Fired 'Gangnam Style' lifeguards to get jobs back
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EL MONTE, Calif. (AP) — Fourteen lifeguards fired last month after appearing in uniform at the city pool in a parody of "Gangnam Style," the Korean pop music video that has been viewed hundreds of millions of time online, are getting their jobs back.
The City Council in the Southern California town of El Monte voted to rehire them pending a management review at the aquatic center, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reported.
The lifeguards' parody of the video by Korean pop star PSY showed them in city-issued swimsuits dancing underwater and on diving boards at the pool. The "Gangnam Style" video has spawned countless such spoofs.
City officials had said the workers violated employee conduct standards and prohibitions on use of city property. The lifeguards countered, saying they were off the clock when they made the video.
The controversy quickly gained attention, as the lifeguards received support from many local residents — and even from PSY.
Hundreds of people attended a City Council meeting this month to defend them. At that meeting, it was announced that a contractor had been hired to review the aquatic center's management, policies and procedures, including the steps leading to their firing.
Mayor Andre Quintero recommended they be rehired, saying that if the lifeguards were employed, they would be more likely to cooperate with the independent review.
Opponents said they wanted to see the results of the investigation completed before deciding whether the lifeguards should get their jobs back.
The council voted 3-2 on Tuesday to allow them to return.
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The City Council in the Southern California town of El Monte voted to rehire them pending a management review at the aquatic center, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reported.
The lifeguards' parody of the video by Korean pop star PSY showed them in city-issued swimsuits dancing underwater and on diving boards at the pool. The "Gangnam Style" video has spawned countless such spoofs.
City officials had said the workers violated employee conduct standards and prohibitions on use of city property. The lifeguards countered, saying they were off the clock when they made the video.
The controversy quickly gained attention, as the lifeguards received support from many local residents — and even from PSY.
Hundreds of people attended a City Council meeting this month to defend them. At that meeting, it was announced that a contractor had been hired to review the aquatic center's management, policies and procedures, including the steps leading to their firing.
Mayor Andre Quintero recommended they be rehired, saying that if the lifeguards were employed, they would be more likely to cooperate with the independent review.
Opponents said they wanted to see the results of the investigation completed before deciding whether the lifeguards should get their jobs back.
The council voted 3-2 on Tuesday to allow them to return.
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Guess the city has a lot of money and time to waste, going around firing people for dancing OFF the clock. They should have checked into the facts before they fired these lifeguards. NO doubt a bunch of Progressive Democrats that do nothing more than waste tax dollars.
We will get you A holes out of YOUR jobs ASAP
HOW does anyone keep anything clean when it comes to talking about Democrats? Nothing but lies, waste, entitlements, bullying, fraud and now Treason as it relates to Benghazi.
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These people don't check the facts out before they fly off the handle, firing people. If they had taken a few of these lifeguards aside they would have found out that they were OFF the clock when they did their little dancing in the water.
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This kind of thing has to stop with people who make too big of an issue about something before they ask a few questions..Â
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The way I see it, the city should dock these administrators paychecks for wasting tax payers money in this firing situation. Maybe next time they WILL check things out before they leap off the diving board.