« When we said we'd treat you like family, we meant the Sopranos | Main | You too can be a Wikipedia theology expert »

Wal-Mart fires eavesdropping tech, doesn't thank him for shopping

Posted on March 6, 2007 5:20 PM
The Feds are very interested in why a computer systems techie working for Wal-Mart just happened to be recording phone calls and picking up on pager and text messages to a reporter named Michael Barbaro with the New York Times.

The Times was probably happier than a paparazzi blundering into a newly-bald Britney to have this little scandal become unearthed. Politically the two couldn't be any farther apart without being on different planets...
Mona Williams, a spokeswoman for Wal-Mart, which is based in Bentonville, Ark., said the company fired the technician and a supervisor yesterday. A third manager in Wal-Mart’s information technology group was disciplined. Ms. Williams declined to identify the technician or his supervisors.

H. Lee Scott Jr., Wal-Mart’s chief executive, called the chief executive of The New York Times, Janet L. Robinson, early yesterday to explain the situation and apologize, Ms. Williams said.

Ms. Williams added that she contacted Mr. Barbaro and personally apologized to him, as well.
I just know the Wal-Martians would rather wash down a bowl of ground glass with battery acid than be put in a position of apologizing to the Paper of Record.

, , ,
| Comments (1)

digg this! | add to del.icio.us | Reddit | Furl

Comments (1)

debra houston

I was fired from wal-mart and never given test results

Posted on: May 27, 2007 6:34 AM

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)