A Woman Told Her Boss About A Devastating Cancer Diagnosis. He Responded By Firing Her.

[Lakhota]

A Pennsylvania community is rallying around a woman who was fired from her job at an oral surgeon's office following her diagnosis with cancer.

Carol Jumper, who lives in Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania, was diagnosed with cancer impacting her pancreas, liver and ovaries in August. According to her fiancee, Dennis Smerigan, Jumper received a letter from her boss, Dr. George Visnich, in which the oral surgeon said he was laying her off without compensation. Raging Chicken Press published the letter on Sunday.

"The symptoms of the disease, the pain medications you will need and the side effects of the chemotherapy will be significant and distracting,” reads the handwritten note, which bears Visnich's letterhead. "You will not be able to function in my office at the level required while battling for your life. Because of this, I am laying you off without pay as of August 11, 2014."

The letter continues, "Our thoughts and prayers are with you as you fight this horrible disease. Thanks for your time at Visnich Oral Surgery. I hope your battle is swift, smooth, and successful!"

Smerigan told the Beaver Countian that his fiancee worked for Visnich for more than 12 years.

"He didn’t even call her, he hasn’t even called her once since she got sick," Smerigan said.

More: A Woman Told Her Boss About A Devastating Cancer Diagnosis. He Responded By Firing Her.

Based on the rest of the article, does anyone think the doctor is doing her a favor?

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

I thought Obama was supposed to take care of her.

 

[Defiant1]

A Pennsylvania community is rallying around a woman who was fired from her job at an oral surgeon's office following her diagnosis with cancer.

Carol Jumper, who lives in Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania, was diagnosed with cancer impacting her pancreas, liver and ovaries in August. According to her fiancee, Dennis Smerigan, Jumper received a letter from her boss, Dr. George Visnich, in which the oral surgeon said he was laying her off without compensation. Raging Chicken Press published the letter on Sunday.

"The symptoms of the disease, the pain medications you will need and the side effects of the chemotherapy will be significant and distracting,” reads the handwritten note, which bears Visnich's letterhead. "You will not be able to function in my office at the level required while battling for your life. Because of this, I am laying you off without pay as of August 11, 2014."

The letter continues, "Our thoughts and prayers are with you as you fight this horrible disease. Thanks for your time at Visnich Oral Surgery. I hope your battle is swift, smooth, and successful!"

Smerigan told the Beaver Countian that his fiancee worked for Visnich for more than 12 years.

"He didn’t even call her, he hasn’t even called her once since she got sick," Smerigan said.

More: A Woman Told Her Boss About A Devastating Cancer Diagnosis. He Responded By Firing Her.

Based on the rest of the article, does anyone think the doctor is doing her a favor?

Is the doctor expected to let his business go down the tubes because an employee got sick?

 

[tinydancer]

Why is this in Politics?

 

[deltex1]

I think Tom asked the central question.

 

[Lakhota]

Obamacare does relate to politics - and I wonder how this doctor can legally fire her due to health reasons. After all, she has worked for him for 12 years. If nothing else, he surely screwed his reputation in the community. He should have handled this humanely and quietly with the employee.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Pretty shitty thing to do to someone in their time of pain.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Why is this in Politics?

The OP is an idiot.

 

[Lakhota]

From the OP link:

Visnich's office did not respond to multiple requests for comment by The Huffington Post. However, Larry Kelly, an attorney for Visnich, told the Beaver County Timesthat the doctor laid off Jumper so that she could claim unemployment benefits, describing the dismissal as a "humanitarian thing."

Does anyone believe her firing was a "humanitarian thing"? I don't.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

A Pennsylvania community is rallying around a woman who was fired from her job at an oral surgeon's office following her diagnosis with cancer.

Carol Jumper, who lives in Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania, was diagnosed with cancer impacting her pancreas, liver and ovaries in August. According to her fiancee, Dennis Smerigan, Jumper received a letter from her boss, Dr. George Visnich, in which the oral surgeon said he was laying her off without compensation. Raging Chicken Press published the letter on Sunday.

"The symptoms of the disease, the pain medications you will need and the side effects of the chemotherapy will be significant and distracting,” reads the handwritten note, which bears Visnich's letterhead. "You will not be able to function in my office at the level required while battling for your life. Because of this, I am laying you off without pay as of August 11, 2014."

