Single mother fired for saving a life . . .

[Don Vito Corleone]

From here:

SELKIRK, MAN. - A single mother lost her job delivering pizza because she took time off duty to attend to a man who had been shot in the stomach.

Marcella McAulay was working part-time for Frank's Pizza in Selkirk, a town of 10,000 about 30 kilometres north of Winnipeg.

In February, she was driving with a friend in her pizza car when the friend's daughter called to say there had been a shooting on her street. McAulay drove her friend home, but as she pulled up one of two shooting victims called for help.

McAulay, 34, went in the house and stayed with the victims until police and paramedics arrived.

One man was shot in the stomach; another in the wrist. The shooter had fled the scene.

"He was pretty scared and he felt he was dying," McAulay told the weekly Selkirk Journal, referring to the man shot in the stomach. She tried to keep him awake and applied pillows to the wound to slow the bleeding.

Police detained McAulay for questioning, and when she reported back to Frank's Pizza her supervisor, Jason Boyd, fired her. "We feel just as bad as the next guy, but we don't pay employees to be EMTs (emergency medical technicians)," Boyd said.

Boyd wasn't at the store Monday morning, but his assistant, Randy Saluk, told CBC News Online that McAulay was out "joy-riding" with her friend.

He said when she went to help the shooting victim she left her nightly float money in the unlocked pizza car.

The man shot in the stomach is a 33-year-old Winnipeg man. The victim shot in the wrist is a 33-year-old Selkirk man.

Daniel Keep, 33, of Selkirk was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. He remains in custody.

It looks like the negative reviews for Frank's have started to trickle in here.

 

[amnesiac]

Haha reviews = pwn3d!!!

That guy is a Grade "A" Jerk. I'll make a note to take a crap on his doorstep if I ever pass by that place.

 

[ScottyB]

Looks like one business is going down.

 

[ThePresence]

:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|

 

[DeafeningSilence]

Originally posted by: ScottyB
Looks like one business is going down.

Gotta love it when justice serves itself.

 

[Howard]

Vigilante justice will take care of that place soon enough.

 

[BatmanNate]

One small step for humanitarianism, one giant leap for bad PR.

 

[Zenmervolt]

So doing nothing that her friend couldn't have done (or anyone else on the scene for that matter) for the man who was shot gets her a free pass to be careless with company funds and to use company time to drive friends around? She should NOT have been driving friends on company time, that alone is enough to warrant the firing.

ZV

 

[Azraele]

Geeeez.:|

 

[dxkj]

I would think it hilarious if this guy went belly up over this.... but im stupid like that

 

[Maleficus]

reviews = pwn business

 

[Hossenfeffer]

In February, she was driving with a friend in her pizza car ...

As one of the reviewers pointed out, this story is rather one-sided and may fail to consider other possible reasons for the dismissal. Firing her right after she stayed with the shooting victims, however... just bad ju-ju for Frank's if you ask me.

 

[KeyserSoze]

Originally posted by: dxkj
I would think it hilarious if this guy went belly up over this.... but im stupid like that

No, I agree. I would hate for someone to lose their business, and to actually go OUT of business. But COME ON, she tended to a man that had been SHOT! I can't imagine how much hell I would raise if that had happened here locally.



KeyserSoze

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
So doing nothing that her friend couldn't have done (or anyone else on the scene for that matter) for the man who was shot gets her a free pass to be careless with company funds and to use company time to drive friends around? She should NOT have been driving friends on company time, that alone is enough to warrant the firing.

ZV

That is an awfully hard-hearted analysis, but even if you are right that the firing is based solely on driving her friend around on company time (which, notably, does not track well with the manager's statement), anyone with a scrap of common sense would not have fired her, because the resulting publicity will surely ruin business for Frank's Pizza. I say a small-business owner with a brain would have taken advantage of the opportunity for publicity (e.g., "Have your pizza delivered by a life-saver!") rather than firing her.

 

[dxkj]

owner with a brain would have taken advantage of the opportunity for publicity (e.g., "Have your pizza delivered by a life-saver!") rather than firing her.

I think we know what he doesnt even have half of ....

 

[notfred]

told CBC News Online that McAulay was out "joy-riding" with her friend.

This sounds entirely true to me. Why the hell else was she deliviering pizzas with friends in the car?

