Three men who worked for a temp agency hailed as heroes for finding a bomb and reporting it immediately to the police who sent a bomb squad out and dismantled the bomb set along a parade route, were fired for handling the situation poorly. Read on:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110311/ap_on_re_us/us_mlk_parade_explosive_fired
Hell they called the cops as soon as they realized what they had, not like they walked around with it showing everyone saying "dude, c'mere look at this!"
If it were me I'd be suing the company hard-core. Purty stoopid reason for firing them. They did the right thing considering the job that they were given to do in the first place. They could've just left it there thinking it belonged to someone and they'll be back for it, or taken it back to the office and turned it in to their lost and found.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110311/ap_on_re_us/us_mlk_parade_explosive_fired
Me either... I mean two minutes is NOT a long time considering.The men were employed by Labor Ready and working under contract for the Spokane Public Facilities District when they found a backpack containing the bomb about an hour before the scheduled start of the Jan. 17 parade.
They alerted police, who were able to defuse the bomb.
"For the first two days, basically all we did was get chewed out," worker Mark Steiner told KHQ of Spokane. "We did this wrong. We did that wrong. I don't know what you consider calling 911 wrong after two minutes after we found it."
Sounds like something an average Joe would do. I mean generally those who work for temp agencies aren't usually anti-terrorist trained individuals who'd be able to spot a suspicious package."We'd go out, and we'd clean up parking lots," he said. "Who knows what happens when you see a backpack sitting there? The first reaction is to pick it up and that's what we did, and we opened it, saw wires sticking out of it and called police."
Hell they called the cops as soon as they realized what they had, not like they walked around with it showing everyone saying "dude, c'mere look at this!"
Gee Mary how about giving those guys a job... permanent ones... even if it's a low level city maintainence job like doing what they were doing for the Temp Agency?Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and Spokane Mayor Mary Verner have praised the three workers in speeches for being vigilant.
If it were me I'd be suing the company hard-core. Purty stoopid reason for firing them. They did the right thing considering the job that they were given to do in the first place. They could've just left it there thinking it belonged to someone and they'll be back for it, or taken it back to the office and turned it in to their lost and found.