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Employee caught smoking crack while driving company vehicle

Fred Hosier — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:00:09 +0000

Do you conduct random drug testing on employees who drive company vehicles?

Maybe the U.S. Postal Service should consider it. A mail carrier has admitted smoking crack cocaine for years in her mail truck because she had more privacy there.

Police in Milwaukee arrested Sandra Winkler after they caught her delivering and smoking crack cocaine on the job.

Police charged Winkler with delivering crack to her adult daughter from her mail truck.

Winkler admitted she’s been doing crack for years.

If Winkler is convicted, she could face up to 10 years in prison.

And it wasn’t even casual Friday

Fred Hosier — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:00:48 +0000

We’re guessing that this bar in Delhi, IL, didn’t have any dress code for employees.

That’s because one of its employees was caught not wearing any clothes on the job.

Sheriff’s deputies were making a routine bar check at the Cabin Tavern when they allegedly found bartender Janet Brannon working in the nude.

Brannon was the only employee at the bar, so the deputies closed it down and arrested her on an outstanding warrant, according to the Alton, IL, Telegraph.

She also faces a public indecency charge. Local authorities will also seek charges against the bar’s owners.

Labor protest: Tinkerbell in handcuffs

Fred Hosier — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:00:56 +0000

No company wants unionized workers protesting outside of its facilities. But it’s even worse when the company is Disney and the workers are arrested while wearing character costumes.

The protesters sat in a circle in a busy intersection in Anaheim, CA, home of Disneyland.

Police arrested 32, many of them in costumes representing famous Disney characters such as Cinderella, Snow White and Tinkerbell. You can see pictures of the protest and arrested workers here.

The protesters were arrested on a misdemeanor count of failure to obey a police officer and two traffic infractions.

Bewildered tourists walked by the protesters as they were being arrested.

A union for Disney hotel workers says the workers were protesting a labor proposal which would reduce benefits, making health care unaffordable for workers.

Fake doctor arrested; he was trying to meet women

Fred Hosier — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:00:32 +0000

Just imagine: Someone likes your workplace so much he dresses like your employees just to hang out!

Eric Perteet dressed himself in surgical scrubs so he could spend time among medical staff at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, GA.

That would be weird enough except that it took hospital security six weeks to get rid of him, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Perteet had been a fixture in various waiting rooms, doctor’s lounges, the library and even the emergency room for about a month and a half.

A hospital spokeswoman said some of the facility’s female staffers found the 27-year-old “absolutely adorable” and that he was obviously trying to meet women.

But one nurse found him annoying because he was reading magazines in the emergency room while other staffers were working. She reported him to hospital security. The police arrested him.

It could have been worse: There’s no word of Perteet actually trying to treat any patients.