{"id":256,"date":"2012-07-06T19:17:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T00:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-musings.org\/?p=256"},"modified":"2023-07-25T21:10:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T02:10:52","slug":"heros-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/06\/heros-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero&#8217;s Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">According to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/articles\/359907\/20120705\/thomas-lopez-lifeguard-hallandale-beach-fired-drowning.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a>, a lifeguard was fired for saving someone&#8217;s life.\u00a0 Supposedly, by abandoning his post to run to the rescue of a drowning swimmer, Thomas Lopez endangered the lives of the people Lopez was supposed to be watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The logic here is interesting.&nbsp; According to Management (never known for its compassion or intelligence), Lopez was supposed to ignore the fact of a person in <i>actual<\/i> danger of drowning and remain at his post, because someone in his area <i>might<\/i> get into trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t want to sound like a know-it-all or anything, but this is fucking stupid.&nbsp; I mean, sure you want someone to man his post and not abandon it, because indeed someone might get into trouble there and need assistance.&nbsp; OTOH, the guy was hired to save peoples&#8217; lives, should it become necessary.&nbsp; Apparently the company (Jeff Ellis Management) wasn&#8217;t pleased that Lopez saved someone in a location not covered by the company.&nbsp; If they&#8217;re not getting paid to save people, then fuck them, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/articles\/359907\/20120705\/thomas-lopez-lifeguard-hallandale-beach-fired-drowning.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">subsequent article<\/a> informs us that Lopez has been offered his job back.\u00a0 He has wisely declined to return.\u00a0 At least one person at that company &#8211; someone with the power to dismiss employees &#8211; isn&#8217;t particularly mindful of public opinion or compassion.\u00a0 This doesn&#8217;t sound like a good company to work for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article, a lifeguard was fired for saving someone&#8217;s life.\u00a0 Supposedly, by abandoning his post to run to the rescue of a drowning swimmer, Thomas Lopez endangered the lives of the people Lopez was supposed to be watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}