Fired for Solitare At Work 680
schlick writes "The Associated Press is carrying a story about a NYC employee fired after Mayor Michael Bloomberg noticed a game of solitare on the employee's desktop at work." From the article: "Greenwood, who earned $27,000 a year and had worked in the office for six years, said in a telephone interview that he limited his play time to his one-hour lunch or during quick breaks when he needed a moment of distraction. 'It wasn't like I spent hours and hours a day playing, because I had plenty to do,' Greenwood said. 'If I had been working at something exhaustively for two hours, I might get a cup of coffee and play for a minute but then go right back to my work.'"
If they enforced this (Score:5, Funny)
strangely quiet (Score:5, Funny)
only 27k? (Score:1, Funny)
not first but still - a question (Score:3, Funny)
Bloomberg... (Score:5, Funny)
Back in the day of Windows 3.1... (Score:5, Funny)
/emo (Score:1, Funny)
Solitare used to be my wallpaper. (Score:4, Funny)
As an act of civil disobedience I made solitare my wall paper, and removed all my icons.
And the next story... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Only a few minutes? (Score:3, Funny)
You mean "assume", right? Perhaps it's `creative dismissal`. If I'd been fired for playing a game at lunchtime you can bet I'd be hiring a solicitor right now. Well, as soon as I finish this level...
Re:If they enforced this (Score:4, Funny)
soduko
It's everywhere (Score:3, Funny)
Yup, they had left their Windows Solitaire game up on the screen.
Solitaire Schmolitaire (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just because you can, doesn't mean you should (Score:3, Funny)
Many entry-level retail employees in NYC make $27,000/yr.
Re:Only a few minutes? (Score:2, Funny)
Not every manager is a good one.
I was working as a bicycle mechanic, once upon a time, and was 10 hours into a 12 hour day without a break. Nothing. No coffee, no lunch. Nothing. Completley illegal as it happens. It was spring tune up rush and I was willing to bend to meet the labor demand. I was young and stupid. Ya know, like an EA programmer.
Someone handed me a Pepsi and I opened it up and started to take a drink and the owner walked up to me and said, "You know you can hold that can in one hand and turn a wrench with the other."
Not every manager is a good manager.
He never got the chance to fire me. I was gone before that.
KFG
Re:Bloomberg... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Delete the games (Score:3, Funny)
For someone with 6 years of Solitare experience?
Re:If they enforced this (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Another reason to smoke (Score:3, Funny)
Re:If they enforced this (Score:3, Funny)
Re:A similar story... (Score:4, Funny)
A new manager is hired to bring an underproducing office up to speed. He decides that he must fire somebody on the first day to show that he means business. While walking through the office, he spots a man leaning against the wall, not doing anything. He is in a room full of workers and so decides that this is the perfect way to start.
"You! How much do you make a week?", he bellowed at the slacker.
"About $300," came the reply.
The manager pulls out his wallet, peels off three hundred dollar bills, and throws them at the man.
"Here's your money. Now get out and don't come back!"
Feeling pretty good about the firing, he glared around room. "What was this man's job?", he asked.
From the back of the room came the reply: "Pizza delivery man"
Re:Another reason to smoke (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Not nearly as bad as... (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, you might both end up in the same hospital ward coughing your lungs up. That's a fantastic bonding experience.
Re:If they enforced this (Score:5, Funny)
Nobody gets fired for that!
Re:like a teenager and a car... (Score:1, Funny)
You misspelled hired.
Re:Terms of use (Score:1, Funny)
Oh, and don't act like you aren't the BOFH that opens up old network statistics charts or network snoops, pouring over them when the big boss comes in. "Sir, I'm tracking through some anomalous network activity our SOA layer got during last night's advertising during the Olympics opening ceremony."
Pfft, that's how I got rid of my last boss. "Oh, I'm just cleaning up all traces of the child porn you downloaded earlier"
I play Klondike... (Score:3, Funny)
Of course, if I get my work done for the day, then it's Warcraft time...
No, not on the Treo.
Re:Terms of use (Score:3, Funny)
'Hicks, how come you're not working.'
I'd go, 'There's nothing to do.'
'Well, you pretend like you're working.'
'Well, why don't you pretend I'm working? Yeah, you get paid more than me, you fantasise. Pretend I'm mopping. Knock yourself out. I'll pretend they're buying stuff; we can close up. I'm the boss now, you're fired. How's that? I'm on a fucking roll. We're all millionaires and you're dick. I'm pretending shit, I'm wacky, I can't be stopped.'
I don't know if I have the right attitude for the workplace.
Re:LOL (Score:4, Funny)
Regards,
Spelling nazi
Solitaire (Score:3, Funny)
One fine day, after installing Microsoft SMS 2.0, I wanted to try out the 'server licensing' feature; install software on each computer, tell SMS how many licenses you actually have, and it lets only that many copies run at a time, queues people up, and so on.
I decide to test it on Solitare; so I tell the thing that only one copy of sol.exe is allowed to run, fire a copy up on my desktop, try firing it up on my laptop, and sure enough, the laptop gets a message.
A few minutes later, over comes one of the Vice Presidents, asking me to kindly turn Solitare back on.