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Judges Rule Google Search by Employer Not Illegal
An anonymous reader passed us a link to an Ars Technica article about a failed lawsuit over a Google search. A federal circuit court of appeals has upheld the original ruling against David Mullins, who claimed that Googling his name constituted ex parte communications prior to firing him. "Through a series of events, Mullins' employer found that he had misused his government vehicle and government funds for his own purposes — such as sleeping in his car and falsifying hotel documents to receive reimbursements, withdrawing unauthorized amounts of cash from the company card, and traveling to destinations sometimes hundreds of miles away from where he was supposed to be ... Mullins' supervisor provided a 23-page document listing 102 separate instances of misconduct. Mullins took issue with a Google search that Capell performed just before authorizing his firing. During this Google search, Capell found that Mullins had been fired from his previous job at the Smithsonian Institution and had been removed from Federal Service by the Air Force."
This is textbook Democrat. Next thing, he'll be on 60 minutes, crying about how he was "owed" these things because of the terrible conditions he worked in. This guy needs to work in a tollbooth, or scrubbing dishes. Or serving fries at McDonald's. He apparently has the ability to talk his way into a good job, and then doesn't want to do the job when he gets there. It's typical of what Democrats crave to create in this society. They want a free lunch from the government. They want to rob from the rich to pay the disenfranchised.
I call bullshit on this. A nice apartment in Manhattan costs a lot more then $1200/mo. I mean I can get a crappy studio in SF for about that, livable apartments start at $1600/mo and nice apartments are about $2000/mo.
As for living comfortably on $1300/mo, assuming your bringing home $2500/mo and spending $1200/mo on rent, again I call bullshit. I mean most people have the standard bills; power, gas, internet, phone, cell phone. All told that runs about $200/mo. Then you have food, eating on the cheap probably runs another $50/wk. So we are down to $900/mo which you claim is enough to invest, entertain yourself and still have cash at the end of the month. A night of entertainment, assuming dinner and drinks with friends is going to run about $100 (if you don't have a date along). So if you are a hermit living in Manhattan you can survive on $2500/mo. Personally that doesn't sound fun to me.