Red Wings longtime zamboni driver fired for peeing into a drain, suing saying he has a urinary disorder

[MMC]

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[Sol]

A toilet is a drain if you think about it. So he’s in the right. Peeing rights matter.

 

[oXo Cube]

what

 

[VanIsle]

Best headline ever. . Even Florida man is amazed.. .

 

[Dr Pepper]

Imagine being the employee who ran to corporate and told on him.

 

[WingsMJN2965]

I don’t care if he has a disorder or not.

Firing a 50 year employee because he pissed into a drain is absurd.

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

 

[ArGarBarGar]

Okay, what?

 

[McRpro]

It's all pipes, what's the difference!

 

[WingsMJN2965]

Maybe he mistook the drain for one of the old piss trough’s in Joe Louis…

 

[Tuggy]

First thing that came to mind

 

[Jacob]

what, no sink nearby?

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Any relation to Frank?

 

[Mantis]

Came to post this

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

How embarrassing

 

[WingsMJN2965]

Imagine being the employee who ran to corporate and told on him.

The fragility of some people.

 

[Mr Kot]

Fired for doing what man has done since showers existed.

 

[tarheelhockey]

That he was initially suspended for a week and then terminated suggests we aren't privy to all the facts here.

 

[MMC]

I don’t care if he has a disorder or not.

Firing a 50 year employee because he pissed into a drain is absurd.

Yeah this is insanely harsh to me. He'd been there for decades and they let him go because he has a disorder and hid between two zambonis in what's said to be an all-male area?

 

[kerrabria]

Imagine being the employee who ran to corporate and told on him.

After reading the article, I'm gonna go out on a limb and hypothesize that the guy who saw him didn't have any ill-intent when he told others about it, and when it got back to the bosses, they used this an excuse to get rid of an expensive, elderly employee who could no longer do his job efficiently.

 

[ArGarBarGar]

That he was initially suspended for a week and then terminated suggests we aren't privy to all the facts here.

There are some anecdotal testimonies from posters regarding this, but without substantiation, I can't attest to their veracity.

 

[Bruinswillwin77]

They should've fired the employee that ratted him out as well.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Should have used a piss jug I guess.

 

[Neil Racki]

Quick read of the Michigan Elliot Larsen Civil Rights Act sect 37.2202(1)(d) .... Red Wings would have had to treat him differently from another "individual who is not so affected ..."

Im going to assume every employee is not permitted to pee in drains, so hes not being treated differently in that regard. He could argue accommodation blah blah blah ... dude wants paid. Whatever.

 

[Cursed Lemon]

Yes this is certainly what Al Sobotka's lawsuit says he was fired for, lol