First off, I didn’t know government workers were ever fired. Then I read this CareerJournal.com story At the Pentagon, Employees Fill ‘Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure’. The gist of the story is that this Pentagon lawyer keeps a website of ethical violations that occur within the government sector.
Some humorous examples:
-Take the case of the Customs and Border Protection officer who landed a government helicopter on his daughter’s grade-school playground…
-Two Veterans Affairs bureaucrats were charged with overbilling the government and receiving kickbacks from a supplier. “The product?” Mr. Epstein dryly notes: “Red tape.” It was more than 100,000 rolls of a special type used to prevent tampering with prescription-drug orders.
-Then there’s the “links-loving Vice Admiral,” who sponsored a private golf tournament on government time and awarded prizes solicited from defense contractors.
What a great idea for exposing these transgressions while using humor to make a point.