Workers At Ministry Of NSFW Forced To Work From Home

“I can’t even get my staff together in one room, let alone hold a meeting with different groups.” complained a section supervisor.

Jerusalem, September 7 – Employees at the government ministry handling all not-safe-for-work materials on the internet remain unable to perform their jobs at their ministry desks, as the documents and information in which they traffic are automatically not safe for a work environment. Consequently, said a union spokesman, they must work from home, a necessity that has hampered collaborative projects and stymied liaisons with other government bodies.

“It is unreasonable to expect people to work under such conditions,” argued Tzin Zoor, a representative of the Government Workers Association. “Our organization stands behind the Ministry of NSFW employees one hundred percent, and are considering a work stoppage across all government ministries as a demonstration of that support.” Zoor conceded that it was unusual for his organization to try getting its members to work more, and doubly unusual for the aggrieved workers not to be able to make their participation in a strike demonstrable.

“I just want to be able to go in and do my job,” said one worker who spoke on condition of anonymity. “But I can’t, because everything that crosses my desk is NSFW, except maybe procedural stuff and materials from other ministries or offices. So I just sit in a coffee shop across the street from my office all day and use their wifi to get some of my work done. It’s not sustainable. I need a stable office environment.”

Projects and interfaces with other entities have suffered. “I can’t even get my staff together in one room, let alone hold a meeting with different groups.” complained a section supervisor named Oded. “And on those rare occasions that we can arrange to meet elsewhere, our materials have to be excluded from presentations, reports, and the protocols of the meetings. Nothing ever gets done around here. Meaning, around there, because I can’t be in the office right now.”

Several attempts to reform or restructure the ministry to allow for more efficient handling of the materials have failed. Orthodox lawmakers have opposed even discussing such subjects in the plenum, causing difficulty for legislative efforts, and the clout of socially conservative forces within the Office of the Prime Minister has prevented the sweeping action necessary to change the state of affairs. Opposition figures through several governments have promised to overhaul the Ministry of NSFW’s mandate, but have yet to win power.

In the meantime, NSFW ministry workers have found other things to occupy them. “At least my network at home doesn’t have all the filters they put on the one at work, so I can surf the web freely,” said Oded.