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City worker regrets role in crude videos
By TIMES WIRES
Published June 8, 2007
PINELLAS PARK A public works technician says he would never have taken part in raunchy videos shown on a shock jock's Web site had he known he could be fired. "This job is very important to me, " Thomas Parmentier said Thursday during a hearing to determine if he should keep his job of more than nine years. Parmentier was suspended without pay earlier this month after Pinellas Park officials discovered he had appeared as "Tom the Treeman" in several videos on Bubba the Love Sponge's Web site. The videos showed Parmentier performing some crude acts. City officials said the actions reflected badly on Pinellas Park. The ultimate firing decision will come from City Manager Mike Gustafson. BROOKSVILLE Bleacher builder to leave Pinellas Park The Hernando County Corporate Airpark will soon have another new resident, county officials announced Thursday. Seating Constructors USA Inc., which constructs and installs bleachers and grandstands, is moving its business from Pinellas Park and expanding. The new home for the company will be an 18, 000-square-foot manufacturing facility under construction on a 3-acre site at the industrial park. The company expects the site to be ready by January and plans to have 40 employees. The company began in 1999 as a steel erector that specialized in bleachers and grandstands. Within three years, it developed its own line of products.
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by Russ
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06/08/07 08:45 PM
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Agree with Ken and Fred and 'yes' to Cindy.
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by Lew
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06/08/07 06:40 PM
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sure he's sorry now that he lost his job! But before he got canned that was his "pic-up-story" and if you listened to him for more then a minute you'd think he was a real porn star!! fire him!!
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by John
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06/08/07 12:10 PM
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Amen, Ken.
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by Cindy
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06/08/07 11:07 AM
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Did Fred & Ken support Susan Stanton's bid to keep her job?
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by Fred
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06/08/07 09:28 AM
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His ability to keep his job should be based on his work performance, not a performance he gave for a camera. First Amendment comes to mind.
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by Ken
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06/08/07 07:42 AM
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Stupid - yes. But I fail to see a nexus between his job and his off-duty behavior. Besides, nothing can reflect as poorly on Pinellas Park as Pinellas Park.
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