Citizens Office of Corporate Integrity can’t compete with Coyote Ugly [The Miami Herald]
By Fred Grimm, The Miami Herald | |
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So when the two management-level babes from Citizen's human resources department, one of whom happened to be the assistant director, climbed atop the bar, discarded their bras and did a bit of dancing, one twirling her garment around overhead like a lariat, we could maybe shrug off their performance off as a rather novel attempt at HR morale boosting. (I'm firing off a note to the Herald's own HR department, demanding, "What about our damn morale?")
Hey. They could hardly help themselves. Investigators from the
And like I said, we've all had drunken moments we'd like to erase from history. The really nice thing about working for Citizens is that forgetting about scandalous instances of corporate misconduct appears to be official company policy.
In fact, a 73-page report by the investigators from its own
The damning report was reduced to a few innocuous pages. The original was secreted away and might have been consigned to oblivion had it not been unearthed by Herald reporter Toluse Olorunnipa. The four investigators from the Citizen's office of corporate integrity, who compiled all that embarrassing stuff, were fired. And the office was eliminated. It was like magic. Poof. And all history of bad behavior just disappeared. Or would have, had not Toluse come nosing around.
His reporting comes at a less than propitious time for Citizens, which has enraged its hurricane policy holders by jacking up rates 10.8 percent and running a nitpicking "re-inspection" program that seemed to be a charade, just an excuse to tack on another
And there was the unrestrained spending by Citizens executives uncovered by The Herald/Times last summer, the nights in the Ritz-Carlton and the
The peasants, as Citizen bosses seem to regard their 1.4 million policy holders, were already in the mood to grab their pitchforks march on the Citizens execs, either at their headquarters or at Coyote Ugly, depending on whether or not the revolt happened to coincide with happy hour.
Against all that, you could understand why Citizens might want to lose a scandal-laden report from the
The report has this stuff about the braless bar dancing in
But if the rowdy behavior was too much, even by Citizens' permissive standards, getting fired could be pretty lucrative. The report found Citizens had written checks amounting to
The problem, of course, is that Citizens, while giving away big chunks of severance money to its naughty party boys and paying law firms to not ferret out bad behavior by other employees, was simultaneously putting the big squeeze on Floridians.
Finally, even Gov.
But it seems pretty self-explanatory. When Citizens got rid of its
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