No good deed goes unpunished...

This is management at its dumbest.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035778986423&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154

SELKIRK, MAN.—A single mother who was fired from her part-time job delivering pizza after she helped a gunshot victim on company time doesn't regret her actions.

"Walking away, I just wouldn't have been able to live with myself," Marcella McAulay, 34, said yesterday.

McAulay was on a shift for Frank's Pizza in Selkirk, some 30 kilometres north of Winnipeg, on Feb. 26 when a friend who was riding with her received a call that there had been a shooting near her home.

McAulay planned to drop her friend off, but the situation escalated quickly when she stopped her car near the shooting scene.

"One of the victims opened up the door and yelled at me to come and help him. Another man was on the floor and was bleeding quite badly," she said.

McAulay rushed into the house to help. She sat with the man who was shot, kept him awake and pressed pillows on his wound to slow the bleeding.

After paramedics and RCMP arrived, McAulay was held up for several more hours because she had to give a statement.

When she returned to the restaurant, she was fired. Yesterday she received her severance slip.

"We feel just as bad as the next guy, but we don't pay employees to be EMTs (emergency medical technicians), which she isn't," supervisor Jason Boyd told the Selkirk Journal last week.

Boyd said he didn't fire McAulay for helping the gunshot victim. "She was away from her job for no good reason." The owners of Frank's Pizza could not be reached for comment yesterday.

The victim is recovering. A 33-year-old man has been charged













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For once,I agree with you Yogs.:p It's a poor boss who doesn't recognise that helping in times of crisis takes priority over two hawaiian deep pans with a side order of garlic bread.The factory that I work for is in a small town 45 minutes' drive from the city.Most of the emergency service personnel are volunteers.A few of the boys at the factory are volunteer firefighters.In simple terms,this means that when the fire siren sounds,we lose production as several key people shut down their machines and race out of the door.The guys in Head Office tried to put a stop to it until it was pointed out to them that if the plant caught fire,those volunteers were the only skilled people who would be on hand to tackle the fire for the firt 30 minutes.We'd all like to think that if we got into distress in a public place that someone would care enough to help us out.WHAT A SHAME THAT SOME PEOPLE CAN'T SEE PAST THE DOLLAR COST OF GIVING A HAND.

Ya know, If I were that woman, Id kick that guy square in the nuts as hard as I could and then yell "UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD ANY EMPLOYEE HELP THIS MAN, YOU'LL BE FIRED FOR HELPING ON COMPANY TIME!"