Posted on 03/25/2019 10:07:44 PM PDT by EinNYC
A Verizon worker was suspended from his job for rescuing a cat which was stranded on top of a telephone pole.
Maurice German was working in a neighborhood in Port Richmond, Pennsylvania last Saturday, when a resident asked him to help rescue 'Momma' the cat.
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Verizon hates cats. There’s gotta be a better service.
Good public relations......
Fact: Cats get up poles on their own, they can get down on their own.
How many cat skeletons have you seen in trees or on telephone poles?
In the movie Roxanne Steve Martin gets the cat out of the tree
with a can of cat food.
Not big on ‘there should be a law’ but there should be a law legally indemnifying employees who act to save life, limb or property.
This is the standard for company vehicles. It’s an insurance thing. Legally Verizon could have fired him.
Idiots. They could have used this in their favor.
actually we had a cat up a tree for three days and growing weaker.
We finally got her down.
was not our brightest cat...but sweet.
Who put me there?
“This is the standard for company vehicles. It’s an insurance thing. Legally Verizon could have fired him.”
You’re absolutely right. It was a judgment call on Verizon’s part. I think if I were that employee’s supervisor, I would have given him a written record of a verbal warning. No harm done, no need to make a federal case out of it.
On the other hand, had something bad happened as a result of the feline rescue attempt, punishment would be more severe and in accordance with the damage done.
It’s ultimately the lawyers who got us here.
Our nation is largely a bunch of apathetic droids who don’t want to ‘get involved’ for fear of being sued, fired, or publicly shamed.
Dealing with a frightened, unpredictable animal on top of a telephone pole. What could possibly go wrong?
And would workman’s comp cover it if he ended up seriously injured?
I had a cat that would climb up to the second story window to my bedroom via claws on the wood siding. I’d have to let her in by gently popping off the screen she was glued to, lol. Lord only knows how she got back down the times I wasn’t there to let her in. But she must have gotten down the same way she got up.
I quit them 1.5 years ago. They have stupid people working in their store close to my house.
A cat is one thing. If it had been a somali illegal stuck on a pole trying to steal copper , Id refuse any assistance.
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