State worker scolded for her behavior

COLUMBUS (AP) -- A state worker has been reprimanded after another woman says she and a group of co-workers behaved like "drunken teenagers" during a state agency conference.
The Ohio Department of Job & amp; Family Services issued a reprimand to Debra Axt, 48, for her behavior during an August retreat. A woman who was visiting the Salt Fork State Park in Guernsey County said Axt and several other employees ran amok in the bathroom, repeatedly activating the automatic flush toilets.
The woman told Job & amp; Family Services investigators in an e-mail that Axt donned a pink cowboy hat and acted as the ringleader of the group, yelling obscenities.
"I had to usher my small granddaughters out of the bathroom after they saw adults behaving like drunken teenagers," she said in the e-mail.
The woman said she sent the department her complaint so that she would "not have to look forward to running into any more of your drunk employees on my vacation."
Axt, the chief of the tax compliance section at the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation, told investigators the toilets were malfunctioning.
She has worked for the state for 26 years and has had no other complaints, department Director Barbara Riley said.
Investigators found that Axt was cursing loudly in the bar and that park patrons complained about workers' raucous rounds of karaoke.