More hospital workers fired for being blizzard no-shows...

[HipChick]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/03/AR2010030303833.html
21 District hospital workers fired for being blizzard no-shows


Hospital officials would not say how many employees faced other disciplinary actions, such as suspensions.

Daniel Fields Jr., president of SEIU 722, which represents the hospital's non-professional employees, including janitorial and clerical staff, said many members were suspended without pay for the amount of time they missed, including a legally blind man who could not get to the operating room where he works because Metro's bus service for the disabled was not running.

That man, whom Fields said he could not identify because he feared for the man's job, also could not walk to work because he's had both hips replaced. A hospital spokesman said she could not comment on individual cases.

[ananda]

1. I'm not even sure hell is bad enough for those unfeeling bastards.

Sheesh.

[MineralMan]

2. How convenient. The hospital gets to unload some employees

they normally couldn't dismiss without major hassles. They couldn't dismiss them because of their disabilities, so they use non-attendance as the reason. That just sucks!

[TwilightGardener]

3. Nice.

[Ilsa]

4. Hospital officials always get the best of care. There are usually

especially nice rooms built for "special patients", and their nurses usually have fewer other patients assigned to them so that they can be at the beck-and-call of the priviledged. How do I know this? I've worked it.

These people are disgusting. Fuck 'em.