Society didn't have computers then either.
nor jet passenger planes. cell phones, etc...
Don't know if you fly or not, or if you use a cell phone but we know you use a computer - can't you learn to live without it?
What an ass-inine post.
Posted on 02/20/2011 9:45:32 AM PST by GailA
WOODBURY, Tenn. - A military mom said she would do anything to answer her son's phone call from overseas, no matter what the cost.
Some seven months ago, Lance Corporal Mark Rhyne left the little town of Woodbury, for the remote deserts of Afghanistan.
"I told my son the day he deployed as he was about to get on that bus, 'I will stand in your steed while you are gone, I will stand,'" his mother Teresa Danford said.
On Monday, while working inside the Crane Interiors factory, Teresa Danford said she kept her word.
Mark called from Afghanistan, using a Satellite phone. It was a rare opportunity he only gets maybe once a month.
"You don't want to miss a word because truthfully that might be the last time you hear from them," Danford said.
Danford knew about Crane's no cell phone policy but answered anyway.
"There is nothing in this world that would stop a mother from answering a phone call from her son and what if it was not my son? What if he'd been hurt and someone was trying to contact me?" asked Danford.
The next day, Teresa was suspended from work without pay for three days. This was a first offense, and managers told her next time, she'd be fired.
"I said 'you are aware that my son is serving in Afghanistan and he can only call me when that sat phone gets to his unit' and he looked me straight in the eyes and said 'yes,'" Danford said.
Larry Officer is a Human Resource Manager at Crane Interiors. He sent NewsChannel 5 the following statement: "It is our policy that there is to be no cell phones used during working hours due to safety concerns within a production environment. Employees are allowed to use cell phones during breaks and lunches. We have a communicated policy for all employees to be reached in case of an emergency."
Danford said she fully expects to be fired for going public. But she remembered the promise she made to her son, the promise to always support him.
"If I didn't do this, then I couldn't live with myself. So if I lose my job, I lose my job. But I will have done what I gave my son my word that I would do," Danford added.
A lot of people have gotten wind of this story already, and they're not ignoring it.
A petition was posted online to demand that military family members are granted the right to answer calls from their loved ones serving over seas.
That's all Danford was asking for. She said talking to her son once a month gives her peace of mind, and gives her son the strength he needs to continue his work overseas.
Danford's son is scheduled to return home in a month, when he'll meet his son for the first time.
Email: ahara@newschannel5.com
Sounds to me like this policy was put in place for a good reason. If she wants to be in a position to take a call from her son 24/7, perhaps she should have got a different job. She used her son's service as a moral bludgeon to ignore rules that might well have been their for other people's safety as well as her own...
Nothing like a public ass grinding to make a Company see the light.I bet their phones lite up like a Christmas tree after the tv exposure.
Woodbury is serious social conservative but with too many whites on the government tittie rural area...pretty country too about where the Cumberland plateau starts up..very hilly
Short Mountain is the highest point in US between Ozarks and Cumberlands/Allegheny range..around 2200 feet ...just a big bump...planes used to hit it frequently way back
lotsa Mansons too...and a zillion Higgins too
Cannon county..I like it...
had a crooked sherrif a few years back mand folks died over it...one should walk carefully there if you push folks too hard
bout 18 miles due east of college and Yankee laden Murfreesboro but a world of difference
Thanks for the contact info. Will send them a little “love” letter. Amazing how this woman can be fired while the union thugs in Wisconsin abuse their positions and are sacrosanct
Society didn't have computers then either.
nor jet passenger planes. cell phones, etc...
Don't know if you fly or not, or if you use a cell phone but we know you use a computer - can't you learn to live without it?
What an ass-inine post.
Bull hockey.....the company already apologised,paid her for her time off, and is revising said policy.
Your point is moot.
My son is in Iraq. I agree with this Mom. NOTHING could prevent me from taking a call from him short of a life-endangering emergency underway when the phone rang.
Jobs can be replaced. Children cannot.
Having said that, the company is certainly within its rights. There’s no law against being stupid and callous.
If there were, we’d have no liberals! :-)
The trouble with so many things in today's society is idiots who can't understand a little bending of the rules for a good reason.I suppose the "it's the rule" crowd is fine with the zero-tolerance policies that suspend a kid for a butter knife as though it were a bayonet.
We are dealing with availability, time zones, all kinds of crazy things for a Soldier just to make a call once a month.
The mom didn’t abuse the policy.
I’ve worked assembly lines, some one is always available to take your slot on a temporary basis so you can make an unscheduled exit for the restroom, etc.
Your comments make sense, and for the most part do work. But some times you get a lousy supervisor who makes no exceptions.
I’m surprised at the number of meanspirited, selfish Freepers on this thread.
The company is a manufacturing company, and the policy of no cell phones during work hours is apparently a result of the comapny caring for the safety of their employees, and the well being of the company.
It’s dispiriting to see how many freepers are running roughshod over a private companies freedoms.
But she knew guns were pointed at her son's head every day - and firing.
During my grandson's first tour in the 'ghan, his platoon fought off over 1,000 firefights...many were lost.
He grew up in my home. When he got that once a month shot at calling - damn well sure I'd take the call NO MATTER WHERE OR WHEN...
I'm guessing you haven't had a son or close relative serving there lately?
Any company that would not have the brains to make an exception to their non-war time rules, is brain dead.
See good things can happen. thank god for computers internet video and cell phones. During my Vietnam days the only way to contact home was by US Mail or Ham Radio.........
True.
I want to say “You suck...” but I won’t.
Case closed.
Probably because of all the bad publicity. If it weren’t for the internet nobody would have known.
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