Clay County co-workers canned
County Employees Canned Over Too Much MySpace:
Two Clay County, Florida employees were fired for using MySpace at work while three were suspended and two others were reprimanded. The county has a no personal e-mail policy and the employees were using MySpace to get around it.
The managers found a handful of employees logging dozens of visits a day to websites that don’t relate to their work, especially MySpace.
“It’s almost two thousand times in the last 30 days, this employee,” Jett said, flipping through a log book with more than 60 pages, including line after line of recorded visits to MySpace.
“And if you’re on MySpace that much, then obviously, you can’t perform to the standard that we need you to perform to,” Jett said.
He says this heap of web hits clearly violates his office’s internet policy — which allowed just occasional personal use.
“If you’re going to be paid for eight hours, then you need to be working for eight hours,” Jett said.
The office now has a new policy in place: no personal use — no exceptions.
Software’s now been installed to block some sites and better track users.
And Jett is sending out a silent memo — through five empty desks where his suspended and forced-out employees used to sit.
The lesson here is obviously don’t MySpace at work. Besides do you really want your co-workers to see your MySpace profile?
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1 opinion for Clay County co-workers canned
BW
Feb 5, 2007 at 4:58 pm
That’s definitely a little too much… no, a LOT too much, to be on myspace during the work day.
However, I’ll just take this opportunity to give a little jab at some employers. It’s funny to read
‘“If you’re going to be paid for eight hours, then you need to be working for eight hours,” Jett said.’
from a job, when they really mean to say
“If you’re going to be paid for eight hours, then you need to be working for eight hours during the day, then checking your email and responding at night after dinner, and taking your blackberry and laptop with you on vacation so you can get some work in, as well as checking on things on the weekend.”
Employers never seem to mind that, do they? ;)
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