About That GPS Tracker In Your Cell Phone...

Thanks to Alan Bastable at the golf.com Press Tent blog for spotting this Fran Spielman story in the Chicago Sun-Times about the city employee caught golfing on the clock.

It takes an unhealthy mix of dishonesty and daring for a city employee to drive to a suburban golf course to play 18 holes on the taxpayers' dime.

You've got to be a fool to do it when you're carrying a cell phone with a GPS tracking device.

That's apparently what happened this week, landing the city's $106,115-a-year superintendent of sewers in the disciplinary equivalent of a sand trap.

Winston Cole has been placed on administrative leave with pay after he was tracked to an unidentified suburban golf course when he was supposed to be on the clock at the Water Management Department's South District headquarters, 1054 W. 95th St.

"It's under investigation, and he's on administrative leave with pay" pending disciplinary proceedings, said Tom LaPorte, Water Management spokesman.

When GPS-equipped cell phones were distributed to city employees and tracking devices were installed on city trucks, the stated goal was to increase employee productivity.

Oh that's good. Employee productivity! 

Little did anyone know that GPS would be used to catch someone playing golf.

Right!