may be considering banning solitaire on state owned machines. It seems that state workers are now perceived as having replaced leaning on brooms with playing solitaire or minesweeper. The story provides coverage of both sides of the issue, noting that playing solitaire (or other games) may provide workers with a way to burn off some stress, but that this kind of activity is likely to be perceived as time wasting. My favorite bit (especially as April 15th draws ever closer) is where the author notes that fifty percent of the time an IRS employee is on the computer they are playing games, shopping online or gambling."

Comments

when SE/Linux takes over the wooorld

[lkcl]

... this will no longer be a problem.

lock down the machine: ban games, and any other apps which are not "approved".

oh, darn. it's a windows-related article. *thinks*... let's start again.

Subject: when SE/Linux takes over the wooorld...

this will no longer be a problem...

taskings...

[trifster]

this is a simple problem. give them more work. they don't do the work fire them. See, when I have a shitload to do, there is no time for solitare, slashdot, etc. More work will equal less screwing off.

Thus they should all have MSCE..

[kn0tw0rk]

as every one knows that MSCE = Minesweeper Solitare Certified Expert