The top news story of my day: Denver's government employees are better at utilizing their work time effectively than I.
The Denver International Airport has a state-of-the-art rig that is used for putting out flaming planes, but has more recently been used to fan the flames of workplace romance.
"It's supposed to be used for plane crashes, NOT as a pleasure palace." Quality journalistic commentary right there, my friends.
This report has left me with a couple of questions:
1. Where do Denver's city employees get their ethics training? Could I participate in that one instead of the talking heads videos to which I'm subjected to make me ethical?
The standard we were taught in my employee ethics training was that office facilities could be used for "ad minimus" personal use. Is that the reason that the tapes show them "undressing and engaging in sex from 3:15pm to 3:26pm"? Eleven minutes strikes me as less than the minimum, but perhaps that was a compromise they were willing to strike to maintain a hold on their dignity as civil servants.
2. Essentially these folks were having sex in a big, shiny trailer. Why is everyone so shocked that she was impressed with his double-wide? If the rest of the city officials were from the south side of Indianapolis, they would have understood.
3. The airport spokesman's comment was, "We took immediate action. We're not going to stand for that kind of behavior at the airport."
Unless it's by the TSA, in which case it's fine.
