Posted on 01/17/2020 12:15:10 PM PST by hiho hiho
A Portland U.S. Bank employee said she was fired after giving $20 of her own money to a customer who was broke and stranded at a gas station on Christmas Eve.
The man she helped called her firing “ridiculous.”
“I was a customer of U.S. Bank, I needed help, and she went above and beyond,” said Marc Eugenio of Clackamas. “I felt so bad. She was the only one helping me.”
On Dec. 23, Emily James, a senior banker at a U.S. Bank call center in Portland, said she spent more than an hour trying to help Eugenio, a bank customer whose paycheck from a new job had been placed on hold. The hold meant he couldn’t access the funds – just over $1,000 – and was essentially broke before Christmas.
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The bank was not the place to give out free money.
Too bad she didn’t think first.
One never wants to give the impression that if your story is sad enough, you can go to this teller at this bank and
get some money. Keep acts of charity completely separated from the bank.
Read the story! The bank was holding HIS funds.
Christmas... bah, humbug! /s
I will never do business with a bank that shows no kindness to any one, even to their own employees.
US Bank is on my permanent sh*t list.
Before I get all teary-eyed about stories like this one, I have to ask myself: “What else may have been going on here?”
Still, if everything stated is true, it should equal millions in bad publicity for the bank in question.
If this is true and I have to believe it was verified before it printed, she has a lawsuit on her hands as does her manager.
But even more important is the fact that if I were an employer in the area I would without hesitation call her and her manager and hire them both on the spot....that’s the kind of employee I want to hire!!!!
That is what you got from the article?
She went out of her way to give drive to someone and hand him $20 of her own money.
It was a random act of kindness.
She was fired for putting herself in danger by meeting the customer in person, because that is probably some legal liability. She had permission from her supervisor too
It was HER money, not the bank’s. She did nothing wrong helping someone in need.
I’m proud of her for doing the right thing. I have nothing but contempt for the management at US Bank.
They deserve everything coming to them - and more.
Decent people are hard to find in this world and this brave woman has earned my esteem.
There must be something in the water in Oregon that makes people evil and angry. She should sue US Bank. It was HER money she gave and NOT the Banks.
I was in court on a case where a parent needed a security deposit for an apartment and the opposing counsel offered to pay it. No, you cannot do that kind of stuff.
Why didn’t the worker just do this on her own?
As a side note:
My sister works for a large regional bank. After Dodd-Frank law in 2010, they had to fill 3 floors of a downtown office building with new compliance staff. Hundreds of them. Nothing happens without it being completely put into protocols, regulated and completely documented. The rules are intense.
For above “offense” by this employee, its theoretically possible the bank could be exposed to huge fines by Fed.gov
So I don’t blame the bank, I blame our massive, soviet-style regulatory state.
The bank was withholding HIS money and she gave him HER OWN money.
Was the $20 the bank’s money or hers? The article doesn’t make that clear. If the money was the bank’s, then its actions are more justifiable but even in that case, a stern reprimand to her and her supervisor seems more reasonable. For $20, the bank should not be hard asses and have to deal with the public relations debacle of being seen as the Scrooge of the Year for 2019.
Indeed.
Are there no prisons?
Are there no workhouses?
Good job of holding up FR tradition.
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A Portland U.S. Bank employee said she was fired after giving $20 of her own money to a customer who was broke and stranded at a gas station on Christmas Eve.
The way I see it, being kind is one of the things we’re losing sight of in our society.
It all makes us better people. I’d give the shirt off my back to someone In need of it.
I don’t care what society says. I will always do the right thing, even to my own hurt.
Her interaction with the customer was at a gas station 14 miles from the bank.
Yes with her own money. She didn’t steal. And her boss gave her permission to help the customer.
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