Miscellaneous

What Not to Do: Work Naked

By Anne Skove, Esq.

It may be OK if you're a high-powered consultant working from the privacy of your own home. But if you're a public employee, it's probably not cool to walk around the building after hours in your birthday suit.

It may be even less OK if you're a prosecutor. An employee in the Government Services Center was caught on video (this is why it's a good idea to install video cameras everywhere, btw) just taking a walk at night. Without any clothing whatsoever.

The man lost his job. (He's lucky he didn't misplace his pants!)

Now he says he's recuperated from mental problems (exhibitionism? stress? extreme aversion to polyester? He claims it was medication...) that he says made him do this.

His boss says no way. Even though he was never convicted of anything (charges were dropped for various reasons), the mere specter of the video and the drop in public trust is enough to warrant his departure. Plus, he might feel weird at the next office potluck.

See Nude Stroller Wants Job Back, Janice Morse, Cincinnati Enquirer (July 4, 2008).

Full post as published by court-o-rama.org on July 04, 2008 (boomark / email).