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Octomom Made Me Do It: Snoop and GetFired
March 31, 2009
Can you imagine losing your job over Octomom? That&;s what more than 20 Kaiser hospital employees are contemplating this morning. Apparently they couldn&;t contain themselves from looking at Nadya Suleman&;s records.
Even if they were looking for &;the frozen pop&; (the best description I ever heard of a sperm donor) or the tabloids were behind it, this summary judgement and punishment seems riduculously harsh. A warning would probably have worked for some of the curious.
By taking in this woman and deploying enormous resources (46 employees in the delivery room) without asking questions or asking for supplemental payments, Kaiser already has a lot to answer for. If I paid premiums there, I&;d be screaming.
And considering how hard it can be for a company to fire someone, one wonders if this is an easy way to cut costs and clean house.
Tags:celebrity-privacy-violations, Octomom, privacy-violation Posted in Privacy, tabloid-journalism | Leave a Comment &;
UCLA Snoops Shows No MorePrivacy
October 31, 2008
Some 1041 patient files were violated by peeping eyes at UCLA Medical Center&;and that&;s just the ones they know about.
While the files violated included those of California First Lady Maria Shriver, actress Farrah Fawcett and singer Britney Spears, we don&;t even have 1000 celebrities in LA, even if you add 5 actors from each of the top 20 TV shows, another 5 from the top ten films, 50 musicians, the entire roster of the Dodgers, Angels, Lakers and Clippers (that last a stretch) plus comedians, politicians, artists and has-beens.
So that means people at UCLA (and probably your local hospital) are snooping on their ex&;s, their neighbors and &;that guy they brought in today&; out of boredom and unwholesome curiosity. More than 165 workers at UCLA have been disciplined; doesn&;t seem to be working. Maybe they should start actually firing and arresting people.
As CEO of workstation maker SUN, Scott McNealy was best known for his intemperate attacks on Microsoft (referring to Bill Gates and the current CEO as &;Ballmer and Butthead&;) and his uninspired leadership of the failing company.
But even a broken clock is right twice a day. As McNealy told reporters back in 1999, &;You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.&;
Tags:Brittany-Spears, Farrah-Fawcett, Maria-Shriver, Privacy, Scott-McNealy, Sun-Microsystems, UCLA Medical Center Posted in Privacy, technology, technology-journalism | Leave a Comment &;