Allegations of employee misconduct are nothing new at the Environmental Protection Agency. It’s been well established that its employees have been found watching porn at work and faked actually showing up to the office. Now, a new report by the Inspector General (IG) accuses the EPA of creating a “culture of complacency” by refusing to take actions against employees clearly breaking the rules.

It took the agency 11 months to fire an executive who, instead of doing his job at the EPA during work hours was working in a paid, private sector job. During his “moonlighting” he received an award for his work–and a $33,928 extra payday.

The two employees found watching porn at work (while earning $120,000 per year) continued to receive their paychecks for a year while on “paid administrative leave” before any action was taken to fire them. One employee got to retire (and continue to collect retirement benefits) and the other remains on paid leave.

In fact, the agency is currently paying eight employees accused of misconduct to sit at home and do nothing while the agency investigates their cases–costing taxpayers over a million dollars.

This isn’t the first time the IG has highlighted the EPA’s inability to respond quickly to employee misconduct–a 2007 report documented similar widespread problems.

Instead of updated the disciplinary handbook (which hasn’t been revised since 1998), EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy “took care” of the issue by sending out a memo to EPA employees asking them to come forward when they suspect their coworkers of wasting money, committing fraud, etc. Problem solved.