Probably a routine thing they do every other year or so, but this go-round should be good comedy. If I was there, I'd hide in the crowd and make sure the asshats could hear my snickering.

/DNRTFA

ouch, my head hurts.

1) Pot, meet kettle.

2) The blind leading the blind.

And countless other witty sayings.

I take it the Ironic tag didn't get the payoff. . .

/Tengo nada

I worked at a strip club and we had to take yearly sexual harassment training.

/no it wasn't a how to..

EmployeeOfTheMinute: Boobies

Dude, your account was created over a year ago. Have you not figured it out yet?

I'm an Illinois state employee. In October I had to take an annual ethics test. The certificate of completion is signed by Blago. I keep mine framed in my office

I have multiple Blago-signed ethics certificates. We don't have to do it anymore though, because we only use state funds, we're not employed by the state.

I got a copy of a section of the speech.

"They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way"

I dunno, seems pretty inspiring to me.

Mistah Scrotie: I'm an Illinois state employee. In October I had to take an annual ethics test. The certificate of completion is signed by Blago. I keep mine framed in my office

That is awesome

/and a keeper!

They could really learn something from those higher-ups about ethical treatment of humans and certain interpersonal relationship issues affecting Illinoisians and Americans alike.

"Governor BluesCluesovich must resign!"

Tommy Moo: EmployeeOfTheMinute: Boobies

Dude, your account was created over a year ago. Have you not figured it out yet?

Dude, he thinks it's fun to go fart in other people cubicles. I assume he thinks this is funny as well.

SharkTrager: Tommy Moo: EmployeeOfTheMinute: Boobies

Dude, your account was created over a year ago. Have you not figured it out yet?

Dude, he thinks it's fun to go fart in other people cubicles. I assume he thinks this is funny as well.

It's MUCH funnier to fart in an empty elevator and send it to a a different floor.

Ethics are only for the little people

SharkTrager: Tommy Moo: EmployeeOfTheMinute: Boobies

Dude, your account was created over a year ago. Have you not figured it out yet?

Dude, he thinks it's fun to go fart in other people cubicles. I assume he thinks this is funny as well.

We have a winner...

"Back in the day" when I was part of a major financial company, we had to "pass" those stupid "corporate ethics" seminars and on-line courses. Waste of farkin' time, but they help the company cover its own ass ...

moar funny pictures

/approves.

Mistah Scrotie: I'm an Illinois state employee. In October I had to take an annual ethics test. The certificate of completion is signed by Blago. I keep mine framed in my office

This. We have fun stamping "void" on them.

Still, obviously he didn't complete the training himself, or learn from it, or he would have realized he can only sell the seat for a max of $75.

too sad to even think about. Ethics seems to be the name of a one way street in most corporate and many government officials.

itazurakko: Mistah Scrotie: I'm an Illinois state employee. In October I had to take an annual ethics test. The certificate of completion is signed by Blago. I keep mine framed in my office

This. We have fun stamping "void" on them.

Still, obviously he didn't complete the training himself, or learn from it, or he would have realized he can only sell the seat for a max of $75.

I hate that test. I hate it even more because even though I am a state employee (a grad student who TAs at a university) absolutely none of the material applies.

Can't make things like this up.
/Too Funny

Why is it every time someone with clout gets in trouble for unethical behavior, the rank and file has to hear a lecture and jump through some hoops?

Helios1182: I hate that test. I hate it even more because even though I am a state employee (a grad student who TAs at a university) absolutely none of the material applies.

Yeah. I'm not exactly high enough ranking to bribe, myself. Also we get in trouble if we don't take 30 minutes to complete the thing (they want to be sure we read it, I guess) so everyone opens it, does a few screens, eats lunch/plays some tetris, then finishes.

The first year they came out with it it was trivial to cheat on, which just made it all the more hilarious.

Aunt Crabby: Why is it every time someone with clout gets in trouble for unethical behavior, the rank and file has to hear a lecture and jump through some hoops?

Crap rolls downhill. Such is the way of the world.

Son of Thunder: Crap rolls downhill. Such is the way of the world.

Too much fiber in that crap, then. Crap should stick to whomever it's thrown at.

fernanernie: I worked at a strip club and we had to take yearly sexual harassment training.

/no it wasn't a how to..

Dude, I'd be volunteering at that seminar left and right. . .

/Bouncer, DJ, Tits or GTFO?

Mistah Scrotie: I'm an Illinois state employee. In October I had to take an annual ethics test. The certificate of completion is signed by Blago. I keep mine framed in my office

Same here, posted on the wall of my office.

/Grad student too

Looks like Subby needs to attend a seminar on the presumption of innocence.

