Firing victims — sometimes, there are reasons

[Catchawave]

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Employers bound by privacy concerns can’t defend themselves to the public

By Alex Johnson
Reporter
MSNBC
Updated: 1:41 p.m. ET Sept. 16, 2005


“Those heartless ”:

A Missouri woman is fired after she takes time off from from her assembly-line job at an electronics company to care for her 18-month-old granddaughter, whose parents are trapped in New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.
A Tennessee woman is fired from her job at a discount store after she travels to Mississippi to rescue her brother and sister after Hurricane Katrina struck.
A New Orleans police officer is sidelined pending a formal dismissal hearing for leaving after patrolling for six days at the Louisiana Superdome to find his 103-year-old grandmother and his 76-year-old mother, who were stranded in a hospital by Hurricane Katrina.
The initial reaction, inevitably, is outrage. Can’t those bosses find some compassion somewhere?

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[Der Blaue Engel]

1. Um, yeah.

Read it. Not buyin' it. Somebody's got other issues that warrant firing? Do it LATER. Firing them the day after they come back from this trauma? You just look like a prick.

[ret5hd]

2. i'm not buying it either...

if a person has issues bad enough to warrant firing, fire them for THOSE reasons...not some bogus made up ones that make you look really bad to the public. And if a person has issues that don't warrant firing by themselves...don't fire them!

[ingac70]

3. The girl in Tennessee...

Was fired by Family Dollar because they were pissed she left work early on Thursday but didn't leave until Friday to go get her family.

Her story was she packed up for the trip (food, water, extra gas) and waited for her b-friend to get off work to go with her.

Today the local paper said Family Dollar offered her job back.

I must say I am one of the many that threatend to never shop with them again, and I'm there once a week.

Those @ssholes have alot of cheek, especially with the CRAP wages they pay (she made $7 an hour).

[DistressedAmerican]

4. They Can Defend Their Heartless Actions Any Way They Want.

It all boils down to profits over people. They should all be ashamed of themselves.