Why did the daughter call her mom instead of an ambulance? They should have told her to call an ambulance right away, not drove over to his house and see if they could help. They problably didn't call an ambulance cause they have warrants out for thier arrest, or live in a crack house or something. So, they decided they'd try and do a job they weren't qualified for, so that they could hide from the police. And she got fired for it. She probably deserved it. In my experience, people who wont call an ambulance when they get shot aren't typically what you'd call model citizens, and neither are the poeple they hang around with.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
So doing nothing that her friend couldn't have done (or anyone else on the scene for that matter) for the man who was shot gets her a free pass to be careless with company funds and to use company time to drive friends around? She should NOT have been driving friends on company time, that alone is enough to warrant the firing.

ZV

Would the friend have been fast enough?

 

[AnimeKnight]

In February, she was driving with a friend in her pizza car when the friend's daughter called to say there had been a shooting on her street. McAulay drove her friend home, but as she pulled up one of two shooting victims called for help.


I dont' know both sides of stories but what is she doing driving with a friend during working hour? If she doesn't have a legit excuse for driving around with her friend then she deserve to be fired :|

 

[goog]

Originally posted by: Don_Vito

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
So doing nothing that her friend couldn't have done (or anyone else on the scene for that matter) for the man who was shot gets her a free pass to be careless with company funds and to use company time to drive friends around? She should NOT have been driving friends on company time, that alone is enough to warrant the firing.

ZV

That is an awfully hard-hearted analysis, but even if you are right that the firing is based solely on driving her friend around on company time (which, notably, does not track well with the manager's statement), anyone with a scrap of common sense would not have fired her, because the resulting publicity will surely ruin business for Frank's Pizza. I say a small-business owner with a brain would have taken advantage of the opportunity for publicity (e.g., "Have your pizza delivered by a life-saver!") rather than firing her.

Well said, pretty much what I was thinking. She may have deserved being fired for driving friends around while on duty, and this obviously made management aware, but take a second to think how this looks to the public before firing her, doh.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
So doing nothing that her friend couldn't have done (or anyone else on the scene for that matter) for the man who was shot gets her a free pass to be careless with company funds and to use company time to drive friends around? She should NOT have been driving friends on company time, that alone is enough to warrant the firing.

ZV

The only reason I'm sceptical of this analysis is the owner being quoted saying: "We feel just as bad as the next guy, but we don't pay employees to be EMTs."

If he fired her solely because she was out joyriding with a friend, I would hope he'd have come up with a more tactful response.

 

[weezergirl]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
So doing nothing that her friend couldn't have done (or anyone else on the scene for that matter) for the man who was shot gets her a free pass to be careless with company funds and to use company time to drive friends around? She should NOT have been driving friends on company time, that alone is enough to warrant the firing.

ZV

Sure that is fine if that was the reason he fired her but did you read this quote?

"We feel just as bad as the next guy, but we don't pay employees to be EMTs (emergency medical technicians)," Boyd said.

Sorry, but if he was firing her for the specific reasons you stated....a comment like this is just STUPID and shows he has NO heart or brains whatsoever. I don't care if he was just running a business, I'd like to eat at a place that cares about people in general and not just money.

 

[Aceshigh]

Originally posted by: AnimeKnight
In February, she was driving with a friend in her pizza car when the friend's daughter called to say there had been a shooting on her street. McAulay drove her friend home, but as she pulled up one of two shooting victims called for help.


I dont' know both sides of stories but what is she doing driving with a friend during working hour? If she doesn't have a legit excuse for driving around with her friend then she deserve to be fired :|

Exactly.

Sounds like she had been goofing off before. This story is very slanted.

 

[CraigRT]

That's exTREMELY stupid.. very unfair to fire the poor woman. she's obviously a great person, and more than likely did not tend to this person just to miss work.. some people really SUCK! that's not fair for her at all.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: notfred

told CBC News Online that McAulay was out "joy-riding" with her friend.

This sounds entirely true to me. Why the hell else was she deliviering pizzas with friends in the car?

Why did the daughter call her mom instead of an ambulance? They should have told her to call an ambulance right away, not drove over to his house and see if they could help. They problably didn't call an ambulance cause they have warrants out for thier arrest, or live in a crack house or something. So, they decided they'd try and do a job they weren't qualified for, so that they could hide from the police. And she got fired for it. She probably deserved it. In my experience, people who wont call an ambulance when they get shot aren't typically what you'd call model citizens, and neither are the poeple they hang around with.

I think you are making a lot of rather paranoid logical leaps based on little or no evidence. Presumably the daughter was a child, who used questionable judgment in calling her mother rather than an ambulance. The mother, and her friend, may in fact have called an ambulance (since we know one came, along with the police).

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: Don_VitoIt's just wrong!.