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Woman Jailed For Starting Office Fire To Leave Work Early

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-this-job-and-spark-it dept.

A Florida woman was sentenced to nine months in jail, followed by five years of probation, for starting an office fire so she could get out of work early. From the article: "Pasco sheriff's investigators said Michelle Perrino, 40, started a fire at Bayonet Point Oxygen on May 12, 2009. Perrino drew suspicion when she mentioned the fire's origin — a filing cabinet — during an employee meeting. Employees had not been told where the fire started." I hope she had the good sense to start the fire on Friday so she could have a long weekend.

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  1. Case of the Fridays by Gothmolly · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, studies HAVE shown that if you do this sort of thing on a Friday, there's less chance of an incident.

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    1. Re:Case of the Fridays by mnmn · · Score: 4, Funny



      She should get....

      (you know what) ...fired.

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    2. Re:Case of the Fridays by EMH_Mark3 · · Score: 3, Funny

      YEAAAAAHHH!!

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  2. Crazy... by Arancaytar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If she hates her job that much, why doesn't she just quit?

    And then set the place on fire?

  3. Doesn't work for IT by mikael_j · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sadly starting a fire or tripping a breaker won't work very well for anyone in IT, they'd just be stuck at work over the weekend making sure everything was working (or in the case of a fire, building new servers with no time to sleep or rest).

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  4. Work avoidance is a serious problem. by selven · · Score: 4, Funny

    Work avoidance is a very serious problem, guys. Did you know that about 40% of sick days are taken on a Monday or a Friday?

    1. Re:Work avoidance is a serious problem. by hedwards · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Contrary to popular opinion, being sick of work is a legitimate reason to take a sick day. There's numerous legitimate illnesses that come from working too many days without a three day weekend or vacation.

      While, mandating a 6 week paid vacation for every employee is, in my opinion, going too far, it's absurd that there isn't a legislated right to at least a week or two of paid vacation. Productivity would most likely even go up were that to be enacted.

  5. Re:What? by CaptSlaq · · Score: 5, Funny

    News for nerds? Stuff that matters? This is not front-page material.

    They must have taken her stapler.

  6. Bayonet Point Oxygen? by LordKronos · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wait. So as if her action alone wasn't stupid enough, she started a fire at Bayonet Point Oxygen? An oxygen supply company? There's a reason they tell people on oxygen not to smoke.

  7. There's a backstory by digitalhermit · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's always a back story. Did anyone ask her about the frequent moves she's had to endure? First on the Third Floor, then she got moved to the Second Floor, then to the lobby, then to the basement. And no one even mentioned the payroll issues she has been having. They stopped her paychecks for some reason. The last straw was probably the stapler incident...

    1. Re:There's a backstory by stewbacca · · Score: 4, Funny

      And she was led to believe there would be cake.

  8. I'll burn the place down by UninformedCoward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think you have my stapler...

  9. Re:You're fired! by Ipeunipig · · Score: 3, Funny

    A heated debate?