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DC workers fired over porn at the office
Posted by Fired Fred on January 23, 2008 5:48 PM
Maybe the nine people booted out of DC city government had a short walk to the unemployment office, unless getting fired for watching naughty people do naughtier things on the taxpayer's dollar falls under "gross misconduct."
It doesn't sound like the Naughty Nine happened upon a popup or two by accident while looking for ways to cut crime rates and improve city services, by what the Washington City Paper said...
One fired employee, according to figures released at the press conference, racked up 48,002 hits on allegedly pornographic sites during 2007. That works out to about 200 hits per business day. Besides the nine fired, 32 more were reprimanded in a more than a dozen other agencies, including the police department, the D.C. Public Schools, and the Executive Office of the Mayor.Guess what the biggest surprise was? Not all the fired employees were guys, but the report doesn't say how many of each there were. Bummer. Here I thought the biggest scandal that could come out of DC this week would be if they hired Jim Fassel to coach the Redskins.
Tangherlini said thresholds were determined as to how many hits warranted termination versus other forms of punishment. About 20,000 hits for the year was considered sufficient grounds for immediate firing, which represents about 100 hits per working day. “That seemed to be a logical cutoff,� he said. Anything over 20 hits a day, he says, represented “something that’s no longer possibly accidental� and required a lesser sanction.