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.
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.
Crane Interiors must be proud of themselves (sarcasm) May they reap what they sow.
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.
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.
“Employees are allowed to use cell phones during breaks and lunches.”
A smart boss would have called that phone call her break.
Mom worksregular, know hours/days.
Company has a well-known safety policy.
Son should be aware of moms hours, Mom should follow safety rules.
A flexible boss COULD allow a “open” break time for mom to take if the phone rings... Son could leave a message on his OKness.
As for the other, when I was deployed in SEA, letters and the odd MARS call seemed to work.
Hope she is such a hot-shot worker that she has something else lined up. Cause there a LOT of people that would love to have that “shit job” as another poster opined - and they would follow the safety rules, eh?.
In reality, it’s a fair general policy to have (keep with me) what needs to happen is another policy be added in situations like this, where they can answer their phone and take an unscheduled, break and get out of the production environment. This makes it fair for all employees, and says thank you to those families that sacrifice in serving our country.
Crane Interiors of Nashville? I suspect their receipts are going to go down for the near term. I love it when people vote with their feet and their money.
JoMa
I’m of two minds on this. First, the company has a policy, and that policy must be uniform to all employees, regardless of hardship or sob story. Nobody is more supportive of military families than me, but they’ve got to understand that hardship, stoicism and martyrdom are part and parcel of the military life.
Second, this should be a management decision, where a thoughtful manager might allow some leeway for a person in this woman’s position. But know full well that as soon as they allow this, they are going to be sued by some jackass who feels that their own sob story is just as important.
Sounds to me like this policy was put in place for a good reason. If she wants to be in a position to take a call from her son 24/7, perhaps she should have got a different job. She used her son's service as a moral bludgeon to ignore rules that might well have been their for other people's safety as well as her own...
Woodbury is serious social conservative but with too many whites on the government tittie rural area...pretty country too about where the Cumberland plateau starts up..very hilly
Short Mountain is the highest point in US between Ozarks and Cumberlands/Allegheny range..around 2200 feet ...just a big bump...planes used to hit it frequently way back
lotsa Mansons too...and a zillion Higgins too
Cannon county..I like it...
had a crooked sherrif a few years back mand folks died over it...one should walk carefully there if you push folks too hard
bout 18 miles due east of college and Yankee laden Murfreesboro but a world of difference
Thanks for the contact info. Will send them a little “love” letter. Amazing how this woman can be fired while the union thugs in Wisconsin abuse their positions and are sacrosanct
My son is in Iraq. I agree with this Mom. NOTHING could prevent me from taking a call from him short of a life-endangering emergency underway when the phone rang.
Jobs can be replaced. Children cannot.
Having said that, the company is certainly within its rights. There’s no law against being stupid and callous.
If there were, we’d have no liberals! :-)
I’m surprised at the number of meanspirited, selfish Freepers on this thread.
The company is a manufacturing company, and the policy of no cell phones during work hours is apparently a result of the comapny caring for the safety of their employees, and the well being of the company.
It’s dispiriting to see how many freepers are running roughshod over a private companies freedoms.
Case closed.
I ‘get’ that it could be dangerous in a production environment to have an employee on the cell phone for any reason. BUT the company could adopt a policy where an employee in these circumstances would have an instant fill-in person to take over her responsibilities and get her away from the production line for the duration of the call.