Monday 8 October 2012

Stupid Stunt

A “stupid stunt” that took place nearly 50 years ago has cost one Iowa man his job at Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational diversified financial services company with operations around the world. The bank fired Richard Eggers from his job of seven years as a customer service, because they found out that in 1963 Eggers got caught putting a fake dime in a washing machine at a laundromat. Since 2010, the federal authorities press the financial institutions in order to dismiss all the corrupt employees or with a criminal past. But do you thing this is fair? Is this particular case justified by law? According to me it isn't. Are laws and rules today still sensible or are we living in a nanny state that's lost its sense of perspective? What do you think? Augusta Thoenig
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  1. Ana LLinàs8 October 2012 at 21:57

    I agree with you Augusta, from my point of view it isn´t fair that Eggers is fired from a job which has been years because of a thing he did in the past which he is not proud of it, and, that I think it is not a major crime, in fact, it can´t be even considered fraud!
    Answering to your question, some of the laws we have, have a really sensible part, but others, as this one, I consider they’re a bit extreme. I think people should be given second opportunities, because if not, how are they supposed to become better people who admit their error and try to fix it if society rejects them?
    So, my opinion is that the laws should be revised and applied in a subjective way, individually, depending on the different things that people might have done, being serious or not, like in this case…

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  2. Unknown17 November 2012 at 20:23

    I also agree with Augusta and Ana. I think this it's really unfair. I'm trying to empathize with Wells Fargo, and what they may think is that what counts is the intention. So, okay, it's not a major crime, and from my point of view, it's not even a fraud, but what really counts is that he wanted to pay the washing machine with a false dime... But, come on, everybody has done something similar at any time! Don't deny it.

    Anyways, even if his real intention was to pay the washing machine with a false dime, that's not a consistent reason to fire someone, and even less when when this person has been now for a long time working at this place.

    I also agree with Ana when she says that each case and law should be revised individually, for it to be one hundred per cent fair; but I don't think the employees may have time for all this, so I also think that they should put some limits for what is a fraud and what it's not a fraud. Because there's a great difference between trying to pay a washing machine with a false dime and trying to pay a brand new house with false money, for example.

    So, as a conclusion, I think that even though I tried to empathize with Wells Frago, I still believe that Egger has all the rightly, and I think that they should do something to give back to Egger his property, his job.

    Carlota Besalduch.

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