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Zalatix

(8,994 posts)
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 12:57 PM Apr 2012

Ain't America great? N.Y. mom donates kidney to help her boss, gets fired

This woman's boss is headed for a Wall Street banker job.

http://gma.yahoo.com/n-y-mom-fired-donating-kidney-help-her-162333834--abc-news-health.html

A New York Long Island woman said she was fired after she donated a kidney to help save the life of her boss.

Debbie Stevens, a 47-year-old divorced mother of two, filed a formal complaint with the New York State Human Rights Commission last Friday, claiming her boss used her for her organ then fired her "after the woman got what she wanted." Stevens' boss, 61-year-old Jackie Brucia, is one of the West Islip controllers for Atlantic Automotive Group, a billion-dollar dealership operator. Brucia hired Stevens in January 2009 as an assistant.

"She just started treating me horribly, viciously, inhumanly after the surgery," Stevens told ABCNews.com. "It was almost like she hired me just to get my kidney." Although Stevens turned out to be less than a perfect kidney match for Brucia, Stevens donated her organ to an out-of-state stranger so that Brucia could move up on the organ donor list.

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patrice

(47,992 posts)
4. This is what happens to those who give to an employer, above and beyond the call of duty.
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 01:10 PM
Apr 2012

At-will employment is legalized Discrimination.

 

4th law of robotics

(6,801 posts)
6. Probably took too many sick days recovering from the surgery
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 01:40 PM
Apr 2012

seriously that's pretty messed up.

/assuming there isn't more to this story.

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
7. And this is the picture I would expect to see of the woman
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 01:52 PM
Apr 2012

It's amazing how many people you can tell are squirmy nasty fuckers just from looking at them...






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