Can Gannett sink any lower?

A sales rep for Gannett Local in Phoenix was fired for missing sales goals after taking sick and personal days for testing in preparation to donate her kidney to a stranger.

You'd think Gannett could have used this situation to foster goodwill in the community.

http://www.kpho.com/news/27379792/detail.html

 

Her bad. If she had been donating it to Craig Dubow, maybe she would have kept her job.

 

The answer to this question for any newspaper company is always yes.

 

She should have used her furlough days.

 

The Phoenix NBC affiliate is reporting she totally understands the decision and has no complaints about her treatment.

Anyone care to guess who owns the NBC affiliate?

 

Usually, when people are laid off they have no complaints because the workplace threatens to take away their severance package or whatever.

 

The link to the video didn't work on my machine. But reading the story, the woman who is to receive the kidney had a foreign-sounding name.

They could have kept the woman, done the story, and had the story mainstreamed! They could have killed two birds with one stone.

But nope. They've got to act like typical corporate jackasses. And the end of the story just tops itself. The station calls for comment, and gets an automated response to be routed to the "appropriate department."

Yep, way to be hyperlocal there, Gannett.

 

When you're terminated, not laid off, you usually don't get a severance package. If this woman doesn't pursue some form of lawsuit she needs a brain transplant more than a liver.

 

She should have donated her soul to Craig Dubow.

 

She's better off now than she was a week ago. She doesn't have to work for Gannett anymore, and somebody will hire her sooner rather than later. At least that's what I'd like to think.

 

Gannett is the demon seed. It was before and will be after this story.

 

No good deed goes unpunished .... by Gannett!