Archived South Florida toll collector fired for paying driver's toll out of his own pocket (jacksonville.com)
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Archived South Florida toll collector fired for paying driver's toll out of his own pocket (jacksonville.com)
submitted ago by RenagadeGam3r
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[–] RenagadeGam3r [S] 0 points 12 points 12 points (+12|-0) ago
Guess no good deed goes unpunished.
[–] GoatBeard 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
I don't understand why he was fired. This did not cause any inconvenience or cost to the employer.
[–] RenagadeGam3r [S] 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
Can't make money off those fine bruh.
[–] Superking 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Pretty much the same reason in many places it's illegal to put money in someone else's parking meter. They want to collect those fines.
[–] RamenJunkie ago
When you get into the area of any large company, government, corporate, whatever, you get a lot of bull shit that doesn't make sense from a common sense angle. These companies have fleets of lawyers who see everything as a case of black and white "fairness". Their logic is likely something along the lines that while working, the booth operator is representing the toll booth collecting company. If that booth collector pays one person's toll, then the next person will potentially wonder "Why didn't the company pay my toll, how come that guy gets special treatment, why does that guy get a free toll, was it a contest, i was not made aware of the contest, why was he selected, I'm going to sue".
The next guy being "every other potential toll payer".
[–] PaperEngines 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
article says his hours were scaled back, not fired.
[–] RenagadeGam3r [S] 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago
He declinds the hours and then the terminated him
Exact quote from the article
[–] PaperEngines 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
oh, I just skimmed it, didn't see that, thanks for pointing it out. Bummer, I lived in south florida for a while It was pretty much a shithole.
[–] Jeffersond517 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yes and I got a different take from the article. I am leaning towards the guy was not competent. He was paying tolls that he undercharged to correct mistakes he was making. This happened more than once or so it was implied. I am not sure the reporter didn't overemphasize the termination and down play cause