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Home Depot has a policy like this too. Not sure who cleans the bathrooms, but workers are expected to come to work while they heal from Workers Comp injuries. At our local one there are two guys on light duty while they heal.
If this happened to me, I would rather do that than sit around at home.
This guy could have been simply laid off and sent home. Or he could have quit. And since when is bathroom attending become dishonorable work? I admit it's hardly a glamour detail, but it's an honorable job.
The title of the discussion is not the same as the title/headline of the linked article and, IMO, it falsely states what article reports. The article is about one individual. One. When describe pejoratively anyone who you think disagrees with the rest of what you say is rendered meaningless ... and ignorant.
I was injured on the job when I worked for one of the big box stores a few years ago. My "punishment" was light duty. I was instructed to sit in a space that was 4 feet by 10 feet and answer phones. Every so often I was given permission to walk a customer to an aisle or what not but light duty means light duty. If it's watching bathrooms then that may be the only light duty position available at that time. Some other duties I had were watering plants, watching people unload boxes. All of it sucked, but it still was better than no hours at all...
I'm really not seeing the problem here. They gave the guy hours and he was on light duty.
Tried not to laugh at the son tried to squeeze out tears when he talked about how horrific this was for his father. Seriously, we have 1st world problems. The guy worked for WALMART, I'm pretty sure he wasn't sitting in an air conditioned office before this.
As much as I despise Wal-mart, they could have just laid him off or fired him for some made-up charge, which is the normal course of action when a tool breaks - I mean, an employee is recovering from illness or injury.
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