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| Colorado DOT employee being investigated for email showing O and Sarah |
| 2009-12-31 |
| At least one Colorado Department of Transportation employee is being investigated for sending an inappropriate email featuring President Barack Obama and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. When we got our hands on the email Tuesday, we immediately contacted CDOT. They tell us at least one employee could be fired for this. "We're taking this very seriously," said Mindy Crane, Spokesperson for CDOT. The attachment is a photo-shopped picture of President Barack Obama shining the shoes of former Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The sender of the email is a 73 year-old CDOT supervisor. |
| Posted by:lord garth |
| #8 if he is smart he can get placed on administrative leave with pay for a while The Colorado DOT is in an unfortunate position also. Surely this is not the only fellow who has sent non work email with a non work attachment during biz hours. Almost every large company acknowledged that employees use their computers for some non work functions and, as long as it is minor (say done during lunch), that there should be no penalty. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2009-12-31 13:47 |
| #7 sounds like a 1st amendment issue as well. |
| Posted by: 746 2009-12-31 12:51 |
| #6 I wonder what would happen to him if it was the other way around? He'd be on the NEA call-down list, of artists rallied to support The One. If he could learn a bit of graphic design, he could follow in Shep Fairey's footsteps. |
| Posted by: lex 2009-12-31 12:20 |
| #5 He claims to be good with a mop too. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2009-12-31 12:17 |
| #4 President Barack Obama shining the shoes of former Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin pretty obviously that's a photoshop. Shining shoes is hard work |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-12-31 09:24 |
| #3 I think Karl Rove II (Rahm Emanuel)planted this to distract from the Christmas Bomber disaster. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2009-12-31 07:23 |
| #2 I wonder what would happen to him if it was the other way around? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-12-31 04:49 |
| #1 If he is 73 as stated he won't give a sh#t. He's probably been there 45 years minimum. While it's probably against State policy for use of State computers I suspect it really comes down to NO sense of humor on the part of the Colorado liberals in CDOT and the State Capitol. |
| Posted by: tipover 2009-12-31 01:26 |