"City must rehire a former police officer who was fired for making calls to a psychic hotline when it has been proven he didn't do it."

FTFY.

I bet one-off cases of inappropriate phone usage are a minor disciplinary offence in the police department, not an instant dismissal - so unless the guy had a list of previous disciplinary offences, he'd have won in court even if he had done it.

/ Yes, I know a lot of Americans are 'employees at will'. I bet he wasn't.
// The rest of the world laughs at 'employees at will'. I bet most Chinese workers have more rights.

What does Miss Cleo have to do with smoking cessation aids?

/oh, COMMENT

Mudo: What does Miss Cleo have to do with smoking cessation aids?

/oh, COMMENT


Came here to ask the same question...


/Modmins will make our comments look rediculous

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I just wanted to leave a commit in this thread. There I did it.

soupergenyus: I just wanted to leave a commit in this thread. There I did it.

Miss Cleo knew you'd say that.

I have no comment for this thread. There I didn't do ot.

my commit.

or it.

/stupid

Opiumpoopie, TFA said he timed the call of another officer and lied when asked about it. He was fired for lying, not calling a hotline.

I wonder, though, what action (if any) was taken against the other officer.

I just came for the HEADLINE FAIL commits.

stevegarbowski: soupergenyus: I just wanted to leave a commit in this thread. There I did it.

Miss Cleo knew you'd say that.

The only thing Miss Cleo knows is how much bullshiat comes out of her mouth on any given day.

Maybe I missed it. Did he call while on duty on the city's dime or did he call when he was off duty on his own dime?

If it was out of his own pocket, who cares? I can see being fired for drug use, accepting bribes, excessive use of violence but for calling a lame phone psychic? What were the higher ups afraid of? That he would need to call his tarot card reader before he decided whether or not they were going to do a raid?

I am lost.

Getting started a little early today, eh subby? Sure you're going to make it through the big game? I'm predicting that you faceplant into the dip before halftime.

Maybe what the Submitter meant to say was that anyone who believes that people have "psychic" powers should be committed. I concur.

mekki: Maybe I missed it. Did he call while on duty on the city's dime or did he call when he was off duty on his own dime?

If it was out of his own pocket, who cares? I can see being fired for drug use, accepting bribes, excessive use of violence but for calling a lame phone psychic? What were the higher ups afraid of? That he would need to call his tarot card reader before he decided whether or not they were going to do a raid?

I am lost.

Might be wrong here, for a change, but the article:
Another officer admitted to making the call, saying he saw an ad indicating that the call would be free if it lasted less than three minutes. That officer said Park timed the call.
seems to infer that it was at work using the taxpayer's phone.

//seems a minor matter for the sack eitherway.

thereadlines: Getting started a little early today, eh subby? Sure you're going to make it through the big game? I'm predicting that you faceplant into the dip before halftime.

Typical Americans. Real men AKA Canadians can drink for 48 hours straight, ~5 beers/hour before passing out.

Silly Canadians, real men AKA Germans can drink their whole life and never pass out, plus the beer is not bear piss.

approves.

"Officer Bryon Park should have been reinstated with back pay in September 1998. The lawsuit has been the subject of 10 years of legal wrangling.

Park, a nine-year veteran of the department, was making $33,000 a year when he was fired. Without factoring in cost-of-living adjustments and other benefits, back pay could top $330,000, according to his attorney's calculations."

Thank FSM for this attorney with his advanced computer skills, to have come up with this calculation in only a few hours.

The lawsuit has been the subject of 10 years of legal wrangling. Park, a nine-year veteran of the department, was making $33,000 a year when he was fired. Without factoring in cost-of-living adjustments and other benefits, back pay could top $330,000, according to his attorney's calculations.

If I'm ever in deep shiat, this attorney is my first call no matter what. Law degree and some kind of math wizard all rolled up into one big win.

opiumpoopy: I bet one-off cases of inappropriate phone usage are a minor disciplinary offence in the police department, not an instant dismissal - so unless the guy had a list of previous disciplinary offences, he'd have won in court even if he had done it.

