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  • Man Texts Probation Officer Looking to Buy Pot

    On average, Americans send and receive over 40 text messages every day. With all of that texting, one is bound to screw up every once in a while and text the wrong person.

    Let’s just call this the most unlucky instance of that.

    WALB is Albany, Georgia says that Alvin Cross Jr. has been sentenced to a couple years in prison after making a really, really costly texting mistake.

    Among others in Cross’ phone likely sits his dealer and his probation officer. I’ll let you guess which one got the message when he texted “You have some weed?”

    The text led to a raid of Cross’ home, in which police found a sack of cocaine. He has reportedly been sentenced to a year in prison for the cocaine, and another year for probation violation. No word on why Cross was on probation in the first place.

    While you may think this couldn’t happen to you, do note that even the famous can make the wrong-medium-for-ordering-drugs mistake.

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  • Suit Claims Google Fired Masseur After He Complained About Masturbating Engineer

    A New Jersey massage therapist is suing Google, as well as a dozen unnamed parties, claiming the company wrongfully terminated his employment after he reported sexual harassment at the hands of another employee.

    Elvis Gardin began providing his massage services at Google in 2008, and was fired in May of 2011. He claims that he always performed his duties in a sufficient manner, and was only terminated after reporting instances of sexual harassment and then taking a leave of absence to care for his sick mother. He’s seeking back pay, front pay, and both compensatory and punitive damages. He says that Google’s actions has caused him to suffer from continual emotional distress and embarrassment.

    “During the course of Plaintiff’s employment, he complained to Defendants…that he was the subject of sexual harassment and unwanted sexual advance by a Google engineer who, among other thing, engaged in masturbation during a massage session at the New York office,” reads the lawsuit.

    Yikes.

    “From and after the time that Plaintiff took family leave to care for his parents, Plaintiff was subject to harassment and retaliation by the Defendants, up to and including the creation of pre-textual and malicious ‘performance improvement plans,’ and the termination of his employment,” the suit continues.

    Gardin is claiming that after reporting the masturbation incident and taking his leave, his supervisors misrepresented his performance and created a pre-text to terminate.

    “It is our allegation that, if a female employee had made the kind of complaint that he made, it would have been handled differently,” Gardin’s lawyer told the NY Daily News.

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