He paid the toll, then paid the price.
A Florida tollbooth worker who had been on the job for nearly three decades was fired for paying a driver’s $5 toll, according to WBBH.
Vladislav Samsonov said that when he realized he charged a tractor-trailer driver too little earlier this month, he paid the difference out of his own pocket.
“In my eyes there was no crime committed, I just helped someone out,” the Boca Grande toll collector told WBBH.
That view was not shared by his bosses. Samsonov, a 77-year-old military veteran, said he was initially handed a reduced schedule as punishment, but he declined to take fewer days.
“If I can’t be trusted for five days, how can I be trusted for two days?” said Samsonov, who added that he had been asked not to pay customers’ tolls before, but had never formally been written up.
The Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority told WBBH they do not discuss personnel matters.
Samsonov said he will now look for volunteer work, but will miss the people he used to meet at the booth.
“After 29 years, you can’t help it,” he said. “I gave children suckers 20 years ago. Now I’m giving those children suckers for their children.”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/20/tollbooth-worker-fired-for-paying-driver-fee/
Corporate bullshit, just like the over abundance of stupid, ridiculous, asinine “laws” we have today.
NO ACT OF KINDNESS WILL GO UNPUNISHED
RETIREMENT….29 YEARS WITH THE “COMPANY” AND THE NEW PIGS IN MANAGEMENT FIRED HIM TO KILL HIS RETIREMENT PACKAGE. USED TO SEE THEM TRY THIS CRAP AT THE GOOD OLD U of Shiester M YEAR AFTER YEAR. A GOOD LONG TIME EMPLOYEE THAT SHOWS UP FOR WORK EVERY DAY AND NEVER GETS SICK AND IS TOLD “YOU WILL” PAY INTO THE RETIREMENT PROGRAM IS TARGETED AS SOON AS THEY GET WITHIN A YEAR OF THEIR POSSIBLY LEAVING. BUY MORE AMMO. LIBERTY1775
I think you got it right 29 years in the Florida system…
It wasn’t about the change he put into the toll, it’s all about him being a solid employee, and I’m sure he was about to cash out. This has all the markings of ” you just got F*C*ED by the State”. and they wonder why people go postal.
On a side thought, this is just 1 individual loosing what he has worked hard for his life, a retirement..but he got fired.
Imagine every single person (the 99%) will lose their savings & retirement pension, z………………………………….this gives new meaning to “going postal” think about it.. what happens if you lost everything..
yeah like they give a shit who pays as long as they get their money,, this has nothing to do with his act of kindness and all to do with not honoring a contract ,, the mans employment and future pension that im sure his union has already pilfered