The Easiest Reason to Fire Someone

July 21, 2008 RSS Feed Print
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Some HR choices are hard. There just isn't much gray area in this firing decision:

An internal affairs report says a Daytona Beach police officer demanded free coffee and tea from a Starbucks and threatened employees with slower emergency response times if they refused.

Lt. Major Garvin, a 15-year veteran, was fired July 8. According to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Chief Mike Chitwood says Garvin recently failed a polygraph test that he insisted on taking.

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