“It’s dispiriting to see how many freepers are running roughshod over a private companies freedoms.”
I agree with you. To assume that the company should be punished for enforcing reasonable rules - suppliers contacted, business avoided is a tad harsh.
What is missing in this story is whether this woman tried to let her bosses know in advance that she was going to get a call from a son in Afghanistan during work hours. If it is so important to her, why didn’t she do this? The company may well have been much more reasonable about things if they could plan for it. Sorry, I see this as typical “stick it to the boss-man” behavior.
I don’t blame her for wanting to take her sons phone call, but I don’t blame the company for not wanting her to use a cell phone either. She could have been proactive, but wasn’t. Why?
Yep. Bad publicity for the company - maybe this, along with Freeper actions to punish this company will run them straight out of business. That would be good, right?
Wrong. This is a very good company to work for. I have seen them bend over backwards to try and make people happy, and accommodate their personal problems. Good management, friendly work environment, great people from the top on down. This person could have talked to management and made special arrangements, but chose not to and went the drama queen combative in your face route. I know, because I work there. Even after this stunt they will still try and keep her on, and make her happy when they could have just let her go. With the amount of unemployed people here it would take no time at all to fill her job. This is not what the company did. Jobs are scarce out here in the middle of nowhere, and there are many people that are happy to have one, and to work for Crane. (Including me) There is a very good reason for their cell phone policy. This is a manufacturing facility, and cell phones are a distraction to both attention and productivity. Someone really could get hurt. It only takes a second for a machine to punch a hole through your finger or to get run over by a tow motor.