Military Mom Pays High Price For Speaking With Son (TENNESSEE)(VIDEO)

News 5 Nashville ^ | 2/17/11 | Amanda Hara

[GailA]

Alright this is hocked off my FB page so all the credit for the phone number and message goes to Kate

Yeah...the company does have it’s rules, but those rules SHOULD be overlooked when it comes to our serving men and women. Common decency, IMHO. Oh...and (615) 563-4800.

[pepsionice]

During WW II...except for an occasional letter...no one had contact with their loved ones for two or three years. I suspect that we learned to live with it. The current society can’t.

[Husker24]

I say good riddance to a shit job.

[MamaDearest]

The next day, Teresa was suspended from work without pay for three days. This was a first offense, and managers told her next time, she'd be fired.

Crane Interiors must be proud of themselves (sarcasm) May they reap what they sow.

[muawiyah]

During Gulf I we had a soldier's wife in our office. She never knew when he'd call ~ and he could call her at home, or at work, or wherever ~ cellphones were rare in those days.

I can't imagine carrying out a management dictat like that one.

I suppose they hire only Heartless Batardes as bosses ~ or maybe they give employment to hopelessly sociopathic ex-cons.

Gotta' be something strange going on there.

[Husker24]

Once a person climbs so far up the ladder in management, all common sense ceases to exist an one develops shit for brains.

[muawiyah]

My grandmother was at a movie and watched a newsreel that showed my uncle being hauled away on a stretcher. (He survived). She finally got official word some time later.

But it doesn't matter how long you have to wait ~ that differs with the conflict, and the social consequences can be far different.

Today's mail delivery service arose out of the need to eliminate blocks long lines at post offices where people would come every day to see if there were letters from a loved one far away in combat.

[nolongerademocrat]

Are these the people who do boat interiors?

[GRRRRR]

The Company has apologized and she gets her three days pay...

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/14065045/marines-mother-receives-apology-for-phone-call-suspension

[RoseyT]

And you don’t think they would have had more contact if it had been an option? I seriously doubt that would have been the case.

[tbpiper]

This isn’t the ‘40s and having had a son shot at on a daily basis over there during two tours, any communication at any time is welcome.

[driftdiver]

Either that or they are trying to enforce a policy to keep people safe and avoid being sued.

I don’t blame her for taking the call. If she got hurt or someone got hurt around her during the call they would sue the company. It doesn’t sound like an office environment.

[Martel1971]

She is lucky to just get a warning. Tennessee is a right to work state so she could have been fired.

She knew the rules nobody put a gun to her head to work there.

[REDWOOD99]

“Employees are allowed to use cell phones during breaks and lunches.”

A smart boss would have called that phone call her break.

[muawiyah]

That sounds good.

[driftdiver]

They didn’t have lots of stuff 60 years ago. Should we give it all up?

[RoseyT]

The Company has apologized and she gets her three days pay...

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/14065045/marines-mother-receives-apology-for-phone-call-suspension

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Thanks for posting that.

[BulletBobCo]

During WW II...except for an occasional letter...no one had contact with their loved ones for two or three years. I suspect that we learned to live with it. The current society can’t.

Today we have electricity, indoor plumbing, and toilets. I suspect that you could learn to live without those too.

[Kaslin]

Fox news had reported this, I did not know this happened in Tennessee. Fox and Friends also reported this morning that she had gotten over 100,000 support letters from all over the country