A Jessamine County woman is looking for work after being forced to make a tough decision - take two days to spend time with her husband on leave from Iraq, or lose her job.
Shirley Blankenship thought 10 years of service at McClane Cumberland, a distribution company, was enough to get her a couple of days off to be with her husband David before he returned to Iraq.
"Ever since I worked for them they said we're for family," said Blankenship. "But they wasn't for my family."
Staff sergeant David Blankenship has spent eight years of service in the National Guard, the last six months as a member of the 213th transportation unit out of Paducah.
Shirley said she wanted to take a week off at work while her husband was home. She felt since she had worked there since around the day the company opened ten years ago she could get the time off. But she was told she had used all her allotted vacation and sick time and had to work while David was in town. Blankenship also said she was on a warning for excessive absences - time she says was used over the last few years to care for her epileptic son, Austin.
Finally, Shirley said she decided that, no matter what, she would take the last two days of her husband's visit off. "I even asked to work a double shifts," she said. "You know, came in and worked on a Friday because I don't work on Fridays. Nothing seemed to (work)."
Blankenship was fired Tuesday. She said that while she's upset, she knows in her heart she made the right decision.
"I called from the airport, so my husband knew I had lost my job," said Blankenship. "So he was really upset about it. But he said we can deal with this."
LEX 18 called McClane Cumberland Wednesday to ask them about the decision. They refused to comment, saying it was a personnel matter.
Staff sergeant Blankenship is set to return from Iraq early next year.
Let's call & email these hypocrites to make them reverse this decision.
McLane Cumberland
1040 Baker Lane
Nicholasville, KY 40356
(859) 887-8200
(859) 887-8266 Fax
President of company: mary.piekarski@mclaneco.com
General email: comments@mclaneco.com
And why, do you ask, do I call them Christian hypocrites? Check out their "Beliefs and Values", from their website:
McLane Beliefs and Values
McLane Company has been through many changes since our beginning in Cameron, Texas. One aspect that has not changed, is our Beliefs and Values.
Our founder, Robert McLane, felt deeply that business should be based on Honesty, Integrity, and High Christian Principles. These Beliefs and Values are the principles that guide our relationships with:
Our Customers
Our Teammates
Our Shareholders
Over 100 years later, we continue to honor these principles in all our business relationships
Or "Our People", also from the website:
Our People
People are the cornerstone of McLane Company. We maintain a strong foundation through recruiting and development, effective communications between teammates, and human resource policies designed to meet our teammate's needs.
Additionally, as a learning organization, McLane Company provides an environment where teammate involvement in problem solving and continuous improvement is an important part of every day activities. All of these components build a McLane team with good morale, a strong work ethic, and commitment to customers.
High Christian Principles, my lapsed Catholic ass.
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Letting various supervisors cuss out employees over and over again and they say they have a zero tolerance policy . the only thing they got right in the last statement is "zero" WE are the little ones who make those companys who they are. Who is one person agenst such a giant as mclane. People say theres laws agenst a company verbally abusing their employees. yep there is but who is going to risk their job doing so? I have seen many people get fired over being injured."becouse they was on their final" A man who had injured his knee due to neglajence of the company not repairing a pallet stop. That man was made to move stacks of candy with a injured knee!I dont know and i dont care the excuses that they give for the above reasons. If you have a supervisor who had repetedly seen by other co-workers cuss out an employee just for merely making a mistake, THEY SHOULD BE FIRED. that is the companys resposibility this has happened about five to six times with one supervisor. Two to three times in another. Oh and their still employed by them still holding their supervisor title.
The pallet stops are still broken
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