Brickbat: Free Ride

The Scottish Ambulance Service fired Christopher Gallacher, a duty manager at West Centre in Glasgow, after finding he had an on-duty emergency dispatcher pick him and his family up at the airport after a vacation. According to a disciplinary tribunal, this happened on an evening when there were a "high number of calls" and patients were waiting for "lengthy periods of time." The dispatcher was away from his post for 45 minutes. Gallacher said he had assumed the man would use his break to pick him up.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Gallacher said he had assumed the man would use his break to pick him up.

Someone call 911! There's a man thrown under a bus!

[Longtobefree]

If workers get 45 minute breaks, I think I'll move to Scotland.

(how hard can it be to become a true Scotsman?)

[mad.casual]

Theh meh tek are leives, boot theh’ll never tek are freedom an ahmbulance from the ‘oospital to the airport!

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Gotta to be shrinkflations fault

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Next time take the train.

[gah87]

Ach! Someone coulda been kilt!