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Flabbergasted Feds

Howard Cantor, Deputy Regional Administrator at the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s Denver, Colo., office, has put out a memo asking employees to please not poop in hallways. Cantor says “several incidents” led to the request, and noted he consulted with a “national expert” in workplace violence who advised that the situation was “very dangerous,” and the responsible party would “probably escalate” their behavior. In 2013, the Social Security Administration issued a Letter of Reprimand to an employee citing “60 documented instances” of creating a “hostile work environment” and “Conduct Unbecoming a Federal Employee” by farting in his office (see “Breaking News” in Volume 19). (RC/Washington Post) ...Seems to me that was an Environmental Protection issue too.
Original Publication Date: 29 June 2014
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.

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