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Emergency Dispatcher Fired For Facebook Drug Joke
kaptink writes "Dana Kuchler, a 21-year veteran of the West Allis Dispatch Department, was fired from her job for making jokes on her Facebook page about taking drugs. She appealed to an arbitrator, claiming the Facebook post was a joke, pointing out she had written 'ha' in it, and noting that urine and hair samples tested negative for drugs. The arbitrator said she should be entitled to go back to work after a 30-day suspension, but the City of West Allis complained that was not appropriate. Is posting bad jokes on Facebook a justifiable reason to give someone the boot?"
Agreed, she should not have been given the boot. She should've instead had the FD's boot on her throat. At least that's what the jack-booted thugs in power today seem to think is the way to go.
21 year veteran with mandatory raises is pry a nice chunk of change.
You're probably right. I bet many do pray for a nice chunk of change. It's improbable that they'll get it, but they still pray and pray.
I don't know what she makes but it is pry ridiculous for the amount of skill involved.
Why would you want to pray that it be ridiculous? Really, dude... you're probably a religious man given that you pray so much. No big deal if you are, there's probably a lot of people like you who pray over probably everything.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
How is this "insightful"? Companies have so many different criteria for hiring and retaining employees why is external personal conduct so seemingly extreme? Because a business or government entity has a code of conduct that extends beyond the work place, doesnt make you a "slave" to that company or government entity. Being captured at gun point, put in shackles, and forced to perform some sort of service against your will (the consequences being corporal punishment or death) is slavery. Dont like the job requirements, dont work there.
20th century Marxism is not progress...
>Actually, they can under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. It applies to all US service members regardless of location, in and out of uniform.
>I don't see why something similar wouldn't apply to other nations militiaries or other government organizations...
Because it's just about the most unjust idea since "some people may be forced to labor without reward" ? If I as a private citizen go to a bar, get drunk, get in a fight - I can reasonably expect to be charged with assault and disturbing the peace, and possibly be found guilty. The idea that I can get charged with an ADDITIONAL crime purely on the grounds of the fact that during the day I work for a branch of the government is utterly ludicrous and unjust... and people wonder why I'm a pacifist who thinks soldiers a pitiful weaklings. Nobody with any REAL courage would consent to a life of "following orders with discipline".
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *
For someone with a sneering tone about someone else, you really have an astonishingly tiny brain. Dispatchers *are* the people who answer 911. They answer the 911 calls and then "dispatch" the firefighters or police officers to the scene. You can read all about it here:
http://www.911dispatch.com/jobs/JobDescriptions.html