Question by lisa f: See if this corporate action bothers you.?
I was working through college for my LPN (licensed Practical Nurse) certificate while working third shift at a BP gas station in Grove-City, OH.
Until last last tuesday and why do you ask because I broke company policy and went out into the parking lot to save a woman from being vicously beat to death by a man.
I understand I broke company policy and was a liability to the company a financial liability which might have cost the company some of their billlions in profits.
But if you or your daughter or your mother or grandmother ws being beat to death for no reason in the parking lot would you want the employee to stand inside the store and do nothing but call the police? And a note I must insert is that the franklin township police took 25-30 minutes to respond way to long to do any good life or health wise.
The man attacked the woman and as soon as I came out he attacked me and basically tried killing me when he tried pushing me through a plate glass window (couldn’t because it is bullet proof glass).
I understand I was injured or could have died (as the district manager pointed out), but I took a risk that stood for some thing and not money, not greed, but for what is right..
I know corporate greed is rampant. But if it was a corporate CEO I saved I wouldn’t be fired..
You can check out the interview at
www.abc6onyourside.com
look under top stories and hero saves woman and is fired.
If you think this is wrong and want to stand up and support this injustice here’s a BP corperate number to call 1-888-274-3578 hit 0 to get the operator and notify them your a customer and make your opinion known let them know corporate greed is worth more than a persons life and isn’t right.
Just a note when I was talking to my district manager while at doctors west, I noted that they might want to post a security guard at night and he responded that that would cost to much..Wait aren’t gas companies making billions in profit? Billions not millions and a security guard costs to much to protect customers and employees..
And yes I know I am using my gf’s nick becaue I have yet ot make my own, sorry not meant to confuse or mislead any one.
To the second reply.. You seem to convey that it is aceptable to do wrong. Also you missed the point, it isn’t about the job, it is about the lack of morality in humans especially in the corporate aspect.
I tried to convey such to you and others, but obviously I failed in such or it is useless in trying to put out a post that contains ethics issues in it because so far it seems so far in responses the concept is to just let some one beat you and do as wrong as they wish and lump it let it continue.
That is common yet wrong and speaks much ill of how demoralized many of our society possibly are.
Demos j a few notes..
One this isn’t a simpsons show and reciting some thing you read to make what is wrong morally into a right still doesn’t make it right.
Also you missed the point (or the biggest one) is that it isn’t mainly about my job, it’s about the lousy corporate ethics yet again saying a persons life isn’t worth risking a few dollars out of the CEOs pocket.
And just because simon says this is a law doesn’t make it right, for if I was simon and said all people who used a nick I didn’t like are to get sever torture and then killed that wouldn’t make me right morally just because I have the power or the money to make a law for myself so I can say simon says doesn’t mean it is right.
And one other point you missed is that it’s easy to sit and give quotes and ignor the morality of it because you probably think it will never happen to you(either being attacked in such a situation or loosingg your job due to lousy corporate ethics) which is common.
Best answer:
Answer by demos_jones
“There is only one basic human right, and that is to do as you damned well please. And with it comes the only real responsibility, to take the consequences.” ~ PJ O’Rourke
Life is full of dilemmas and you will face even more of them. Remember that Simpsons episode about dilemmas? “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t”? You have to pick which one is more important to you.
There are a lot of famous people who’ve spend most of their lives in prison for what they believed was right. They also had a choice: Sell out their own convictions or rot in a cell. Some even lost their lives. You lost a minimum wage job as a gas pump attendant.
Nothing in life is 100%. A rule that is right for 90% of the time is wrong for 10% of the time, but the 90% outweighs the occasion that someone gets caught by it. Besides, if that’s the only minimum wage job that you’ll ever be able to find, then you’ve got way more problems than just some stupid rule.
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