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City employee accused of surfing Web at work fired (1 Viewer)

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tecoyah said:
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Must be old news

When I was working, doing other than assigned tasks was tantamount to being fired:doh .
This is as it should be !
Is anyone suggesting otherwise ?
 
I am not even sure that i would give a warning
if an employee, that i am paying, is too stupid to realize they are wasting my time and money surfing the web, i would probably just fire them on the spot

work is for working
not surfing the web
not for solitaire, etc....
 
I wonder if the employee would have been fired for talking about sports, office gossip, politics, the weather or one of the thousands of other non-work things that folks used to do during their down time before the internet?
 
DeeJayH said:
I am not even sure that i would give a warning
if an employee, that i am paying, is too stupid to realize they are wasting my time and money surfing the web, i would probably just fire them on the spot

work is for working
not surfing the web
not for solitaire, etc....
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my job REQUIRES surfing the web, looking for various training techniques that would help to implement DPW policies in a much more efficient manner. Now, having said that, if I'm busted surfing the web, for other than that, and not on my break time, then I should be fired. But as more information, that can be utilized within the workplace, is found on the web, I do say the restrictions should be lessened, just a bit.
 
The first part of this is old news, it happened about 2 months ago when Mayor Bloomberg was taking a tour of an office, and walked past a guy sitting there playing solitaire. He just walked past, then as he was leaving, told the office head to fire the guy.

The part that I believe you're referring to is the decision of Joel Klein, the Chancellor of schools, to fire a School Analyst for web surfing at work. Unfortunately, thats not the only thing he did wrong.

Over 17 months, Choudhri was absent 33 times, late 49 times and left early 23 times.

Klein noted Choudhri was twice admonished not to use the Internet by supervisors and did so anyway.
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http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/68129.htm
 
RightatNYU said:
The first part of this is old news, it happened about 2 months ago when Mayor Bloomberg was taking a tour of an office, and walked past a guy sitting there playing solitaire. He just walked past, then as he was leaving, told the office head to fire the guy.

The part that I believe you're referring to is the decision of Joel Klein, the Chancellor of schools, to fire a School Analyst for web surfing at work. Unfortunately, thats not the only thing he did wrong.



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I would think if I worked for a city, any city, and the Mayor was going to tour my office I'd make darn certain I at least looked like I was working. Sounds to me he was terminated more for being stupid then playing cards.
 
Pacridge said:
I would think if I worked for a city, any city, and the Mayor was going to tour my office I'd make darn certain I at least looked like I was working. Sounds to me he was terminated more for being stupid then playing cards.
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Yea...Bloomberg became a billionaire by building up his business from the ground. The guy abhors inefficiency and has a pretty sharp temper. When he came to the office during the campaign to walk around, there sure as hell wasn't anyone playing solitaire. And for him, he draws a huge distinction between his money and city money. After the campaign was over, he had no problem doing the usual patronage things, getting people jobs etc., but only within his company or other private enterprises. He refused to give even a single city job to a person who wasn't eminently qualified for it. Wasting his money is one thing, wasting city dollars is another. He's got sense of ethics that some in politics would do well to emulate...
 
Simon W. Moon said:
I wonder if the employee would have been fired for talking about sports, office gossip, politics, the weather or one of the thousands of other non-work things that folks used to do during their down time before the internet?
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I think Simon makes the strongest point here.

I used to work for a high-tech company, that was looking into ways to make it's employees more productive. There have been studies made that have surprising results.

Though I'm not 100% certain of the exact numbers (my memory is faulty at best), it is estimated that if a company gets a good 3-4 hours of work out of an employee during a 7.5 hour work day, that is average. Cube farms prove to be the most difficult at getting production because of the white noise, and the availability to be disturbed because of the "open area."

The company that I worked for actually encouraged it's employees to work at home. The study concluded that the home worker was not only more apt at being the most productive, but it was found that they actually put in more hours then was expected.

Have both worked at home and in the office, I would agree.
 
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