Posted on 01/21/2007 4:52:37 AM PST by ShadowDancer
Boss Finds Worker's Journal About Avoiding Work
Woman's Unemployment Benefit Claim Denied
POSTED: 7:40 am EST January 21, 2007
DES MOINES, Iowa -- No work, no pay.
Unemployment benefits are being denied to an Iowa hotel worker who was fired for using her employer's computer to keep a journal of her efforts to avoid work.
A supervisor found the journal late last year and fired Emmalee Bauer, 25, for misuse of company time.
Bauer wrote a 300-page single-spaced pages, describing her efforts to avoid work.
"This typing thing seems to be doing the trick," she wrote. "It just looks like I am hard at work on something very important."
The journal was entered into evidence at a recent state hearing dealing with Bauer's request for unemployment benefits. Bauer testified the journal was intended to help her deal with anxiety and frustration.
Bauer also wrote: "I am only here for the money and, lately, for the printer access. I haven't really accomplished anything in a long while ... and I am still getting paid more than I ever have at a job before, with less to do than I have ever had before. It's actually quite nice when I think of it that way. I can shop online, play games and read message boards and still get paid for it."
Administrative Law Judge Susan Ackerman denied Bauer's request. The judge said the journal demonstrated Bauer's refusal to work, as well as her "amusement at getting away with it."
No worries Emalee, just apply for a government job next time, they've already printed that manual. They also have pensions for life after 20 or so years. Just think, you won't even have to show up after age 45.
was that Dawn Darwin?
This woman needed a government job. If everyone who did nothing were fired in local, state and federal offices, unemployment would go up by at least 5 points.
I take "Freep Breaks" all day long at my job and still have time to eat lunch, make coffee, chat with my cube mates, pay my bills, work on my website, and when there is actual work to do, I do that to.
And the Associated Press does what they can to avoid lucid writing.
My entire day is a FReep Break!
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