City Employee Gets Abandoned In Harms Way

Last Fall a female employee of City of Toledo was abandoned at a construction site by three of her co-workers. Her foot became stuck in the mud and her co-workers jeered at her, took a picture of her with a cell phone camera and left her to free herself while bulldozers and other heavy equipment was whizzing around her. The abandoned employee injured herself freeing herself and had to undergo physical therapy. Two of the three co-workers were given verbal reprimands and the third, a supervisor, was given a one week suspension, supposedly without pay for abandoning the employee at the construction site. There also may have been a history of ill intent by the supervisor toward the abandoned employee. Also, City of Toledo Management entertained the idea to discipline the employee who became stuck in the mud for not having a cell phone on her person when the incident occurred even though the three co-workers jeering at her had working cell phones with them. Should this behavior by the co-workers and management be more severely punished or is this acceptable behavior.