{"id":678,"date":"2006-02-09T09:36:59","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T17:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/hizzoner_prefers_free_cell.html"},"modified":"2006-02-09T09:36:59","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T17:36:59","slug":"hizzoner_prefer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/hizzoner_prefer.html","title":{"rendered":"Hizzoner Prefers Free Cell"},"content":{"rendered":"

A City employee was fired after the Mayor saw an open game of Solitaire on his computer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Mayor Bloomberg had a city clerical worker fired after visiting his office — and getting enraged when he saw a solitaire card game on his computer, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

Edward Greenwood IX was canned last Tuesday from his approximately $30,000-a-year job with no warning or severance pay after six years working in the city’s Albany lobbying office.<\/p>\n

A source told The Post that Bloomberg was fuming after he made a rare visit to the office a few blocks from the Capitol before Gov. Pataki’s Jan. 4 State of the State speech — and spotted a game on the employee’s computer.<\/p>\n

In an interview yesterday at his home just 10 miles outside of Albany, Greenwood, who is married and has a 3-year-old son, admitted he had a solitaire screen on his computer during the mayor’s visit, but said he was “running around working” and not playing the game at the time.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

A few hours later, Greenwood recalled, he overheard his boss, chief city lobbyist Anthony “Skip” Piscitelli, telling a co-worker that the mayor was upset someone had been playing solitaire at work.<\/p>\n

“Skip seemed upset, but no one talked to me about it directly,” Greenwood told The Post. “I know I’m not the only one who ever played solitaire there.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Aside: Who knew the City had an office in Albany?<\/p>\n

A source familiar with Bloomberg’s visit to the office confirmed the mayor hit the roof about the computer game, as well as believing that the office was too spacious.<\/p>\n

A few weeks after Bloomberg’s visit, Greenwood, who is a non-union employee, was suddenly axed by Piscitelli and an official from the city personnel office.<\/p>\n

“They told me to pack up as fast as I can and get out,” Greenwood said yesterday. “I was kind of shocked at the expedience of the whole thing.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A City employee was fired after the Mayor saw an open game of Solitaire on his computer: Mayor Bloomberg had a city clerical worker fired after visiting his office — and getting enraged when he saw a solitaire card game on his computer, The Post has learned. Edward Greenwood IX was canned last Tuesday from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}