Wednesday, October 1, 2008
News City stands by firing of arborist
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:46 PM
The internal investigation conducted by the City of Atlanta into why former arborist Tom Coffin was fired is complete, the AJC reports. Its conclusion? He wasn't a team player, yo.
On Monday, the city’s human resources director wrote a letter to Coffin that said he was fired by the city’s Planning and Community Development department “as a result of an unwillingness or inability to work in a team environment.” The three-page letter says Coffin reinspected properties checked out by co-workers without his supervisor’s approval, unnecessarily issued “punitive citations” as the primary means of tree conservation and that he too frequently sought reprimands against his subordinates instead of trying to mentor them.Coffin denied each of the findings and said he plans to sue the city for wrongful termination.
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