The letter continues, "Our thoughts and prayers are with you as you fight this horrible disease. Thanks for your time at Visnich Oral Surgery. I hope your battle is swift, smooth, and successful!"

Smerigan told the Beaver Countian that his fiancee worked for Visnich for more than 12 years.

"He didn’t even call her, he hasn’t even called her once since she got sick," Smerigan said.

More: A Woman Told Her Boss About A Devastating Cancer Diagnosis. He Responded By Firing Her.

Based on the rest of the article, does anyone think the doctor is doing her a favor?

The guy is an asshole , but how is this news?

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

Obamacare does relate to politics - and I wonder how this doctor can legally fire her due to health reasons. After all, she has worked for him for 12 years. If nothing else, he surely screwed his reputation in the community. He should have handled this humanely and quietly with the employee.

Not for nothing dumb dumb , but he DID handle it quietly, the woman and her fiancee are the ones who made it public.

You are so stupid.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

From the OP link:

Visnich's office did not respond to multiple requests for comment by The Huffington Post. However, Larry Kelly, an attorney for Visnich, told the Beaver County Timesthat the doctor laid off Jumper so that she could claim unemployment benefits, describing the dismissal as a "humanitarian thing."

Does anyone believe her firing was a "humanitarian thing"? I don't.

Yes stupid. If the pain caused her to quit , she couldn't have collected UE.

Once again, you are a moron.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Why is this in Politics?

good question...Mods? Can you please move this to badlands or somewhere else.
Or delete it....

 

[thereisnospoon]

A Pennsylvania community is rallying around a woman who was fired from her job at an oral surgeon's office following her diagnosis with cancer.

Carol Jumper, who lives in Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania, was diagnosed with cancer impacting her pancreas, liver and ovaries in August. According to her fiancee, Dennis Smerigan, Jumper received a letter from her boss, Dr. George Visnich, in which the oral surgeon said he was laying her off without compensation. Raging Chicken Press published the letter on Sunday.

"The symptoms of the disease, the pain medications you will need and the side effects of the chemotherapy will be significant and distracting,” reads the handwritten note, which bears Visnich's letterhead. "You will not be able to function in my office at the level required while battling for your life. Because of this, I am laying you off without pay as of August 11, 2014."

The letter continues, "Our thoughts and prayers are with you as you fight this horrible disease. Thanks for your time at Visnich Oral Surgery. I hope your battle is swift, smooth, and successful!"

Smerigan told the Beaver Countian that his fiancee worked for Visnich for more than 12 years.

"He didn’t even call her, he hasn’t even called her once since she got sick," Smerigan said.

More: A Woman Told Her Boss About A Devastating Cancer Diagnosis. He Responded By Firing Her.

Based on the rest of the article, does anyone think the doctor is doing her a favor?

Now she can collect unemployment and possibly disability. She was NOT terminated "for cause"..

 

[thereisnospoon]

Obamacare does relate to politics - and I wonder how this doctor can legally fire her due to health reasons. After all, she has worked for him for 12 years. If nothing else, he surely screwed his reputation in the community. He should have handled this humanely and quietly with the employee.

What's this got to do with Obamacare?

 

[thereisnospoon]

From the OP link:

Visnich's office did not respond to multiple requests for comment by The Huffington Post. However, Larry Kelly, an attorney for Visnich, told the Beaver County Timesthat the doctor laid off Jumper so that she could claim unemployment benefits, describing the dismissal as a "humanitarian thing."

Does anyone believe her firing was a "humanitarian thing"? I don't.

Do you really think having her on duty while fighting a debilitating disease is humane?
You're such a fucking troll.

 

[Andylusion]

Pretty shitty thing to do to someone in their time of pain.

Obamacare does relate to politics - and I wonder how this doctor can legally fire her due to health reasons. After all, she has worked for him for 12 years. If nothing else, he surely screwed his reputation in the community. He should have handled this humanely and quietly with the employee.

I can't imagine how he could have handled it better. He did handle it quietly. It was the girls sister who made a photo copy, and splashed it all over the planet.

