EPA Tells Employees To Stop Pooping In The Hallway
Federal employees at the EPA have been up to a number of strange things recently, building secret man caves, even pretending to be CIA agents, but some employees are now reportedly being told to stop pooping in the hallway.
According to an internal email obtained by Government Executive, management at the Denver, Colorado office of the EPA had to plead with employees to stop their inappropriate bathroom behavior, which included defecating in the hallway. Deputy Regional Administrator Howard Cantor pointed to several incidents in the email, which included toilets being clogged with paper towels and “an individual placing feces in the hallway.” EPA employees were urged to notify management if they had knowledge of who was responsible for placing the feces in the hallway.
EPA management took the situation so seriously, they hired a consultant to deal with the bathroom incidents. John Nicoletti, a “national expert” on workplace violence, told EPA management that the behavior was “very dangerous,” adding that feces left in a hallway pose a health and safety risk. Nicoletti expressed his opinion that the incidents were likely to escalate.
EPA spokesman Richard Mylott explained that Nicoletti’s expertise was sought in an effort to ensure a safe working environment for employees, The Huffington Post reports. In a statement released Wednesday (June 25), Mylott said that “EPA cannot comment on ongoing personnel matters. EPA’s actions in response to recent workplace issues have been deliberate and have focused on ensuring a safe work environment for our employees.”
The EPA has been plagued recently with employee misconduct issues. As The Inquisitr previously reported, an EPA employee was found earlier this year to be spending between two to six hours of each work day viewing pornography. Surprisingly, rather than facing termination, that employee was instead still collecting their salary.
Another EPA employee was recently sentenced to 32 months in jail for pretending to be a CIA agent, while in actuality defrauding the government. According to Government Executive, EPA contractors also built secret man caves in a Landover, MD warehouse while at work. The EPA contract with the warehouse owner, Apex Logistics, LLC., was cancelled, although the agency had already paid over $5 million since the contract’s inception in May of 2007. According to The Hill, as of March, the EPA’s Office of Inspector General was investigating 78 open cases of employee ethics and integrity. One EPA employee investigated by the Inspector General admitted to accessing child pornography, while another, a political appointee, was accused of accepting a gift of travel from a lobbyist.
The investigation into the incidents in the hallway of the EPA’s Denver office is ongoing.
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