Three Iowa civil rights investigators have been fired after sending hundreds of gossipy emails calling co-workers derogatory nicknames like “Psycho,” ”Monster,” and “Roid Rage,” and forwarding pictures that made fun of fat people, Wal-Mart customers and others, according to public records and interviews.
Tiffanie Drayton, Michele Howard and Wendy Buenger repeatedly used mocking nicknames for many of their colleagues at the Iowa Civil Rights Commission in e-mails they sent throughout the workday, according to copies obtained by The Associated Press under the public records law.
They called their supervisor, Don Grove, “Teen Wolf” and the commission’s executive director Beth Townsend, “Night Ranger,” as they gossiped about their management styles. They criticized colleagues’ looks, social skills and mannerisms, quoted vulgar rap lyrics and received and sent offensive pictures — all while they were supposed to be investigating complaints of housing and employment discrimination.
Townsend, also called “Sarg” in some messages, discovered the trove of emails during an unrelated investigation into the alleged release of confidential information. She told AP she fired them after an internal investigation, which found Drayton alone sent an average of 75 personal emails per day from March 1 until June 3.
Meanwhile, Drayton finished only one civil rights investigation during the same timeframe — a pace of work seen as slower than usual but satisfactory, according to Grove’s testimony. Howard sent 1,600 emails during the same timeframe, almost none of them work-related.
“I discovered that she had been sending these profane, obscene, vulgar, inappropriate emails as well as emails between her and two other staff members that were harassing to their peers and their management,” Townsend testified Aug. 5 at Drayton’s hearing. “They had assigned nicknames for everybody in the agency that included ‘Monster,’ ‘Psycho,’ stoned intern, ‘Roid Rage,’ ‘Rainman,” ‘Extreme Makeover,’ ‘Homeless McGree,’ ‘albino.’
This is funny. Doesn't everybody do this?
The only difference is that most people don't spend their time sending 1600 non-work related emails over a three month time span.
State Employees are so stupid. Don't they know that everything their pound out in Outlook gets archived?
Former Governor Tom Vilsack at least had the sense to destroy emails during his term, or whatever his excuse was, back in 2003. Yet just a couple years later Vilsack was a guy who could operate two Blackberries.
Remember Beverly Clark, who worked for Iowa Workforce Development? She sued the State several years back because she was passed over for promotions a total of 56 times over 4 years. What did she spend her days doing? Applying for other jobs?
Not working is also something in the job description of university employees. They don't stick around long these days. They're all a bunch of money grubbing whores if you ask me.
Michael Hogan, former UI Provost, didn't do jack shit in his job except apply for other jobs. Today he's the President of the University of Illinois and making over $600,000 a year. He's probably still unhappy.
Then there was Meredith Hay, who was the UI Vice President for Research and who was applying for Provost positions all over the country. She did get a job as the University of Arizona provost, where she was hated. She later applied to be the President of UMass, but withdrew. Now she's been kicked upstairs to the Board of Regents in Arizona.
Then there's Wallace Loh, another recent UI Provost. A lot of money was spent wining and dining and 69ing this fucking clown. His starting salary was $350,000 a year. He didn't stick around long before applying for other jobs, which seems to be the job of the UI Provost other than cashing huge paychecks. Now he's the President of the University of Maryland.
I'm surprised that Elizabeth Hoffman is still the ISU Provost. She's been in that job for nearly 5 years. Isn't it about time to move on? No, she's damaged goods. Does Elizabeth Hoffman really want to go through the show trial of having to defend the use of the word cunt as a term of endearment?
You look around our great state and you see all these State employees driving here and there. Sitting at their computers. Pounding out 1600 emails over 3 months to co-workers about Teen Wolf and Night Ranger. And you can be certain that your tax dollars are being well spent.
So the next time that asshole Marxists at the Des Moines Register who love Big Government, like that dipshit Rekha Basu and everybody else, go on about budget cuts to state government, point them to this story. I bet there's hundreds and thousands of government employees fucking around all day long. Sleeping on the job. Jerking off to porn. Drinking. Playing Farmville. Apply for another job. Whatever. Gambling. Too many of them are losers and they should all be fired. Not all of them. But you have to wonder how long Teen Wolf and Night Ranger didn't know what their employees did all damn day long. Ya think?
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