Wednesday, April 2, 2008

ALA #3

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Fired for Calling the Police on Child Porn?

My commentary for this post is on the last article. At first I was outraged. How could they possibly fire someone for calling the police on a patron looking at child porn on a library computer? There are not words to describe my feelings on this. Next I was pacified when they said they had other reasons to fire her (she was in a probationary state anyway.) Well, not totally pacified, but much less angry. I can see how it's possible that two things happened at the same time. Granted, the other thing had better be something really good to fire her over just one week before her probationary time was over. Really, they couldn't have waited one week and avoided all the bad press that was certain to come out of it? If they are telling the truth, however, I kind of feel bad for them having to deal with bad press on something that is completely valid. If they are not telling the truth, however, my blood pressure levels will rise back up to the initial reaction. In fact, to keep y'all from having to read yet another soapbox, I'm just gonna stop my rant here.

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