Employees Asked To Stop Pooping In The Hallway

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   I know yall think your coworkers are the worst  , but can you imagine working with these folks? Talk about nasty!

EPA Employees Asked To Stop Pooping In The Hallway

Federal employees at the Environmental Protection Agency have been 
instructed to stop defecating in the hallway of a regional office in 
Denver, Colo., according to an internal e-mail obtained by Government Executive.
In
 a staff email earlier this year, Deputy Regional Administrator Howard 
Cantor warned of "several" inappropriate bathroom "incidents" in the 
building, including paper towel-clogged toilets and "an individual 
placing feces in the hallway" outside the restroom.
"Management is
 taking this situation very seriously and will take whatever actions are
 necessary to identify and prosecute these individuals," Cantor wrote in
 his email, asking any employee with knowledge of the individual's 
identity to notify management. 
In addressing the issue, EPA 
management consulted with workplace violence specialist John Nicoletti, 
who called the behavior "very dangerous" and warned that the 
perpetrators would "probably escalate" their behavior, according to GovExec.
EPA
 spokesman Richard Mylott added that Nicoletti’s expertise was sought in
 an effort to maintain a "safe workplace" in a statement to GovExec Wednesday 
The EPA has been plagued with a range of cases involving employee misconduct
 over the last several months, including one ethics violation involving a
 political appointee accepting travel gifts from lobbyists.

Another investigation revealed an employee receiving pay despite having 
moved to a retirement home, where the employee was allegedly not 
employed, one or two years earlier.

In May, another EPA employee was investigated for downloading 7,000 PICS files on his work computer and viewing them two to six hours a day.

The same month, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee accused
 the EPA of sustaining a system riddled with high-ranking fraud and 
"criminal conduct,” costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. 

"This is truly a broken agency," committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said in May.

As of March, EPA’s Office of Inspector General was investigating 78 open integrity cases -- five involving political appointees –- according to the OIG’s employee misconduct report released twice a year.