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February 10, 2006
You're fired
Holy schneikies, NYC Mayor Bloomberg is a hardass. Look at this!
Mayor Michael Bloomberg isn't playing games — after he saw a game of solitaire on a city employee's computer screen, he fired him.
The Republican mayor stopped by the city's legislative office in Albany a few weeks ago when he was visiting the state Capitol to hear the governor's State of the State address.
Office assistant Edward Greenwood IX was going over some papers at his desk as Bloomberg made the rounds with his photographer, greeting workers and posing for pictures. When the mayor reached him, Greenwood stood, they shook hands and the photographer snapped a photo.
But the eagle-eyed mayor — a billionaire former businessman with a certain idea of how offices should be run — noticed Greenwood's game of solitaire glowing on his screen. He said nothing about it to Greenwood but later told an aide to give him the ax.
That's pretty rough. It makes me wonder what sorts of computer games City of Chicago employees might be playing, and what kind of response Mayor Daley would have for an employee found to be indulging.
As for me, my workplace game of choice was Snood, an addiction I first picked up at my first ever paying job way back in 1997. Hot damn, I loved that game. And admittedly, I did play once or twice a day, and sometimes more if there was nothing doing. I mean, let's face it. If you were reading my blog back when I had a job, I wasn't exactly burning the midnight oil most of the time. I guess it's a good thing I don't work for Mayor Bloomberg!
Posted by oz115 at February 10, 2006 01:27 PM