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Hot damn: The Post says an employee in the city's Albany office was canned because Mayor Bloomberg saw solitaire on his computer! Of course, the Mayor's office claims that it was because there were budget cuts across the board and a job had to be eliminated in the 13-person office, but let's face it, that's a boring way to tell the story. Edward Greenwood (husband and father of one) was paid $30,000 to do aministrative work says that after Bloomberg had visited the offices last year, his boss had mentioned (though not to Greenwood) that the billionaire mayor was upset at seeing solitaire on a computer screen. While Greenwood says he did have that Microsoft Office necessity up, he insists that he was "running around" doing work. Office workers know that rule number one of the office computer is "Outlook is king!" - keep that up at all times. This is why disgruntled office workers turn to writing books about their annoying bosses - having a Word document open looks less suspicious. We bet the Mayor's office will make sure things like iTunes, AIM, and any non-government Internet surfing will remain off limits very soon!
Would the Mayor be against a desktop Zen garden?
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Which is Why I LOCK my screen when I leave my desk...
I'm sure it doesn't matter if this was a legitimate firing or not. This has lawsuit written all over it.
I wonder what Bloomberg would've done if he saw someone reading "Gothamist" during work!
I'm still waiting for some genius to build an app that skins AIM to look like a Word or Excel document. So necessary.
I used to work for the city (there's already restricted internet access) and the vast majority of my colleagues had no real jobs or duties and did indeed play solitaire all day -- it would be no bad thing to fire about 2/3 of the city workforce since so few of them do work of any kind.
I once asked the woman who sat behind me what her job was when not doing her nails or chatting on the phone (computer solitaire would have been far beyond her skills) and she just yelled, 'I don't need to tell you my job, I'm union.' Funny, so was I -- however, I got so bored and fed up with working there I quit. And it doesn't matter if you sue the city -- you'll never see a dime because so many of their lawyers are too lazy to bother filing anything on time and/or to show up to court, so your case will drag on and on for years.
I should really write a tell-all memoir.
You know, I have received emails from city government workers, but I assume they'd claim it was to find out about what the public is saying about them. Maybe the city is looking to see if there'd be public support for a panda bear bid.