You can be
fired forced into retiring if you take reward money. You know, money you might get as a reward if you help catch, oh, say... a guy who's robbed 19 banks.
The Bank of America teller who helped police catch the notorious "Hat Bandit" responsible for 19 area robberies in 10 months was handed $10,000 in reward money from law enforcement this afternoon - but said he had to give up his job to collect it.
Steven Gomez, a 21-year-old junior at Rutgers University, said his employer told him he had to forfeit the job if he took the money publicly. Gomez said he chose to leave the bank and portrayed his departure as a forced resignation rather than being fired. [full story]
Really, what kind of policy is that? You can't accept monetary rewards for helping the police? Yeah, way to encourage "community" there, BofA.
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He should have let them fire him, then he could have nailed their asses for wrongful termination. He might still have a case. The only problem I could see with that is if he only worked 25 hours a week, would he qualify? I think he would, and a good attorney would eat this shit up for the publicity alone.
Posted by
Manic Witch on 10/16 at 03:39 PM
The more and more I read about BofA, the more glad I am the we turned down their loan for our new house...
Posted by
chip on 10/16 at 08:53 PM
BofA=Bend over fuckers, again.
Posted by
Manic Witch on 10/17 at 04:29 AM
Wow. I can't even guess as to the reasoning behind that policy. BofA sounds like a stupid place to work.
Posted by
Deltus on 10/17 at 07:02 AM
After reading the article it sorta sounds like they fired him more for violating the policy on how to handle these situations. And while I'm not saying that I'm in any type of agreement with it, I can't help but speculate that since he was told that he'd be canned if he publicly accepted the reward that it has more to do with the fact that now that he accepted it in public and other employees would see it, others would violate the policy that they have in place. But if he'd just accepted the reward all quiet like, maybe they'd have looked the other way? Maybe. That's sorta what my brain decided after reading the article.
Posted by
Itchy on 10/18 at 10:50 AM
