Woman Sees Husband Off to Iraq, Gets Fired

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CALEDONIA, Mich. - A woman who took an unpaid leave of absence from work to see her husband off to war with an Indiana National Guard unit has been fired after failing to show up for her part-time receptionist job the day following his departure.

"It was a shock," said Suzette Boler, a 40-year-old mother of three and grandmother of three. "I was hurt. I felt abandoned by people I thought cared for me. I sat down on the floor and cried for probably two hours."

Officials at her former workplace, Benefit Management Administrators Inc., a Caledonia employee-benefits company, confirmed that Boler was dismissed when she didn't report to work the day after she said goodbye to her husband of 22 years.

"We gave her sufficient time to get back to work," Clark Galloway, vice president of operations for Benefit Management, told The Grand Rapids Press for a story Wednesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051026/ap_on_re_us/soldier_s_wife_fired

anybody have the email for this VP?

Better yet, a snail-mail address?

This is not news. It damn well should be, but it will be forgotten. Did you hear Ashlee Simpson's album is #1?

1. Did she call in and tell her employer

2. Who did they vote for. If they voted for Kerry, then I wish her the best. If they voted for bush, then you will have to learn to live with the consequences of your actions

Both

I don't assume it's just a suggestion. When I was active duty, I deployed all the time. My wife never took a week off before I left, and she didn't need the next day off as well.

Yes, definitely more to this story.

to fire somebody (employed on contract) because they don't get back to work in time (if it isn't a pattern). It's worth a warning, nothing else.

Besides the fact that in this case it's particularly cruel, it shouldn't be allowed. What she did cannot be considered as a SERIOUS breach of contract.

unless a 1900th century wild capitalism is still prevailing

unless a 19th century ......well yes it is and it is getting worse every day here in the "greatest nation on earth"

They can fire you without even telling you why.

Is only a slogan or a yellow ribbon, I guess. :shrug:

N. Henry Bledsoe
Benefit Management Administrators, Inc.
9365 Cherry Valley Avenue
Caledonia, MI 49316
US
PH: 616-891-1984
FX: 616-891-9009
henry@benefitsthatfit.com
States: GA, IN, MI, OH, TN

The company gave $500 to the Repugs per opensecrets.

this is the direction ALL companies are going.

To be fair, many over there think this is unjust. But, then there's this. I trust this person is encouraging every member of his family to fight for this noble cause of Iraq, and check out the last line:

To: babyface00
It's perfectly clear but I can see hoards of knee-jerk Freepers flying off the handle when the EMPLOYEE screwed the employer, not the other way around:
Suzette Boler had received permission to take off work the week leading up to her husband's departure.

Let's be clear: She had a week off. Time off up to his departure. She didn't show up the day after her time off ended. She didn't meet the terms of her time off.

She's pissed she didn't get any extra special treatment above what she already got (the week off) and runs to the press screaming "boo-hoo, I lost my job because hubby's gone to Iraq," which is a TOTAL LIE. She's opportunist scum. I hope her egotistical idiocy doesn't cause her husband such unnecessary stress as to get him injured or killed.

As they used to say, "If the Navy wanted you to have a wife, they'd have issued you one with you sea bag."


42 posted on 10/26/2005 4:21:39 PM PDT by newzjunkey (CA: YES on Prop 73-77! Unions outspending Arnold 3:1, HELP: http://www.joinarnold.com)
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was when she said she'd try to be back the 17th, not that she would.

Boler recalled being asked, not ordered, to start back at her job Oct. 17, the day after her husband left. She told her bosses that she would try to return that day but if she could not, she would definitely be back Oct. 18, she said.

If that is what happened and she thought she had that permission perhaps it is scummy to call her scum.

For myself if I had that week and saw my husband off to war and then drove home, I'd want another day to get myself together. (Crying at work can be frowned on.)
She wasn't paid for the time off, thought she had their permission.

We don't know what the "other issues" were...no one here knows enough to call her "opportunist scum" or accuse her of "egotistical idiocy"

And thank you, with a sweeping and gracious bow.

:grr: