Porn Scandal: Planner Says Photo of Rio Revelers Got Him Fired

• Let us keep in mind that not all of the SF Planning Department employees involved in this porn email incident have been fired even though they all broke the same rule. That is evidence enough that the decision makers are neither fair, ethical nor qualified to make those decisions. They should step down. All of them.

• Sharkz, that is called retaliation, which is illegal.

• Jim Miller was a solid professional planner. I don't condone sending porn or screwing off at work, but an odd picture 3 years ago is not grounds for termination. He, and it sounds like many others (No sympathy for Badiner) got fucked. The old school planners did their job and pushed back at management telling them to take one position or another with no rhyme or reason. I bet this will be a factor in who gets a forensic look at their computer and email records. In related news, planning students graduating in the class of 2010 will find that there are jobs a plenty. I work for the City, thank goodness I always saved my porn time for home. I also make a point to separate my work and personal life- its not that hard.

• Getting rid of people over 40? Isn't that ageism? Isn't age a protected employment class? This whole mess, which is intended to create a hostile free work environment is targetting the groups that it is intended to protect. What's next? Hiring new people exempt from the reign of Willie? He is black right? Oh I get it, then the Department will be hiring yet another white caucasian European senior manager and perhaps fire more GLBT and non-white folk, remember Sally Ramon. Management and staff should reflect the citizens it is supposed to serve. Isn't oppression grand?

• Is she related to Marge Simpson?

• This is a really great way to bypass civil service regulations, which favor seniority, to get rid of expensive, long time employees over the age of 40. Even if the rulings go in their favor, the whole humiliating process will likely keep the old folks from returning to their jobs. In the end, getting rid of the old timers will be worth the cost of fighting potential lawsuits.

• What's driving the witchhunt? Bankruptcy. I'm not saying it is right. I clicked on Playboy.com once at work (just reading the articles). But I don't forward emails around from my work account. I have yahoo/gmail/hotmail for that. When will people learn? Actually, I learned when my co-worker was fired for too much pr0n surfing at work.

• The new Planning Director has found a way to clean house and is using it to the maximum. Now he will be able to re hire all those positions with people of his choosing rather than holdover employees from the reign of Willie Brown. That group headed by Badiner needed to be taken out. Good work, Mr. Rahaim.

• What I want to know is why the Director of Human Resources is publicly commenting on a matter that is supposed to be confidential.

• I'd like to think that they are using the porn as a way to clean house of bad employees. I don't know anything about the Jim Miller mentioned in the article but anyone who has ever crossed paths with the now fired ZA, Larry Badiner can tell you, he was a smarmy, arrogant SOB who held way too much power. Good riddance. Unfortunately, the SF will suffer from his bad decisions for years to come.

• "looking to lay people off" --"looking" being the operative word, since they seem to be hunting until evidence is found to act against certain people marked for exit. You don't suddenly fire someone for a Nat'l Geog pic sent three years ago unless there's something driving this other than the "porn" probe involved.

• Hmmm, everyone knows work email is not for personal use, particularly anything risque, and your employer, in this case, the city of SF, is looking to lay people off.

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