Yesterday, we informed you that a few city and state employees used their work email addresses to sign up for Ashley Madison. We told you this because the local media was all over it. I thought focusing the attention only on civic employees seemed unfair.
I understand why this is a big story. It’s interesting, juicy, and kind of funny, but why are we only focusing on government employees? Are they held to a higher moral standard than the people who have better jobs and make more money in the private sector? Why are they the ones being shamed?
And please don’t give me the whole “But they’re wasting taxpayer time and money” bullshit, Person Who’s Reading This Post In Your Cubicle While You Should Be Emailing TPS Reports To Your Boss. Who cares what email address they used? It’s not like taxpayers are charged per the email. If anything, we should give these bright government employees raises and promotions for having the smarts to use an email address their spouse can’t access.
What I really want to know is who in the local media signed up for this service! Let’s judge the ones leading the judging!