Comments on: Royal Flush

Royal Flush

Smart Dalek — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 04:59:19 -0800

Fired by New York's Mayor for playing a game of solitaire, former $29,000 a year clerk Edward Greenwood IX is sure to become the new parton saint of office politics. Whether one views Greenwood as a hapless Everyman or another poster boy for workplace diversions, the question still remains: what would Ricky Gervais do?

By: Gungho

Gungho — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 05:55:44 -0800

Holy crap! Why didn't Bloomberg fire the real culprit?- the ISD /Security genius who allowed a PC to go for more than a few unattended minutes without locking the user out. (In my work we can't leave a PC alone for 15 minutes before it goes into a password protected screensaver mode).

By: HTuttle

HTuttle — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 06:13:28 -0800

Idiot. Who wastes their downtime playing fuckin solitaire? Oh yeah, some 27k schmuck.

By: klarck

klarck — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 06:31:09 -0800

Edward's not the only fool. If my boss's boss's boss's boss's boss so much as set foot in our building, my cube farm would be transformed into a Potemkin village within minutes. (Gungho, same here. The Group Policy Editor [gpedit.msc] is your ticket.)

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 06:55:47 -0800

Paying my bill at the old Con Ed office in Union Square, I found myself a supplicant before a row of agents on a raised desk/counter like a judge would have, each worker half hidden behind a computer monitor. I later went down around the end and looked over at the screens--you guessed it, solitaire all down the line. This is Bloomberg's version of Guilliani firing the guy the Post caught taking multiple cigarette breaks outside his city office.

By: Fezboy!

Fezboy! — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 06:55:59 -0800

HTuttle writes "Idiot.
"Who wastes their downtime playing fuckin solitaire?
"Oh yeah, some 27k schmuck."

You're pretty cool, man. We should hang out some time.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 06:58:02 -0800

Oh, and that cigarette guy committed suicide over the whole thing, if I remember correctly.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 07:02:14 -0800

Oh yeah, some 27k schmuck. I believe you meant to write 'some 27k gifted bluegrass guitarist and singer, trained operating-room technician, certified airplane mechanic and a former Greyhound bus driver' HTH.

By: anser

anser — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 07:24:37 -0800

Wasn't Dabney Coleman the previous "parton saint of office politics"?

By: clevershark

clevershark — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:06:17 -0800

PeterMcDermott writes "I believe you meant to write 'some 27k gifted bluegrass guitarist and singer, trained operating-room technician, certified airplane mechanic and a former Greyhound bus driver'" What's he doing at a 27k clerk job?!?

By: gene_machine

gene_machine — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:10:09 -0800

Not a lot, by the sounds of things

By: teleskiving

teleskiving — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 09:37:33 -0800

> Wasn't Dabney Coleman the previous "parton saint of office politics"? Awesome.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 10:37:09 -0800

Gungho, it's five minutes where I am employed.

By: bardic

bardic — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 10:38:02 -0800

HTuttle, I'm totally gay for you.

By: stenseng

stenseng — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:48:26 -0800

I found the nytimes article typically lacking. They spend 85% of the article riffing on his goofy lineage, and barely mention his dismissal, the seeming point of the piece, and no time whatsoever discussing the justification. Absolute crap piece.

By: apple scruff

apple scruff — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 12:34:51 -0800