Chief IT Officer for City of LA to Employee: Stop Streaming the Olympics at Work

Yeah…

I’m just gonna post this and let you go nuts in the com­ments sec­tion, since the real­ity is it’s either that or chal­lenge any of the AFSCME Brigade on the port side of Ched­dar­sphere to explain how this is okay for munic­i­pal employ­ees when the folks in the pri­vate sec­tor would have been sacked.

And like they’d answer that challenge.

The Olympics are so pop­u­lar at City Hall that Los Ange­les work­ers are being urged to pull the plug or risk a munic­i­pal com­puter meltdown.

Randi Levin, chief tech­nol­ogy offi­cer for California’s largest city, sent an email Tues­day to thou­sands of city employ­ees, ask­ing them to stop watch­ing the games online at work, accord­ing to the Los Ange­les Times (http://lat.ms/OAuDVx ).

“We are expe­ri­enc­ing a high vol­ume of traf­fic due to peo­ple watch­ing the Olympics online” and it is affect­ing city oper­a­tions, Levin said.

Appar­ently city employ­ees got the message.

Inter­net traf­fic on the city’s com­puter sys­tem had returned to nor­mal Wednes­day, said Mark Wolf, an exec­u­tive offi­cer with the city’s infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy agency.

“It had spiked about 20 per­cent,” Wolf told The Asso­ci­ated Press. “It was not enough to impact busi­ness appli­ca­tions, but it was enough to give us a nudge to see what it was. We looked into it and saw it was attrib­uted to the Olympics video.”

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