Jackie Brucia is a businesswoman who needed a kidney transplant. One of her employees, Debbie Stevens, offered to donate a kidney. In a complicated transaction, Stevens did donate a kidney and Brucia did receive a kidney, although Brucia didn’t actually get Stevens’ kidney - apparently there was a organ swap.
But here’s the RO. Brucia began calling Stevens at home while she was convalescing from the surgery and telling her she should get back to work and not expect any “special treatment”. This despite the fact that Brucia herself was still convalescing at her own home. Brucia ended up demoting Stevens and eventually fired her.
I have a friend who donated a kidney to a sister. The donee will still speak to her, but their mother and the donor’s daughter refuse to speak to her. It’s just really bizarre.
What possessed this woman to offer to donate a kidney to her boss? She must have some kind or martyr complex.
I wonder when the boss noticed that she was such a potential doormat.
“…kind and generous”? W…T…F…She has kids to take care of, and yet chose to risk her health for such a dipshit reason!
Was it just to kiss up?
I cannot fathom the stupidity of that woman. I am so disgusted with her foolishness, that I am having trouble feeling pity for her.
And that boss…what a bitch!
There HAS to be more to this. The two links in the OP are from AOL jobs and The New York Post. I don’t trust either of those to get the facts straight. I’m not calling bullshit, exactly, but I’ve never trusted either source.
Yeah, at this point I’m willing to take on faith that a) there was an exchange of kidneys and b) the donor no longer works there. The rest of it needs some filling in by more reliable sources.
The first thing that came to mind when I read this story was that it’s a crying shame that Boston Legal and The Practice are no longer airing, because this plot would fit right in. Also, Law and Order could probably have done something with it.
The Fox one, at least, has a (predictable) response from the company’s attorney:
[QUOTE=Robert Milman]
Atlantic Auto treated her appropriately and acted honorably and fairly at every turn. We expect to have this resolved favorably in the legal system.
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FTA - the employee donated to a different person than her boss, a man in Missouri. This gave her boss a chance to move up a slot to a kidney that was a perfect match for her as the employee’s was not. It was like kidney Tetris.
There are not enough organs to give to everyone who needs one. So there are protocols on who has priority to get the available organs. And apparently one of these protocols is if you can convince somebody else to donate an organ that will raise your priority for receiving an organ, even though you’re not receiving the organ that’s being donated.
So while Brucia didn’t receive Stevens’ kidney, she did receive a kidney as a result of Stevens donating a kidney.
Oh, I understand that. And I can see the logic behind it. But it also seems to skirt close to that whole pay for organs problem. I wonder if the boss is one of those sociopathic “technicality” assholes whose thinking is that the employee didn’t actually give her HER kidney so any consideration shouldn’t even be on the table.
Hell, if Hitler saved my life by a kidney donation the least I could do is send a birthday card once a year.