Columbus city employees punished for surfing on job

COLUMBUS - Two city employees have been fired and more than a dozen others reprimanded for spending too much time surfing the Internet on unofficial business. <br> <br> City Manager Carmen Cavezza warned employees in March that both sender and receivers of inappropriate messages would be subject to immediate disciplinary action, including termination. <br> <br> Most of the city&#39;s 2,050 workers have Internet access at work, he said. <br> <br> Since the warning, about 20 people have been called to account for non-work-related surfing. <br> <br> ``Some of those have been disciplined, some have resigned, in which case there would be no disciplinary action in their file,&#39;&#39; human resources director Tom Barron said. <br> <br> Two employees were terminated for improper Internet use, including a judicial administrative technician in Recorder&#39;s Court and a technician in the engineering department, he said.