After employees of the federal Bonneville Power Administration in Portland, Oregon, complained of wet typewriter keys, yellow-stained sweaters, and office plants that were dying, an infrared camera was installed in their work area. It soon captured a computer specialist in the office urinating on various things. His superiors put him on administrative leave, under full pay, and entered him into a treatment program. After six months it was determined that he shouldn't be returned to his workplace, and termination was recommended. Nine months later, months in which he continued to receive his paycheck, he was discharged. The employee immediately appealed his termination to the Merit Systems Protection Board and six months later won the appeal. The judge ruled that the employee posed no threat to fellow workers and ordered him reinstated at his old job and reimbursed for lost back pay. At last report, the BPA appealed the ruling, but the man was back on the payroll and still not in the workplace.

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