While I'm aware that Wharrblago is about as innocent as OJ, we should not be so quick to judge him until he is proven guilty in a court of law.

I worked at Boeing for a short while after the CEO was busted for promoting a married woman because he was sleeping with her.

So the workers (no execs) had to attend mandatory ethics classes, and there were posters everywhere about how to report your coworkers for ethics violations like "stealing time" (taking long lunches etc.).

Single White Male: Looks like Subby needs to attend a seminar on the presumption of innocence.

While I'm aware that Wharrblago is about as innocent as OJ, we should not be so quick to judge him until he is proven guilty in a court of law.

Look how well that worked out for that cheating white chick.

The tree of liberty needs to be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots from time to time (to horribly misquote Thomas Jefferson), and the prick with the dead Nutria on his head deserves a summary execution for his actions.

Illinois state workers to take seminar on ethics. Yes Illinois workers. And yes, representatives from the Governor's office will be speaking


"Don't get caught. Any questions?"

When my wife worked as an educator for IDOC. They had to take an ethics exam every year. If you finished it to fast you were unethical.

globalwarmingpraiser: When my wife worked as an educator for IDOC. They had to take an ethics exam every year. If you finished it to fast you were unethical.

That's the one. They send nasty mail to your supervisor and you have to take a written version.

So, our supervisor just tells us, "hey, be sure you take 30 minutes, go eat lunch during or something." To say there is a level of cynicism around this thing from many levels above me would be an understatement.

itazurakko: globalwarmingpraiser: When my wife worked as an educator for IDOC. They had to take an ethics exam every year. If you finished it to fast you were unethical.

That's the one. They send nasty mail to your supervisor and you have to take a written version.

So, our supervisor just tells us, "hey, be sure you take 30 minutes, go eat lunch during or something." To say there is a level of cynicism around this thing from many levels above me would be an understatement.

Illinois, it has stupidity.

Aww, you guys don't know the best part of all this story. The part that makes the Irony tag spin on it's axis like a top.

This ethics exam everybody but the governor has to take was developed by an out-of-state consulting company in California. The company making the ethics exam is (by coincidence only, I'm sure) a major campaign contributor to the governor, which is why it got the contract over an in-state Illinois company that was lowest bidder and perfectly competent to do the work.

Top it off, one of the governor's assistant's relatives works for the California company. When this conundrum was brought up by newspaper reporters, the governor and staff denied knowing anything about the contract they signed with this company and said everything was George Ryan's fault.

It is an ethics test..... get it?!?!?!

Mistah Scrotie: I'm an Illinois state employee. In October I had to take an annual ethics test. The certificate of completion is signed by Blago. I keep mine framed in my office

That would be Exhibit A in my defense.

All politicians are lying, cheating, bastards. If you think Blegojevich is the only one you are a moron.

The US Senate stood up and applauded Ted Stevens after he was convicted of corruption charges, yet they have a problem with a guy with an impeccable record? Please. You people are a bunch of pussies.

My hat is off to Rod Blegojevich for standing up to you pussies. That he has the balls to hang in there is proof enough to me that he's worth far more than all the other dickheads combined.

Degenz: All politicians are lying, cheating, bastards. If you think Blegojevich is the only one you are a moron.

what he said. They're not coming down on him because he's corrupt. They're coming down on him because he got caught and they have to look like they disapprove.

Not that I applaud him for standing up to people or anything, he's still a corrupt tool. Just one more in a whole stand of em.

One hand clapping.

Degenz: weak troll, unless you are Rod himself. Since he's essentially under house arrest now, not impossible he's passing the time on FARK.

Stories like these make me happy The Daily Show is coming back from vacation tomorrow.

I guess that this no longer applies to Dan Rostenkowski, since he is both out of office and also out of jail!

/wiki says he was a product of the Cook County political machine

Let me explain the connection of Rostenkowski to Blagoyevich. Republican Michael Flanagan ended up getting the seat previously held by Rostenkowski. It was Rod Blagoyevich who defeated Flanagan to take that seat previously held by Rostenkowski.

/good old C(r)ook County

Don't worry, obama is completely free from the corruption that is Chicago politics.

Boobies

In 2007 I kept putting off my State of Illinois On-line Ethics Training (probably tm) until it got to the point that I couldn't take it, so HR had a melt-down. End result? I had to sign a form that I would be "ethical" and was given a xeroxed packet of information. Less painful than taking the ethics course.

I'm such a lucky guy, I get to do ethics training every year for both the state and the City of Chicago. Thank the lord I have Blago and Daley for inspiration. And a few good laughs.

I once worked for a Union that had a boss teach a course on sexual harassment. He earlier almost got a woman raped that worked with him.