Let him drown or YOU'RE FIRED!

This disgusts me. I hope every municipality that has a contract with this company drops it:

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-07-03/news/fl-hallandale-beach-lifeguards-20120703_1_lifeguard-services-jeff-ellis-beach-rescue

 

Rules are rules.

 

Human life is more important than a job. If a person sees another drowning, anyone who has the training and skills is naturally going to save that person, even it if requires "going out of our jurisdiction" and silly man-made rules.

This person should have a lot of good things happen to him the rest of his life because he saved one. Including, one can hope, a flood of job offers.

 

"Well, officer, I saw a person across the street having a heart attack. But I didn't have the walk signal, and I didn't want to get a ticket for jaywalking. By the time the light changed, he was dead. Sorry, but at least I followed the law!"

 

UNCALLED FOR.

 

What's important is that we turn more and more of these jobs over to the private sector.

[Shouts "opportunity!," sets copy of Florida tax code on fire, paraglides out of sight.]

 

I'm confident the invisible hand would have rescued him.

 

Jeff Ellis and Associates: Because company rules are more important than common sense

 

If the lifeguard is making $8.25 an hour, can someone explain this graf to me?

 

I'm not familiar with Florida law, but in some states if you have medical/CPR training and don't do anything, you can be sued/criminally charged. This guy, obviously did the only/right thing without taking into consideration any company "rules."

 

Not that it'll matter, but per the article he went 1,500 feet beyond the boundary of his zone. Surely everyone would agree that there has to be some limit to how far a lifeguard should go.

 

To save someone's life? I don't agree with that.