/ Yes, I know a lot of Americans are 'employees at will'. I bet he wasn't.
// The rest of the world laughs at 'employees at will'. I bet most Chinese workers have more rights.

Nanny State Moron. The rest of the world that believes in personal responsibility laughs at you "entitled"... non-working... union retards.

/Work for your pay and protect your job by doing what you are hired to do... WORK.

I'm The Foot Farking Master: Nanny State Moron. The rest of the world that believes in personal responsibility laughs at you "entitled"... non-working... union retards.

/Work for your pay and protect your job by doing what you are hired to do... WORK.

You do realize your post has nothing to do with "at will" laws, right?

Actually the real big wrangling will come over the city's need to contribute to the officer's retirement fund for the 10 years of missed contributions and growth on those contributions. Plus the interest lost on the wages. The $33K from 10 years ago is worth twice that today.

I'm The Foot Farking Master: opiumpoopy: I bet one-off cases of inappropriate phone usage are a minor disciplinary offence in the police department, not an instant dismissal - so unless the guy had a list of previous disciplinary offences, he'd have won in court even if he had done it.

/ Yes, I know a lot of Americans are 'employees at will'. I bet he wasn't.
// The rest of the world laughs at 'employees at will'. I bet most Chinese workers have more rights.

Nanny State Moron. The rest of the world that believes in personal responsibility laughs at you "entitled"... non-working... union retards.

/Work for your pay and protect your job by doing what you are hired to do... WORK.

Except for when you get fired for refusing to work off the clock, which happens a lot.

/happened to me

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Try this in the private sector, Skippy.

opiumpoopy:
/ Yes, I know a lot of Americans are 'employees at will'. I bet he wasn't.
// The rest of the world laughs at 'employees at will'. I bet most Chinese workers have more rights.

Cops are not employees at will, they have civil service protections and usually union as well- a double layer of insulation for stupidity and laziness.

As for the rest of the world "laughing:" way to sound like an ignorant shiat.

opiumpoopy: I bet one-off cases of inappropriate phone usage are a minor disciplinary offence in the police department, not an instant dismissal - so unless the guy had a list of previous disciplinary offences, he'd have won in court even if he had done it.

/ Yes, I know a lot of Americans are 'employees at will'. I bet he wasn't.
// The rest of the world laughs at 'employees at will'. I bet most Chinese workers have more rights.

Yup, and most Chinese people have good, clean working environments, make 10 times what Americans do, and have full benefits.

Job security should be based on your job performance, not your farking tenure. Fark anyone who feels seniority is good for anything.

"commit"?

Does Drew even proof read these anymore? Does the Subby proof read anymore?

Does anyone read anymore??

The guy must have been a pain in the a-- to get such treatment. Anybody that had been a useful cop would not have been fired. Heck, I porked my supervisor's daughter and I'm still on the job. I hate my life (and wife).

farking cops and their union. And firefighters. Stop protecting your own that fark up.

elkraf: Heck, I porked my supervisor's daughter and I'm still on the job. I hate my life (and wife).

Maybe is you didn't commit adultery and you treated your wife well you would have a better life. Happy wife, happy life. You get what you give. Etc. I'm sure your wife sees you for the selfish, little biatch that you so obviously are. Is that why you hate her? I hope she prints out your Fark comment to use in divorce court.

i'm guessing they must have fired him for lying to his superiors. if he was even really lying to them; maybe he honestly didn't remember the phone call. but even that is really sketchy. i can't believe they would fire him for something so stupid and inconsequential.

and yet, when cops shoot unarmed suspects and use their tasers to zap nonviolent suspects, they get protected all the way to the top. so i guess the moral of the story is: kill an innocent man, keep your job. lie to your boss, get fired.