In fact, the girl herself, was against this, and has openly said, she wants the crap storm to go away. This doctor, will be forced out of the community, no question about it... and for trying to do a good deed.

Secondly, the girls fiance, is a liar. He said she had no income. That's a lie. The doctor said one of the reasons he laid her off, was so she could collect unemployment, and the doctor didn't dispute the unemployment either (FYI, employers can dispute unemployment claims). The girl herself said she was getting unemployment. So that claim by her lying BF, is false.

Lastly.... I have searched and searched and searched. No one anywhere that I can find, no news article I can pull up, none of the Facebook groups, or the other social media I have looked at.... none say what exactly this girls job was.

Think about that.... Oral Surgeon. Doctor of Dental Medicine D.M.D.

Think about that for a second. Unless she was secretary... what other jobs could she have been doing?

There is only one non-dental position in the average Dentist office. Secretary. Everyone else is cleaning teeth with long sharp pointy objects, or worse.

Tell me... do you want a woman suffering from extremely painful cancer, who can't sleep at night, and is now hopped up on drugs, drilling in your mouth?

And what happens which said woman slices your mouth up, and you find out the doctor knew about her condition, and kept her on?

Will any of you self proclaimed judge and jury people, be saying how humane the doctor was, when she screws up your mouth?

Now perhaps she was in fact the secretary. That's possible, but even then, you want her handling your medical records? What happens if she fumbles, and you end up with the wrong tooth pulled or drilled?

This doctor did what was best for himself, the rest of his staff which depend on his wise management, what was best for his patients and customers, and what was best for the girl herself. But the left, and bleeding heart, knee jerk reactionaries in our society, eager to attack anyone they can, have ruined this man for at least 5 to 10 years.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

Pretty shitty thing to do to someone in their time of pain.

Obamacare does relate to politics - and I wonder how this doctor can legally fire her due to health reasons. After all, she has worked for him for 12 years. If nothing else, he surely screwed his reputation in the community. He should have handled this humanely and quietly with the employee.

I can't imagine how he could have handled it better. He did handle it quietly. It was the girls sister who made a photo copy, and splashed it all over the planet.

In fact, the girl herself, was against this, and has openly said, she wants the crap storm to go away. This doctor, will be forced out of the community, no question about it... and for trying to do a good deed.

Secondly, the girls fiance, is a liar. He said she had no income. That's a lie. The doctor said one of the reasons he laid her off, was so she could collect unemployment, and the doctor didn't dispute the unemployment either (FYI, employers can dispute unemployment claims). The girl herself said she was getting unemployment. So that claim by her lying BF, is false.

Lastly.... I have searched and searched and searched. No one anywhere that I can find, no news article I can pull up, none of the Facebook groups, or the other social media I have looked at.... none say what exactly this girls job was.

Think about that.... Oral Surgeon. Doctor of Dental Medicine D.M.D.

Think about that for a second. Unless she was secretary... what other jobs could she have been doing?

There is only one non-dental position in the average Dentist office. Secretary. Everyone else is cleaning teeth with long sharp pointy objects, or worse.

Tell me... do you want a woman suffering from extremely painful cancer, who can't sleep at night, and is now hopped up on drugs, drilling in your mouth?

And what happens which said woman slices your mouth up, and you find out the doctor knew about her condition, and kept her on?

Will any of you self proclaimed judge and jury people, be saying how humane the doctor was, when she screws up your mouth?

Now perhaps she was in fact the secretary. That's possible, but even then, you want her handling your medical records? What happens if she fumbles, and you end up with the wrong tooth pulled or drilled?

This doctor did what was best for himself, the rest of his staff which depend on his wise management, what was best for his patients and customers, and what was best for the girl herself. But the left, and bleeding heart, knee jerk reactionaries in our society, eager to attack anyone they can, have ruined this man for at least 5 to 10 years.

But he was an asshole about it, no question. Only assholes fire people via email.

 

[Lakhota]

Does Carol Jumper have grounds for an EEOC complaint? Even if she does, they can take years to resolve.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

Does Carol Jumper have grounds for an EEOC complaint? Even if she does, they can take years to resolve.

^ This pussy wants to sue everyone, over EVERYTHING.