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Yet Another Way Not To Help Your Career
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Monday, January 22, 2007
9:07:00 AM EST
Hearing Nothing at the moment.
This is possibly a classic of the form:
An administrative judge has denied unemployment benefits to a woman who was fired from her job for keeping a journal detailing her efforts to avoid work.
Emmalee Bauer, 25, of Elkhart, was employed by the Sheraton hotel company as a sales coordinator in Des Moines. While on the job, she kept a handwritten journal. A supervisor told her to stop writing on company time, but instead, Bauer wrote her journal, all 300 single-spaced pages, on her work computer.
In the journal, portions of which were introduced during a recent hearing regarding Bauer's request for unemployment, Bauer describes 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."
Yes, not much sympathy for this young lady. The judge didn't have much sympathy either, since the journal stands as testimony of her active avoidance of work. And if you've spent your entire work life actively avoiding doing what you've been paid to do, it seems reasonable not to get much in the way of unemployment afterward. Buy maybe I'm just old-fashioned that way. What do you think?
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9:07:00 AM EST
Hearing Nothing at the moment.
Yet Another Way Not To Help Your Career
This is possibly a classic of the form:
An administrative judge has denied unemployment benefits to a woman who was fired from her job for keeping a journal detailing her efforts to avoid work.
Emmalee Bauer, 25, of Elkhart, was employed by the Sheraton hotel company as a sales coordinator in Des Moines. While on the job, she kept a handwritten journal. A supervisor told her to stop writing on company time, but instead, Bauer wrote her journal, all 300 single-spaced pages, on her work computer.
In the journal, portions of which were introduced during a recent hearing regarding Bauer's request for unemployment, Bauer describes 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."
Yes, not much sympathy for this young lady. The judge didn't have much sympathy either, since the journal stands as testimony of her active avoidance of work. And if you've spent your entire work life actively avoiding doing what you've been paid to do, it seems reasonable not to get much in the way of unemployment afterward. Buy maybe I'm just old-fashioned that way. What do you think?
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I think, Oops, she's screwed for life..lol!
Seriously, I hope she learns from this mistake and somehow manages to find a decent job....one that doesn't involve pc's! lol!
Ste
1/22/07 1:32 PM
Yep.