Federal Bracketology

There's a nice little piece in Slate today on the death of paper brackets in office NCAA basketball tournament polls. It's by Dan Kois, who in his career as a film executive and literary agent devoted countless hours to running such pools. An actual federal-related quote from the story:

But what truly ate up my time were the brackets. Oh, God, the brackets. My life became an endless torrent of paper. The brackets carpeted the floor, festooned the couch, covered the computer keyboard. We received them by e-mail as PDFs, Word documents, or Excel spreadsheets. We received brackets via fax, including a handwritten one on U.S. Senate letterhead with a note claiming that "No taxpayer dollars were wasted on the creation of this bracket." And we got brackets in the mail, one of which arrived in an envelope reading: "ATTENTION FEDERAL POST OFFICE EMPLOYEE: ILLEGAL GAMBLING DOCUMENTS ENCLOSED."

Over here in the private sector, productivity takes a bit of a dent every year during March Madness. That has me wondering: Is the same true in the federal world, or are people too sqeamish about gambling in the office on Uncle Sam's dime? Anyone care to enlighten me (and others)? That's what the "Comments" button below is for.