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Fired for Solitare At Work

Posted by Zonk on from the tough-crowd dept.

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.'"

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  6. What the ... by ScrewMaster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ridicule? In other words, the FTC is planning on embarrassing spyware vendors and their customers? Yeah ... right. How about we forget "ridicule" and move on to "RICO". Now that might slow them down a little. At least, it might make U.S. vendors think twice about employing a spyware outfit. Won't do much good anywhere else though.

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