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Iowa is full of weird firings
Posted by Fired Fred on May 29, 2007 6:34 PM
It's bad enough that one fired employee was letting inmates out of jail early. Maybe she thought she was helping with the issue of prison overpopulation. Imagine if she gets a job at some maximum security federal prison. Charlie Manson wouldn't have to worry about parole hearings again.
Beverley Finnell got fired after letting a few inmates go free early. She's not the only person to get turned loose from the public service gravy train in Iowa.
One guy was fired for going nuts at a high school football game, where he cursed out one coach and threatened another one. Surprise, surprise, the guy had a track record of being an abusive ass. Maybe he was remotely channeling the spirit of Bobby Knight.
They canned a mailman for reading people's newspapers and magazines. I thought that was a job perk. Who knew? Another guy who was a corrections officer got fired for entering an improper business relationship with a former inmate. What's that mean, they were dealing drugs? Going house to house with Kirby vacs?
The best one was a Department of Homeland Security screener manager, who quit before his supervisors could get around to firing him...
Michael Woods of Mount Vernon, who resigned from the Department of Homeland Security, where he worked as a manager of airport screeners. The resignation came after his superiors demanded that he write letters explaining why he kept a bottle of "Whoop Ass" energy drink on his desk.Sounds like the terrorists won to me.