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So wait, you expect me to, like, want to work and stuff?
Emmalee Bauer recently filed a request in Iowa for unemployment, after getting fired from her hotel job. Her request was denied, so things moved to a state hearing before an administrative law judge. Unfortunately for Ms. Bauer, the ALJ also denied the unemployment request, all because of a particular piece of evidence submitted during the hearing.
That evidence? A journal Bauer kept on the computer at her old hotel job. A journal which she kept while she was supposed to be working. A journal which detailed her efforts to avoid doing the work she was supposed to be doing. It was the discovery of this journal by a supervisor which led to Bauer’s firing, and now the journal’s struck again, being the linchpin in her failed attempt to get unemployment.
Bauer claimed the journal helped her deal with her frustrations and anxiety, but the judge wasn’t biting.
Now look, people, how many times do we have to tell you? Don’t tell your boss you hate him, don’t piss in the company coffee pot and don’t leave a written trail about your slacking off. It’s just bad form.
