9 Virtual March Protesters were just relieved of their jobs here at my company.

[SirFishalot]

LMAO. I just got out of an emergency meeting with the sales manager here at work. He told us that he just fired 9 people in his department because he caught them participating in that farce today using company time and equipment. That is considered theft and thus leads to immediate termination at my company. He is able to monitor all of their keystrokes, pageviews, faxes, and phonecalls and they know it yet the dummies still did it.

Here are some of the highlights he gave us for just todays traffic.

-There were a total of around 1200 phone calls to Washington DC numbers today. We average 5 per day.

-One employee alone was responsible for over 300 of them.

-One lady faxed over 400 faxes to Washington numbers.

-There was over 5000 emails to .gov addresses from just that group.

-2 of them were caught actually running websites from here that are devoted to the protest today.

-3 of them hadn't even made one work related call today.

It was actually pretty funny to watch the guy walk them out because he walked in the office with two guys I've never seen before and asked for the following employees to stand up, then read off there names. He asked them to follow him up to the lunchroom for a meeting. The two guys followed them all up. A little later, one of those guys comes back with a supervisor and our IT guy. They took the personal effects from each of the cubes and put them on a cart. The IT guy took the hard drive from each of their computers also.

He told us in the meeting that the two guys were police officers who basically documented everything and escorted them off of the property with the warning that they would be charged with trespassing if they step foot back on the property.

Looks they will have lots of time to protest now. LOL

Dummies.

[vbmoneyspender]

excellent

[newgeezer]

What would make this even funnier is if your company is a defense contractor. :-)

[MikeWUSAF]

OMG! How stupid! And they thought they would get away with it?

[Madame Dufarge]

Really big Schadenfreude bump!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[lady lawyer]

Woohoo.

[Arkie2]

You mean some of those protesters have( had ) jobs? I'm flabbergasted!

[boomop1]

Peace activists um, better watch and make sure they don't go postal.

[TADSLOS]

I guess that leaves them cardboard signs and crayons, provided they can scrounge them out of the dumpster without getting caught in theft by dump picking.

[tomkat]

hotdamn !
egggggggcellent

[What Is Ain't]

Hehehe...how gratifying. Some of the numbers you've offered seem suspect but, if these folks were using company time and assets to entertain their fantasies, then good riddance.

[Gun142]

Karma in action
I love it!

[RightOnline]

Wow.

[X-Servative]

Are you on FR at work? If so, what is the difference?

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

Oh please say that your boss wrote washington back to tell them all of those faxes, phone calls etc., were the results of THEFT.

[sissyjane]

Too bad this wasn't recorded and shown on CNN, MSNBC, FOX and most especially CBS! Greatest thing I've heard all day.

[dandelion]

This is how almost all the left's "protests" are done. A few people make a LOT of noise, then they inflate the numbers to make it look big. And they almost always do it on someone else's dime...

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

I like your idea better!

[Britton J Wingfield]

I love it! Can you give us a clue as to who you work for?

[MNlurker]

ouch

[areafiftyone]

What were these idiots thinking? 1200 phone calls? Did they really think the company wouldn't log all those calls or the 500 faxes?

[Peach]

You've made my day with this report. Thanks!

[ConservativeConvert]

Oh My God! That is unreal! Good for him...but I wouldn't be surprised if those fools attempt a lawsuit. Amazing.

[rface]

FReepin' at work .... bump...

[gulfcoast6]

This is the best I have seen all day, maybe all month. A big STAR for your boss.

[FreeTally]

I hope for the financial sake of your company that they have previously fired anyone and everyone who have used company time and computers to engage in any political activity. If not, you had better find another job.

Are you on company time right now??

[DBtoo]

Don't know if that is funny or ominous.

[HighRoadToChina]

BUMP!

[Petronski]

Severe Schadenfreude Alert!

[garyhope]

The smug, condescending and self-righteous arrogance of the left wing, socialist, anti-American, fascist "liberals" never ends. They just can't conceive that they might be wrong.

We need more of this to happen to them. There should be consequences for treason. I hope they put these f**kers in jail.

[babaloo999]

Of course, now they're on some filthy website screaming about how any dissent against the war is being stifled by the evil republicans.
Either that, or they're trying desperately to find a lawyer.
Heh, good luck. Not.

[X-Servative]

Bingo!! You see what I see here.

[UncleSamUSA]

Great news, congrats to your boss!!!

The fired employees deserved exactly what they got. I'm sure the comapy impounded the hard drives as evidence of their misconduct in case any of them feel like suing.

[DBtoo]

I was wondering the same thing. Lots of people go online at work when they are suppose to be working. When I'm at work I work.

[Bullish]

Wow! We need a lot more managers like yours.

[FreeTally]

Can you give us a clue as to who you work for?

Oh, I suspect you will know in a day or so when they file suit for wrongful and discrimitory termination.

[Republican Red]

Too funny! You made my day. Thanks for the post.

[SquirrelKing]

HA HAW!

[thinktwice]

Her: How was your day at work, Dear?"
Him: Well, uhmmmm, I don't know what to say.
Her: What happened?
Him: Well, I don't work there any more.
Her: What happened?
Him: Well, I made some phone calls to Washington, and I sent some faxes ...
Her: About what?
Him: Protesting the war.
Her: What's wrong with that?
Him: Those bastards I work for are pro-war.
Her: Let's sue them.
Him: Yeah, a class action suit.

And so it goes with liberals

[P8riot]

Uh Oh. I'm reading this at work.

[pettifogger]

I hope for the financial sake of your company that they have previously fired anyone and everyone who have used company time and computers to engage in any political activity. If not, you had better find another job.

Can't really see what kind of claim these folks might be able to make. Where a private employer is involved, "engaging in political activity" is not a protected category under federal law or any state law of which I am aware.

They could, of course, TRY to claim discriminatin based on some other protected category (race, creed, color, national origin, gender . . . ) and say that others not in their protected category have been treated less harshly for doing exactly the same thing. Trust me, they'll try it.

[anniegetyourgun]

Basking in it.....

[Junior]

And you're posting to FreeRepublic during working hours. Go figure ...

[Maneuver Damage 1]

This is great. So I guess these folks weren't run of the mill hippy-slacker wasteoids?

They could pass themselves off as normal people in a regular work environment?

[Hildy]

What are you doing here online? Doesn't your company monitor you?

[pfflier]

Thanks I needed a smile today

[FreeTally]

Bingo!! You see what I see here.

Yeh, I think someone should have consulted an attorney before doing that. I think someone's patriotism just cost a company millions of dollars and his/her job.

I could be wrong, but The poster seems to indicate he is still at work, right now, posting to a political forum. Heck, this thread will be evidence in a suit.