Difficult for me to side with a union, but yeah, in this case? Good for them in filing a grievance.
Poor guy, I hope his union wins for him. He’ll still have a target painted on his back for all his remaining days there though.
Tiger is correct about the target thing.
What the hell has happened to common sense? Just what did those jerks expect him to do? Leave it there? Any law abiding citizen would have turned it in, after considering whether or not to keep it first. lol.
I think this is one of those times when it’s okay to be offended and pissed off on behalf of someone else.
So here is the obvious liberal conundrum of this situation - since the boss fired him, does he still qualify for his Union pension or not? Bet that and that alone is why the Union filed paperwork - they need all those pensions to keep the money flowing in - and eventually collapse the system so that the Federal Gov takes over providing those pensions - and the pension is also probably why this jerk of a boss fired him - thinking that they won’t have to pay out a pension if the guy is fired rather than retiring.
What a joke - but hey our front page is finally printing stories about how busted the city budget is - and it is the fault of all the city workers pensions that they are required to pay.
I am so sick of these liberals saddling future generations with the unintended consequences of their pathetic attempts to destroy capitalism in America.
And in the end, the only people who get hurt - are the ones stupid enough to believe these evil people are helping them and vote for them and their schemes.
LAWSUIT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Screw the union part, this is pure bullshit!
Age discrimination.
What else can you expect in liberal hellhole like Detroit.
Next worker who finds a gun will either leave it where it sits or throw it in the river.
The guy shoulda kept his yap sealed, took the gun home and hid it in his cellar.
That would have prevented TWO problems.
1) He wouldn’t have been fired.
2) If a burglar entered his house BANG!
The proper procedure is:
Do not touch.
Surely someone had a cellphone, dial 911 and report it. Don’t ‘wait for a police officer to drive by’.
At least that was the procedure I had to follow. He’ll probably be reinstated unless the company can show that they’d trained him on how to handle such a situation. The Postal Service runs into all kinds of weird stuff like that, and trains their employees. Example: we treated those blue collection boxes on street corners as HazMat. Anything from used condoms, dirty diapers, used hypodermic needles can be found in there with the mail. If you’ve noticed that those blue mail boxes have been vanishing, that’s why. That’s not counting the kids who think throwing a lit match in there is funny.
Something similar happened to me once as a mailman. I was delivering a four-unit apartment building. There’d been a drive-by shootout with return fire from the apartment building. Glad I’d missed that. Despite a small crowd, nobody saw anything.
The mail wouldn’t go into #3. I peeked in and there was a revolver in there. Fortunately I didn’t have to call the cops. Four of them were already there. The cops were looking for spent shell casings. At this moment a large black man slammed the door open, pushed me to the stairs, grabbed the gun and ran upstairs to…#3.
Obviously I exited quickly shouting ‘Man with a gun, apartment 3!’ Three of the officers entered the building, cautiously. The fourth took me behind a squad car and took my statement. Then I had to wait until the guy was led out in handcuffs. Why did I have to wait? I’d left the mailboxes unlocked and hanging open. I secured the mailboxes and continued on the route.
Moral of the story? Unless you know the mail has already run, don’t hide your firearm in your mailbox.
I did let my supervisor know what had happened and that I might be back a little late. It was about 30 minutes before they had him in custody. So I didn’t quite keep to schedule that day.
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