{"id":236,"date":"2006-02-13T11:14:27","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T09:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=236"},"modified":"2006-02-13T12:29:37","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T10:29:37","slug":"play-solitaire-get-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/02\/13\/play-solitaire-get-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Solitaire, get Fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/wire\/newyork\/ny-bc-ny--mayor-gameover0209feb09,0,2795209.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork\">New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg fired office assistant Edward Greenwood IX for playing Solitaire at work<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The workplace is not an appropriate place for games,&#8221; Bloomberg said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a place where you&#8217;ve got to do the job that you&#8217;re getting paid for.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Edward finds it a little harsh:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m the only one that ever did this,&#8221; said the 39-year-old father of a toddler.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s time to review the computer use policies where we work. As a game researcher, I guess I can&#8217;t be fired for playing games but only for, say, reading a novel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg fired office assistant Edward Greenwood IX for playing Solitaire at work: &#8220;The workplace is not an appropriate place for games,&#8221; Bloomberg said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a place where you&#8217;ve got to do the job that you&#8217;re getting paid for.&#8221; Edward finds it a little harsh: &#8220;It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m the only one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/02\/13\/play-solitaire-get-fired\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Play Solitaire, get Fired&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}