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glatt · 09-02-2006, 08:02 AM

I've always considered it easy to fire an employee who isn't performing as expected, but I forget that with cops and some other jobs, there are unions involved.

From today's washington post, we hear that the Metro train operator who fell asleep in 2004 and crashed his train into another one, injuring 20 people and causing $3.5 million in damage, was improperly fired. He is being rehired and given two years of back-pay.

Nobody is contesting the fact that he crashed the train, and was almost certainly asleep at the wheel. The reason he was fired improperly is that there's a certain schedule to follow when firing someone, and Metro messed up the sequence of dates for firing this guy.

At least they won't let him drive a train again. He'll be paid to stand around on the platform with a clipboard.

09-02-2006, 08:02 AM	#114
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I've always considered it easy to fire an employee who isn't performing as expected, but I forget that with cops and some other jobs, there are unions involved. From today's washington post, we hear that the Metro train operator who fell asleep in 2004 and crashed his train into another one, injuring 20 people and causing $3.5 million in damage, was improperly fired. He is being rehired and given two years of back-pay. Nobody is contesting the fact that he crashed the train, and was almost certainly asleep at the wheel. The reason he was fired improperly is that there's a certain schedule to follow when firing someone, and Metro messed up the sequence of dates for firing this guy. At least they won't let him drive a train again. He'll be paid to stand around on the platform with a clipboard.