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Swastikas don't make a friendly work environment
Posted by Fired Fred on July 27, 2007 4:29 PM
When did Connecticut become an outpost of the Third Reich? I know they tax the hell out of people who live there, but government employees usually try to downplay any overt connections to pure concentrated evil.
Not Craig Whitcomb. He thought it would be just peachy keen to have an employee redecorate the workspace of another worker with the next level in harassing someone over hailing from the land of great beer and drool-worthy automobiles...
Town officials said Whitcomb ordered a parks department worker to paint a swastika on the desk of another worker.The employee who did the actual painting got a letter of reprimand. Craig picked up a different letter from the city of Greenwich - a 'see ya, don't wanna be ya' type of letter.
"This individual is a second level supervisor. It's up to the town supervisors to set an appropriate tone for town operations. This incident certainly failed that test," First Selectman Jim Lash said Thursday.
Whitcomb had been accused of harassing Otto Lauersdorf, a marine division foreman, about his German heritage and Lauersdorf's union had filed a grievance on June 7.