Comments on: Fashion Police: New Orleans Officer Suspended Fifteen Minutes Before His Retirement

By: sanford-white

sanford-white — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:48:23 +0000

bureaucracy at its best!

By: mespo727272

mespo727272 — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:55:10 +0000

Bob,Esq:

I like that scenario too. Let’s see what happens here.

By: Bob, Esq.

Bob, Esq. — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:29:58 +0000

Mespo:

Don’t forget the context of an honest cop trying to stick it to a retiring corrupt cop.

By: mespo727272

mespo727272 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:45:05 +0000

Bob,Esq:

You know you’re right about that corruption, but if this is pretextual, it does prove that the NOPD is also the stupidest force around.

By: Bob, Esq.

Bob, Esq. — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:25:41 +0000

“Work place bullying plain and simple.”

Considering the NOPD is one of the most corrupt in the country, it may be best to wait for the dust to settle on this one.

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:53:14 +0000

You may be correct Rich. As others have said, there’s obviously bad blood but a professional manager would have addressed problems long ago, not tried a last minute, chicken-shit way to harm someone’s retirement pay.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:43:29 +0000

Obviously there’s more going on here than meets the eye and Guidry may be less of a victim than he appears to be.

By: mnoble

mnoble — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:15:49 +0000

A policeman showing an utter lack of judgment? Good thing those guys don’t carry guns!

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:54:39 +0000

I agree with JT and Mespo, this was an act of workplace bullying and unbelievable stupidity. One has to wonder why this officer wasn’t notified he was wearing the “wrong” shirt prior to the day he’s supposed to retire. It’s a very minor error that is easy to correct, if the upper echelons in the department found it so objectionable.

By: mespo727272

mespo727272 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:44:40 +0000

Work place bullying plain and simple.

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:28:49 +0000

Not just that, why did he wait until the end of the day to act? His choice was easily recognized and remedied shortly after he arrived at work. The only way this makes sense is if a higher official didn’t see him until his retirement party and then instructed his supervisor to act. This would also explain the delay in remedying the situation. In this case the supervisor would be an innocent fall guy.

BTW I understand the officer’s motivation but they’re called ‘uniforms’ for a reason. Suspension is a wee bit excessive, though, since it’s so trivially remedied. (What, the precinct doesn’t have any spare shirts?)

Besides the senselessness of the cause, you would expect the department to bend over backwards to keep its retired corps healthy. The city can call on them in future emergencies.

By: rafflaw

rafflaw — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:51:12 +0000

It sounds like Officer Guidry got under somebody’s saddle. Why any employer would bother spending money to deal with this non-issue with 15 minutes left in an employee’s career is amazing. Good luck to Officer Guidry. I agree with Prof. Turley that someone should be investigating the superintendant for approving such nonsense.