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Interior Disciplines Staffers For Partying With Oil Workers
Looks like having sex with employees of oil companies you're supposed to be regulating -- not to mention doing drugs in the office -- isn't such a great career move after all.
An internal Interior Department report issued in September found that a "culture of substance abuse and promiscuity" had existed from 2002 to 2006 in the department Denver office. Staffers had been getting drunk and having sex with oil company personnel, as well as doing coke and smoking pot in the office.
And today, reports the Associated Press, Interior took disciplinary action against those involved -- ranging from a warning letter to termination. The department wouldn't provide further details on the punishments.
Workers in the office were also found to have accepted golf and ski trips, snowboarding lessons and concert tickets from oil companies.
Josh
Zachary
Discipline...hurts...soooo...good!
November 21, 2008 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Puts a whole 'nuther twist on "Bushies burrowing in at Interior". Of all the ugly, screwy stories of corruption and depravity in the Bush Administration, this is the most appalling - and fun!
November 21, 2008 3:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
An example of Bush's Good Christian Folk, no doubt.
November 22, 2008 9:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's interesting how they were having sex while we were getting screw#d.
November 21, 2008 3:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is it just me, or does anyone else wish that they had been working at Interior from 2002 - 2006??
November 21, 2008 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, man...
I ought'a flag your damn comment as "abusive" - I can do that now, you know! There was a time when I was habitually drunk, high and had a dollar bill jammed up my nose so often, everyone thought I was a broken change machine. I turned it around. Dried out, straightened up and started doing macrame. I don't appreciate jokes about drug, alcohol and sex abuse. They're... abusive!
OK! Now that I've beaten everyone over the head with my sanctimony and been-there-done-that streetsmarts... yeah... it woulda' been great at Interior back then. Toot 'em up, dude! Oil industry chick are hot!
November 21, 2008 4:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
ARE YOU F**CKING KIDDING ME????
I've worked over time with some of the most inveterate stoners you can imagine, and we never imbibed at work, in a goddamn university dormitory kitchen. (We'd step outside.)
Are you seriously telling me that a bunch of kids marginally old enough to drink, possessing among us barely the respect for authority and protocol of a single typical libertarian, acted more responsibly in a workplace where that sort of shenanigans is expected?
The fuck.
November 21, 2008 5:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
No because that would imply being a republican.
There are just some lines that cannot be crossed, no matter how enticing. This is a principled stand.
November 22, 2008 1:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
I would just like to remind the Bush administration that I remain available for last-minute bribes, sexual favors, and get-out-of-jail-free cards.
November 21, 2008 4:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
From the old '70s Cheech and Chong skit.
How do you plead?
I plead insanity!
Insanity?
I'm just crazy about that stuff!
BAILIFF!! WHACK HIM ON THE PEE-PEE!!!
November 21, 2008 4:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
As a former stoner I assure you the correct quote is, "Bailiff? Whack his pee-pee!"
Don't mean to go all anal-retentive on you. Perhaps I should go back to being a stoner after all. ;-)
November 21, 2008 6:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
go back to being a stoner,
Wait...
We were supposed to stop?? No one told me we were supposed to stop....
November 23, 2008 11:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
The whole Interior gig sounds like an inside job.
And where's Joe the plumber when you need him to flush out the burrowing Bushites? "Writing" books?
Next he'll take up macrame.
November 21, 2008 4:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
WOW! disciplined...
What about the damages done to the taxpayers of this nation who have been screwed once again by those in possession of the money and power...
What about paying back the money they were receiving while snorting... or on the backs?
What about the redistribution of funds that occurred due to their negligence...
What about the fact that all this was illegal and is punishable by JAIL TIME!
We're goin' downhill fast, folks...
November 21, 2008 7:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
The certified insanity and decision making ability or lack of that prevails at bushcon is: if they have your vote and oath of silence any personal and/or job related miscues have no bearing on your paycheck or future promtions.
Everyone must know by now this was/is not limited to one department/agency.
Don't ever forget they have a real life training facility for all buschcon fantasy at bohogrove, your everything goes playground for self examination and acting out.
None of this is new or any different.Only thing new or different with this buschcon is they have almost 100% willing participation.
Quick fix? Flush the toilet.
November 21, 2008 9:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Welcome to BushWorld.
November 22, 2008 9:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
WARNING: If you EVER again give out contracts for half their value to oil companies and only take a Subway Sandwich and a BJ in return, you will be severely chastised and your position will be at issue. You should at least have held out for a sailboat or tickets to the Knick's games.
November 23, 2008 3:39 PM | Reply | Permalink