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woman gives kidney to boss, gets fired
i suspect there is a vastly different story from the boss.
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/wpix-woman-fired-after-donating-kidney,0,2673694.story
Stevens was an employee at the Atlantic Automotive Group from over a year before she decided to move to Florida. She left on good terms and during a trip back to NY, she visited her former employer to say hello.
While she was there, her boss, Jacqueline Brucia explained how she was having health problems and needed a new kidney. Debbie told Brucia if she ever needed a kidney, she would be willing to donate.
After deciding to move back to New York, Debbie asked for her old job
back. Brucia immediately hired her back, and then reminded her that she
offered a kidney at one time.
"My boss needed a kidney," said Stevens.
Stevens went under the knife in August of 2011 to have her left kidney
removed. The recovery was nothing like she expected and she went
through a painful recovery.
On September 6th, Stevens went back to work, even though she was still
in pain. That is when she realized what really went down.
"It appeared I was used. She used her power and she manipulated me," said Stevens.
The boss who once asked for the gift of life -- turned into an ungrateful monster, finding fault in everything Stevens did.
"She accused me of not doing my job, she'd yell at me every day. She made me feel guilty about the pain I was in."
Stevens couldn't take it anymore and went to human resources. They
informed her they had heard from other employees that Brucia was
harassing Stevens. They in turn moved Stevens to another dealership
fifty miles away, and than abruptly fired her.
" I felt like my heart was ripped out," said Stevens.
Stevens is now filing a complaint and lawsuit to the Division of Human Rights against Atlantic Automotive and Brucia.
PIX11 went to the dealership today and they had no comment. Brucia was not in her office, nor was she at her West Islip home.
Stevens says if she had to do it all over again, she would not.
Re: woman gives kidney to boss, gets fired
I bought a car from them. The headlight fell out on the way home.
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I heard about this on the radio this morning. I definitely want to hear the other side.
On my internal med rotation last month, the nephrologist was saying that the person who donates usually has a much harder and longer recovery than the person who gets the kidney. I had never thought about that before. I wonder how soon she went back to work.
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Not that I've heard, however, I do remember a dude asking for his kidney back in the divorce. lolol
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I was wondering that, also. Or if essentially the woman figured that donating kidney = I don't have to go to work any more.
It's actually part of an elaborate chain, where donors are matched with others who need kidneys on the list. Say you have five people that need a kidney, and five of their loved ones/friends willing to give one. The loved one doesn't match their person who needs it, but they match someone else in the chain. So it doesn't move the boss up the list at all - it means the boss gets a kidney.
These are actually growing in popularity now but it means that if the donor didn't participate, boss wouldn't get a kidney.
So even though she didn't give the kidney directly to her boss, she did participate in a chain that enabled her boss to get a kidney.
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Why in the everloving hell would you donate a kidney to your boss without some sort of strong relationship? This seems really fishy.
But since there were witnesses to the harrassment I'm totally Team Donor.
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