I can not commit to any comment.

opiumpoopy:
// The rest of the world laughs at 'employees at will'. I bet most Chinese workers have more rights.

It's called "freedom," lime-sucker. Sometimes there is a price to be paid for freedom, and if that price is a lack of job security, then I will take that over your Orwellian, Brazil-esque bureaucracy gone horribly wrong.

/Harry Tuttle does not approve of your shenanigans.
//The Ministry of Information wants you to submit further responses in triplicate. Also, don't forget the processing fee. Please allow six weeks to four months for a reply, if some minor functionary hasn't accidentally misfiled it, or just tossed it in the garbage.

Sounds like he's getting a rollback, rather than a commit.

I'm actually more tripped out by the suggestion that the only other job he could get is delivering pizza. 16 year old kids do that, and perhaps into college... but a grown man who'd been a cop for 9 years? Really, nothing else? The man must be a complete muppet... go on city, give that man a badge and gun... what could it hurt?

The First: "commit"?

Does Drew even proof read these anymore? Does the Subby proof read anymore?

Does anyone read anymore??

Well, yeah, when there's not some sporting event on TV requiring consumption of large amounts of beer since dawn.

ZoeNekros: I'm actually more tripped out by the suggestion that the only other job he could get is delivering pizza. 16 year old kids do that, and perhaps into college... but a grown man who'd been a cop for 9 years? Really, nothing else? The man must be a complete muppet... go on city, give that man a badge and gun... what could it hurt?

and this isn't just land-on-your-feet work for a month. This is TEN. FARKING. YEARS. of delivering pizza for a living, apparently with no promotion.

what an idiot.

Sounds like this guy got screwed by overzealous police. Oh snap!

opiumpoopy: "City must rehire a former police officer who was fired for making calls to a psychic hotline when it has been proven he didn't do it."

FTFY.

I bet one-off cases of inappropriate phone usage are a minor disciplinary offence in the police department, not an instant dismissal - so unless the guy had a list of previous disciplinary offences, he'd have won in court even if he had done it.

/ Yes, I know a lot of Americans are 'employees at will'. I bet he wasn't.
// The rest of the world laughs at 'employees at will'. I bet most Chinese workers have more rights.

So let me get this straight. A police officer maliciously mauls someone, kicks down the wrong door, wrongfully kills someone or all of the above they get time off with pay and probably nothing else. Get accused of calling a psychic and the officer is out the door? Man, police departments has some screwed up priorities.

Mjvp13: Silly Canadians, real men AKA Germans can drink their whole life and never pass out, plus the beer is not bear piss.

Mjvp13: Silly Canadians, real men AKA Germans can drink their whole life and never pass out, plus the beer is not bear piss.

Silly germans. Real men AKA texans can shoot pure black tar heroin in their eyeballs, then rope at least 50 cattle.

//had to continue it.

ZoeNekros:
I'm actually more tripped out by the suggestion that the only other job he could get is delivering pizza. 16 year old kids do that, and perhaps into college... but a grown man who'd been a cop for 9 years? Really, nothing else? The man must be a complete muppet... go on city, give that man a badge and gun... what could it hurt?

I noticed that as well. How is it that he has only two alternatives, law enforcement OR delivering pizzas? Then I read the comments following the article:

Florida Today hasn't done it's homework again. The fired officer hasn't been delivering pizzas for 10 years. He has not kept up his FDLE certification. He is not cerified and if he was forced back to employment at WMPD, he's be given a civilan job and not put back on the streets. The case will head back to the FSC and if they rule in his favor, he'll settle out of court. He wasn't making 33k a year either. You have to wonder why the Florida Today only want to put out to the general public information that's coming from the liar's attorneys mouth, yet another liar. Do the research and you'll see this loser should be delivering pizzas...

Dear subby,

Spellcheck is not always your friend. If you are presented with multiple matches upon right-clicking, be careful of your selection. You might just comment to the wrong one.

Unavailable for comment.

/visionlinked