I think the world has gone crazy!
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Bureaucrat fired for looking at pornography on work computer gets rehired
09/09/2011 8:00:00 AM
by Monica Bugajski
A Citizen and Immigration Canada senior bureaucrat fired in November of 2009 for spending the majority of his work hours surfing the Internet for porn recently got his job back by arguing that he had been bored and hadn't had enough work.
After an internal investigation found 335 sexual images on his work computer, Franklin Andrews, a policy advisor at Citizenship and Immigration Canada, admitted that between September and November of 2008 and between May and August of 2009 he spent 50%-100% of his paid time at work finding and looking at pornographic pictures. Consequently, he was fired.
But after appealing to the decision and basing his defense on the grounds that he was bored and didn't have a sufficient amount of work to keep him busy, the Public Service Labour Relations Board reinstated his position in early August.
The labour board decided that because Andrews' mangers had failed to manage him, because Andrews had been a government employee, with an otherwise clear record, for such a lengthy period of time, and because Andrews had freely admitted guilt, less "heavy-handed" forms of discipline, like rehabilitation and correction, would be more appropriate.
Now, I'm not exactly sure how or why the labour board found any rationale in Andrews' argument because, to me, his defense makes a mockery of not only the civil service but also his co-workers.
While Andrews was twiddling his thumbs (let's hope that's all he was doing) and looking at porn out of "boredom," his colleagues were working overtime. So one could deduce that his colleagues were doing the work that Andrews should have been doing had his superiors managed him better, as the labour board claims they should have done.
But since when do senior-level bureaucrats require such supervision and management that they cannot be held responsible for making proper use of their own time?
Shouldn't we be trying to weed out these kinds of inept individuals?
What I don't understand is why the labour board would want a "worker" like Andrews back. I don't care how long he's had the position, if someone admits to spending the majority of seven months looking at porn while he is being paid to do work, that person should absolutely not get his job back.
There are so many more deserving and proactive individuals who could fill his position. It's mind-boggling that the labour board would choose to reinstate someone who is willing to brazenly waste taxpayer's resources and shamelessly ruin the reputations of other capable and hardworking civil servants.
http://news.sympatico.ca/oped/coffee-talk/senior_bureaucrat_fired_for_looking_at_pornography _on_work_computer_rehired/b6942b90
Did you see this?
Bureaucrat fired for looking at pornography on work computer gets rehired
09/09/2011 8:00:00 AM
by Monica Bugajski
A Citizen and Immigration Canada senior bureaucrat fired in November of 2009 for spending the majority of his work hours surfing the Internet for porn recently got his job back by arguing that he had been bored and hadn't had enough work.
After an internal investigation found 335 sexual images on his work computer, Franklin Andrews, a policy advisor at Citizenship and Immigration Canada, admitted that between September and November of 2008 and between May and August of 2009 he spent 50%-100% of his paid time at work finding and looking at pornographic pictures. Consequently, he was fired.
But after appealing to the decision and basing his defense on the grounds that he was bored and didn't have a sufficient amount of work to keep him busy, the Public Service Labour Relations Board reinstated his position in early August.
The labour board decided that because Andrews' mangers had failed to manage him, because Andrews had been a government employee, with an otherwise clear record, for such a lengthy period of time, and because Andrews had freely admitted guilt, less "heavy-handed" forms of discipline, like rehabilitation and correction, would be more appropriate.
Now, I'm not exactly sure how or why the labour board found any rationale in Andrews' argument because, to me, his defense makes a mockery of not only the civil service but also his co-workers.
While Andrews was twiddling his thumbs (let's hope that's all he was doing) and looking at porn out of "boredom," his colleagues were working overtime. So one could deduce that his colleagues were doing the work that Andrews should have been doing had his superiors managed him better, as the labour board claims they should have done.
But since when do senior-level bureaucrats require such supervision and management that they cannot be held responsible for making proper use of their own time?
Shouldn't we be trying to weed out these kinds of inept individuals?
What I don't understand is why the labour board would want a "worker" like Andrews back. I don't care how long he's had the position, if someone admits to spending the majority of seven months looking at porn while he is being paid to do work, that person should absolutely not get his job back.
There are so many more deserving and proactive individuals who could fill his position. It's mind-boggling that the labour board would choose to reinstate someone who is willing to brazenly waste taxpayer's resources and shamelessly ruin the reputations of other capable and hardworking civil servants.
http://news.sympatico.ca/oped/coffee-talk/senior_bureaucrat_fired_for_looking_at_pornography _on_work_computer_rehired/b6942b90
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