I’m okay with the idea that if you take the employer’s money, then the employer is entitled to expect an honest day’s work. However, I also favor progressive discipline. This seems a little extreme for a first offense.
Remember the “hot foot?” If you thought that was funny, this story ought to put you on the floor laughing.
What seems to be a straight forward story about a work place incident actually has several layers. One employee, at a crematorium, mistook another employee sleeping on a crematorium gurney as a client. Into the oven he went. Yeah, it coulda happened to anybody.
Here are some things I wonder about. How jaded do you have to be to take a nap on funeral home gurney? The next thing is how does one confuse a sleeping 48 year old with a 52 year old car accident victim? I understand that 16 hour shifts can be trying and not all victims of car wrecks end up being mangled corpses. Still, Bert and Ernie wouldn’t have made that mistake.
What about the guy that did the deed? Some people don’t look their best when they are asleep. How does one confuse a coworker with a corpse? I’m guessing there is some paperwork that goes along with the dearly departed.
The operation was a success… however the patient didn’t survive.
I can see the pusher in the next job interview, ” Yeah, I was let go because I made a bureaucratic error.”
