What she did was ridiculous and shameful, but this is just a reminder how much standards have changed in 2021.
Now, if you have an episode as a mean drunk, somebody films and uploads it, you can be fired without warning.
It wasn’t always so cut and dried.
If used to be; when an employee’s behavior directly effects their employer, first offense, the employee gets a verbal warning, second offense, the employee is written up, offered retraining and is put on probation. Third offense, 3 strikes, you’re out.
In the past as a Shift Manager, I’ve had to fire people myself. That was like 10 years ago.
Now, it seems that no one gets a second chance any more.
I’m glad to be semi-retired. I rarely got into any trouble, but still, the difference of methods is striking.
CVS is unbelievably progressive. I can’t believe they didn’t give her an award and promotion.
...no one gets a second chance anymore.
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You said it yourself. Somebody films it and uploads it right away. The impact on a business is immediate unless the company is proactive and terminates the employee.
Before the internet, things like this spread via word of mouth and rumor and needed to be egregious like pushing a crippled woman down a flight of stairs. Orherwise, you got a warning.
There is no room for people to make mistakes anymore.
The world, as it has grown smaller due to the Internet, has become a very harsh and unforgiving place. If you were to have a bad day in the past, you had a chance at surviving it, keeping your job, and having a life. Now, everyone has the possibility of getting their "Fifteen Minutes of Fame", and not always in a good way.
It brings to mind an incident from a few years back. There was a snowstorm in Pennsylvania that caused flights in and out of the airport to be cancelled, so they put up the flight crew at a nearby motel which had a bar nearby they could drink at. It was a bitter cold February night, down near or below zero degrees.
Later that night, the local Fire Chief heard some noise in his garage, so he walked in and turned on a light. To his surprise, there was a completely naked young woman rummaging around in his truck looking for a flashlight.
She was completely hammered and nearly incomprehensible, so he called the police. When the police arrived, they managed to discern that she was a flight attendant, and had been over at the bar with the pilot, both had imbibed too much alcohol, and they had walked out into the woods to have sex. They had taken off their clothes, and the intoxicated pilot, now naked, had passed out in a snowbank. She tried to find her clothes so she could get some help, but found that not only could she not find her clothes, she couldn't find the naked pilot who had passed out in the snowbank. She managed to stagger out of the woods and came upon the Fire Chief's garage where she was discovered in her nakedness by the Fire Chief.
The police tried to get her to show them where the guy was before he froze to death while passed out in naked in that snowbank subzero only to find out she was so drunk and they had gone so far out into the large forest that she could not lead them back to the guy.
They had to use an army of volunteers, bloodhounds and helicopters with infrared equipment to find him before he froze to death. They did finally discover his unconscious, splayed and supine figure in the snowbank with his (and her) clothing nowhere in sight. He was still alive, and the couple had been a lot further into the woods than anyone imagined possible.
The whole thing, with the tawdryness and media exposure compelled the authorities to slap both of them with all kinds of charges ranging from lewd and lascivious behavior to felonious breaking and entering. The airline decided it had to punish them both by invoking "The 12 Hour Bottle to Throttle" rule (of which they were in obvious violation of) and thereby causing their employment to be terminated with the resultant story pasted nearly everywhere on the Internet (which basically means everywhere on earth) so now you are famous in a Twenty-First Century kind of way just because you were doing what comes naturally to humans, intensified by and lubricated with boredom, alcohol and lust...
Point is, in the past, this might have made the local papers, even the paper in the nearest large city, but the story would have likely died there, even though they still probably would have faced a variety of charges and been fired from the airline for violating the drinking guidelines.
Instead, they achieved an unwanted global fame for that terrible fifteen minutes. They had Chinese speaking people in Taiwan, Aussies down under, and citizens in Finland all reading the story and chuckling with glee that often accompanies stories of those caught in flagrante delicto, particularly a guy who, as the saying goes, "has his d**k caught in a vise" because of it.
Honestly. This 24 hour surveillance we are all under now makes me glad I grew up in a time where everyone didn't carry a video camera around with them or the means to send it to a global audience in a matter of seconds.