WhiskeyPapa
02-10-2006, 11:09 AM
LINKY (http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/mayor-sacks-worker-caught-playing-solitaire/2006/02/10/1139542406203.html)
PLAYING computer solitaire on the job has become one of the more common, if not stealthy, ways of passing time in the modern office.
But people who work for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg may want to think twice before playing the game.
Edward Greenwood IX was fired on January 30 from his job as an assistant in the city's lobbying office in Albany, after the Mayor spied the game on his computer screen during a January 4 visit to the state capital.
Mr Greenwood, 39, said he was dismissed with no notice and no severance pay after working there for six years.
He earned about $US27,000 a year for duties that included sending legislative bills to city agencies and copying and circulating office memos.
Mr Bloomberg confirmed on Thursday that Mr Greenwood was fired for playing solitaire, saying that city employees were not paid to play at the workplace.Honestly, I would have fired the guy just because he's 39 years old and only earning $27k per year. Crap, my son at 19 years old had a higher income.
PLAYING computer solitaire on the job has become one of the more common, if not stealthy, ways of passing time in the modern office.
But people who work for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg may want to think twice before playing the game.
Edward Greenwood IX was fired on January 30 from his job as an assistant in the city's lobbying office in Albany, after the Mayor spied the game on his computer screen during a January 4 visit to the state capital.
Mr Greenwood, 39, said he was dismissed with no notice and no severance pay after working there for six years.
He earned about $US27,000 a year for duties that included sending legislative bills to city agencies and copying and circulating office memos.
Mr Bloomberg confirmed on Thursday that Mr Greenwood was fired for playing solitaire, saying that city employees were not paid to play at the workplace.Honestly, I would have fired the guy just because he's 39 years old and only earning $27k per year. Crap, my son at 19 years old had a higher income.