Posted on 11/21/2021 11:09:05 AM PST by Impala64ssa
I’d be curious to see the details of this. There may be more to that story than what you posted. One of the problems you potentially face when you use an e-mail address when answering this kind of solicitation is that the organization collecting the donations will often end up sending you endless solicitations via e-mail … and then even selling your address to other organizations for THEIR fundraising. Once that happens, your e-mail address and domain may as well be public information because there’s no telling who has access to it.
Sounds like the city manager needs to be fired.
If I were a police officer, I would have my own personal email address separate from the police department email address. I would never make any political contribution using a work email address, especially if I were a civil servant.
I sure as Hades wouldn’t want to work for an organization that already fired me for such a chicken-poop reason. I might sue for wrongful termination hoping for a cash settlement, but I’d look for a job with an organization that shares my values and appreciates my efforts.
Thank God this guy is fighting back. Most just will not.
I hope he sues, gets his job back with pay, and promptly quits for a better police job where the community supports their police.
“But if you’ve accumulated debt and created a standard of living on one salary, you can’t simply take a pay cut until you’ve cleared your debts and made the decision to scale down.”
The best advice for anyone is to live below your means and save for a rainy day. If you lose your job you then have time and options. You also have the potential to retire early.
I suspect this is an incremental step toward that end. You typically exhaust all grievance and appeal avenues before suing. I hope he gets his pension, if not his job.
“...used his department-issued email address while making the donation.”
Mistake.
Kelly should open his own Go Fund Me page.
“Can somebody please tell me why he would want his job back in Norfolk?”
Because he needs to put in ten more months to be eligible for his retirement pay. Otherwise, he gets nothing, after 19 years.
He should not have used his work email to donate, however a reprimand was in order, not a firing, when you consider that the chief was allowed to attend BLM rallies in his uniform.
He will most likely win his appeal to get re-instated.
Here’s the problem with forcing an employer to give you your job back. We work in a hierarchical society. Those above us in the hierarchy direct what we do, when we do it and what tools we have. If you get that job back, they can assign you to do things you don’t want to do and they can screw you for all future advancement.
If you want to sue for compensation, fine. But just getting your job back would be crazy.
“The only issue I see is him using his work email.”
If people are paying bills online at work it would probably be okay but... if that’s not the case he probably should have used his personal smartphone.
If people are paying bills online at work it would probably be okay but... if that’s not the case he probably should have used his personal smartphone.
If he gets his job back, especially after an eggy faced frumpas, I can almost guarantee that there will be no use of the companies computer system for conducting personal business ever again, and anybody who works there would be wise not to even try it.
Agreed. Always told my folks to not use their work emails for personal stuff. A company can look at it as stealing resources.
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