McDonald's employee, Nigel Haskett, shot while defending a customer is denied workers comp

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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McDonald's employee, Nigel Haskett, shot while defending a customer is denied workers compensation benefits.

Nigel spent a month in the hospital and his bills exceed $300,000. The Judge in the criminal case called him a hero...but McDonald's just discards him.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. On the letter, oh never mind, this is an example of why we are screwed as a

nation

[Greenheron]

7. Mcdonalds

Anybody here want to donate some money to this kids legal fund or Medical bills? I will if someone can do the research and get the contact info. I can't find enough work right now and my house is in foreclosure, but I can come up with 20 bucks.Eff Mcdonalds!

[Jackpine Radical]

2. That just makes me so proud of the American capitalist system.

It takes a tough-minded, no-nonsense kind of businessman with a clear vision of his duties to the stockholders to see through all the emotion and hoopla and do the right thing for the corporate bottom line here. If we had ten thousand more like him, there would be no whining about economic meltdown in this country; the bleeding hearts and tree-huggers would already have been rounded up and made into Big Macs, and their property confiscated by its rightful owner, namely, the ruling classes.

[bertman]

3. " . . . the bleeding hearts and tree-huggers would already have been rounded up and

made into Whoppers . . . " Now that's seriously funny.

EXCEPT Whoppers are from BurgerKing. You need to bone up on your fast food, Jackpine Radical.




:rofl:

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Aw, crap.

I don
t eat that stuff. I don't go into those places. How the hell was I supposed to know?

Does Big Macs work?

[bertman]

16. Yes it does.

[GOPBasher]

4. Good point!

Friedman would be proud, huh?

[bertman]

5. Nigel just did the hero thing so he could get out of work for a few days with pay.

Boy did they show him!

I almost never eat at these fast food places, but I have lots of friends and family who do, so I intend to share this little tidbit of capitalist piggery with them and urge them to boycott Mickey D's AND send letters to McD's telling them what a bunch of fuckwads they are.

I hope this makes the national scene in a big way.

[Politicalboi]

8. Well his lawyer looks like

He eats at McDonald's a lot. So I guess McDonald's would have rather had the guy shoot his girlfriend in the store and maybe some innocent bystanders too. It happened on McDonald's property. I think Nigel should sue the fuck out of McDonald's. This asshole was armed and could have taken more people out. Nigel is a hero. They owe him a lot more than he is asking for. I wonder how much the McDonald's in San Diego in the early 80's with that shoot out cost McDonald's.

[sasquatch]

9. Never ever live in the South

Here in Ohio, workers comp is no fault.

[Seldona]

10. I would be interested in the owner's response.

Screw McDonald's.

[sailor65]

11. Don't be too quick to blame McDonald's

most workers' comp cases are decided by underwriters, not the payer of the comp premiums. McDonald's itself would not likely have had influence one way or the other.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

14. It's a P.R. thing, and a very unusual situation...

...everything you say is 100% valid, and I get it. But...

1). Like any other franchise, there's the "corporate" McDonald's and the one in which this happened.

2). Rules are made to be broken.

3). This guy is a hero, and he got boned. If the corporate McDonald's or the Little Rock McDonald's can't see that, color me shocked.

My personal belief is that the owner of the Little Rock franchise in which this happened should have gone to bat for his employee. He didn't. Now the media is giving this Little Rock McDonald's a rigid sigmoidoscopy, and it is very well deserved.

[sailor65]

I think it's entirely possible

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that the owner DID go to bat. We probably would not have heard about it at this point. At least I hope that turns out to be the case.

[sailor65]

15. I think it's entirely possible

that the owner DID go to bat. We probably would not have heard about it at this point. At least I hope that turns out to be the case.

[onetwo]

12. After watching the video, the decision is not exactly unfair.

The response by the McDonald's employee was way overboard -- he runs into the frame and escalates the matter by practically assaulting the would-be shooter. He pushes and shoves the man numerous feet until they are both outside of the store where he is promptly shot multiple times.

While a $300,000+ payout would be a nice gesture, I don't think McDonald's should be compelled to cover that kind of behavior. That was stupid conduct on behalf of the good Samaritan. It is possible to be both a hero and an idiot.

[creeksneakers2]

13. In Pennsylvania the injury only needs to be work related

Better standard. Take any accidental injury and there is probably something the victim could have done differently. The fact is though, we all make mistakes and making mistakes is part of working.