9 Virtual March Protesters were just relieved of their jobs here at my company.

[SirFishalot]

LMAO. I just got out of an emergency meeting with the sales manager here at work. He told us that he just fired 9 people in his department because he caught them participating in that farce today using company time and equipment. That is considered theft and thus leads to immediate termination at my company. He is able to monitor all of their keystrokes, pageviews, faxes, and phonecalls and they know it yet the dummies still did it.

Here are some of the highlights he gave us for just todays traffic.

-There were a total of around 1200 phone calls to Washington DC numbers today. We average 5 per day.

-One employee alone was responsible for over 300 of them.

-One lady faxed over 400 faxes to Washington numbers.

-There was over 5000 emails to .gov addresses from just that group.

-2 of them were caught actually running websites from here that are devoted to the protest today.

-3 of them hadn't even made one work related call today.

It was actually pretty funny to watch the guy walk them out because he walked in the office with two guys I've never seen before and asked for the following employees to stand up, then read off there names. He asked them to follow him up to the lunchroom for a meeting. The two guys followed them all up. A little later, one of those guys comes back with a supervisor and our IT guy. They took the personal effects from each of the cubes and put them on a cart. The IT guy took the hard drive from each of their computers also.

He told us in the meeting that the two guys were police officers who basically documented everything and escorted them off of the property with the warning that they would be charged with trespassing if they step foot back on the property.

Looks they will have lots of time to protest now. LOL

Dummies.

[texson66]

Hope you posted from home!

[wardaddy]

The difference is we are right and they are not.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

What are the chances that a lunatic teacher in Boston used his school computer today and stole time and resources from his employer?

It would be a very good bet. IMO.

In his Student's names perhaps?

[fivetoes]

Check this out.

[RandallFlagg]

LOL!

[Madame Dufarge]

Does anyone remember that nitwit from the South Carolina Dept. of Transportation who was challenging us and telling us how smart he was? A few phone calls and they fired his rear end. I love it whan a plan comes together.

I remember it.

It's right up there on the "Fond Memories-O-Meter" with my first puppy.

[Tench_Coxe]

Actually, its not quite the same thing. If the company is typical, there are probably policies regarding political activity. Employees are considered representatives of the company they work for, and the employees may be construed as acting on the company's behalf in politicking. That can have legal ramifications for the company.

Violation of the company's usage policy for computers is another issue. The policy is in place for legal reasons so that the most egregious violators are disciplined.

[twntaipan]

Better still, what are the chances that liberal teachers in the public schools threatened their students with a failing grade if they didn't compose email and send them to the Virtual March?

[Ladysmith]

Thought you might find this interesting. Nothing like fighting the war even from within your own business.

[The Coopster]

Unless you live in Indiana or a similar state, which is Hire/Fire at will. On every application it states that the employer or employee may terminate the employment for ANY reason whatsoever with no notice (as long as Fed Discrimination laws aren't being broken). Many states are this way for exactly this reason. If that is the case, these people don't have jack.

And it doesn't matter if the co never fired anyone before for this. If the idiots can't prove that anyone else had been caught for similar infractions and not fired, then again, they don't have jack.

[TLBSHOW]

William Rivers Pitt is a American Traitor.

[RobRoy]

>>Are you on FR at work? If so, what is the difference?<<

Quantity.

Everyone has had a conversation at the water cooler from time to time, but if you hang around there all day, it's bad form. And that doesn't even address the use of the phones for long distance calls.

[RobRoy]

>>Are you on company time right now??<<

It's all about quantity, my friend.

[RobRoy]

>>Like I posted before, this company BETTER have a long history of firing people for this. <<

IF not, well, all history starts SOMEWHERE...

[sit-rep]

BTTT!!!!!!!!!

[RobRoy]

>>Two words you will here:
Malicious termination<<

Here are some more you will here: No war in Iraq.

I take them all equally seriesly.

[RobRoy]

I finally got to your post 102 and got the eerie feeling that you lost your job today...

[Jhoffa_]

BWAHAHHAHA!! Fantastic!

I am so glad to see these worms being held to account for their fraud and theft.

HEY DU'ERS, Are you reading this? BWAHAHAHAH!! BWAHAHAHHA!

[RobRoy]

>>You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, jerk.<<

And now I am even more suspicious...

[Centurion2000]

No, these people may not have a claim of a Federal Civil Rights lawsuit, but a jury may well award them damages

Hit men are cheaper than lawyers ....