- "No city agency should permit the work place to display inappropriate stuff."
Mylan Denerstein, the FDNY's deputy commissioner for legal affairs, commenting on the department's new policy banning all personal decorations from the outside of firefighters lockers, including pictures of colleagues killed on 9/11, American flags, and 'Support Our Troops' stickers.
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Stuck on stupid.... (Below threshold)1. Posted by La Mano | January 11, 2007 1:19 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Stuck on stupid.
1. Posted by La Mano | January 11, 2007 1:19 AM |
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Posted on January 11, 2007 01:19
2. Posted by Simply Kimberly | January 11, 2007 1:26 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Great idea!
Lets tell the guys and gals that run into burning buildings to save lives that remembrances of the lost firefighters of 9/11 and the soldiers fighting the war against terror are inappropriate.
2. Posted by Simply Kimberly | January 11, 2007 1:26 AM |
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Posted on January 11, 2007 01:26
3. Posted by Knightbrigade | January 11, 2007 2:38 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"inappropriate stuff"
Does he mean like the bureaucratic Politically Correct horseshit that pretends to be FDNY policies, written up by asshats?!!
Cuz that crap is INAPPROPRIATE STUFF!!!!!!
3. Posted by Knightbrigade | January 11, 2007 2:38 AM |
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Posted on January 11, 2007 02:38
4. Posted by blackcat77 | January 11, 2007 2:48 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Some people care more about their feelings than their freedom and this is the result. There's a reasonable case for saying that a worker shouldn't be subject to stuff like sexual harassment or unwanted religious proselitization, but that's vastly different than a picture in somebody's locker. If you don't like it, don't look at it. Duh.
4. Posted by blackcat77 | January 11, 2007 2:48 AM |
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Posted on January 11, 2007 02:48
5. Posted by jpm100 | January 11, 2007 5:40 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Some bureaucrat saw his opportunity to impose his personal restrictions on free speech. Hope the individual gets publicly excoriated as an example to the rest.
5. Posted by jpm100 | January 11, 2007 5:40 AM |
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Posted on January 11, 2007 05:40
6. Posted by meep | January 11, 2007 6:08 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
This is not going to be popular in NYC. What does Nanny Bloomberg have to say about this, I wonder.
6. Posted by meep | January 11, 2007 6:08 AM |
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Posted on January 11, 2007 06:08
7. Posted by Eneils Bailey | January 11, 2007 7:57 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The world moves on, firefighters showing respect to their fallen brothers and drawing inspiration from images of family. Asshat city officials enforcing their policies of political correctness.
I wonder if the city officials at town hall have to take pictures of their families of their desks.
7. Posted by Eneils Bailey | January 11, 2007 7:57 AM |
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Posted on January 11, 2007 07:57
8. Posted by Mitchell | January 11, 2007 11:45 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I'll admit as a lawyer that we have become such a "legalized" society that we let "legalisms" (i.e., false assumptions substituting for common sense) take us over, to the point where we can't make the simplest of judgment calls.
Sheesh.
8. Posted by Mitchell | January 11, 2007 11:45 AM |
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Posted on January 11, 2007 11:45