July 26, 2007 10:27 AM PDT

Texting costs Polish bus driver his job

by Candace Lombardi
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A city bus driver in Poland has been fired for sending $34,000 in text messages from his company cell phone.

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Leszek Wojcik ran up the bill by by sending more than 38,000 SMS messages, about 1,200 a day, in an effort to win a contest, according to a report by the Associated Press.

The Slupsk city bus driver told a local radio station that he hoped to win the contest so he could buy a second car.

The cell phone was only supposed to have a $5 limit, a spokesman for the Slupsk city transportation agency told the AP.

In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our world rotating. A journalist who divides her time between the United States and the United Kingdom, Lombardi has written about technology for the sites of The New York Times, CNET, USA Today, MSN, ZDNet, Silicon.com, and GameSpot. E-mail her at candacelombardi@gmail.com. She is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not a current employee of CNET.
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Yeah, but did he win?
by bjjlyates July 26, 2007 11:28 AM PDT
And I guess he thought his company would pay for the texting?
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My thoughts exactly
by ejevo July 26, 2007 1:31 PM PDT
n/t
He didn't won!
by JabLuszko July 27, 2007 6:56 AM PDT
Nope.
Even not a cent.
No, he didn't
by Camea July 28, 2007 5:07 AM PDT
This guy didn't win and on disciplinary grounds he was dismissed. The debt was secured on the wealth of the family for driver.
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