Pasco casino worker fired for calling police
PASCO, Wash. (AP) - A woman who worked at a Pasco casino says she was fired for calling police when she saw a man hit his girlfriend.
Jessica Haines told KNDU she was off the clock and had changed out of her uniform last Thursday when she saw the man strike the woman and drive away from the Lucky Bridge Casino. She jotted down the license number and called police.
She was fired Sunday. Manager Pond Muony says she failed to follow procedures and should have notified casino management and security first.
Haines says she felt an obligation and responsibility to call police when she saw how scared the woman looked. Officers did not find the car and don't know what happened to the woman.
This would be a lawsuit I could stand behind. These owners are out of their minds.
At the end of the article the reporter says, "The Kennewick police never did find that couple" If they had the license plate number that the fired employee reported to them, it'd seem pretty easy to track the owner of the vehicle. All around it appears to be pretty lame police work, reporting, and lack of character from the management of "Schmucky Bridge Casino"
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Sounds like this is the kind of place she doesn't need to be working for, anyway. I hope she can find work elsewhere quickly. Kudos for calling the police on that scumbag.
Sue them, and win.
I really hope the casino management is reading these comments.
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Because the management at this places sucks. They are little more than used goat feed.
I hope a local business offers a really good job. We actually need more people willing to do the right thing and this certainly counts as that.
She must have called the police on one of the casinos "high rollers". They sure don't want to lose him. Good for her for calling the police. It sucks that it happen so close to Christmas but she did the right thing.
She did the right thing, right off the bat. Publicity will probably put the club out of business.
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In all the HR videos I've ever been forced to watch, the policy has been to call police/fire first and THEN notify company security. Those extra seconds count In emergency situations.Â
And what was casino management and security going to do...run the license plate on their computers...oh wait...follow them in their police cars...oh wait...arrest them when they found them...oh wait.
Note to self. When visiting family in Pasco do not go to Lucky Bridge.
Casino's, big business, churches are pretty much all the same, they are the law. At least thats the way they treat their people. More concerned with their own PR than anyone's safety.
Take the firing as a blessing. I wouldn't want to work for such a POS employer.Â
 @HallandOates Not everyone has that "choice", some people have to take whatever work is available.
So the employee was off the clock and did not follow a proceedure that is required likely when on the clock? Law suit,you bet!
Unless she witnessed these events on a security camera owned by the casino, or the alleged assult happened inside the building, I'd say she has a pretty good case here. But then maybe there is more to this story?
 @barkingmad Unless there was some specific rule regarding off-duty employees and how they are supposed to respond to an emergency situation, I think this lady will have a solid case against her employer. But I would also bet that if she does get re-hired, she may not be seen in a favorable light by her supervisor or the management.Â
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I think she would be better off to file a lawsuit for improper termination, take the money and find another line of work.
Hey Casino management! So what you're saying is anytime, anyplace, when your employees on are their own time they need to check in with you before calling 911? Give me a break fools.
That is absolutely ridiculous! I hope she sues and I hope she wins.
I smell lawsuit. This one would be justified.
The only reason I can think of is the guy is a big spender and management wanted him out of jail
It makes me wonder if the management knew or was friends with the guy doing the hitting?
That is the craziest thing I've every heard of. The man drove off with the victim still in the car, from the sounds of it, and calling right away gives the police more of a chance of finding her. What on earth would or could have the casino staff done other than what she just did? Or is this a case of the casino doing something they shouldn't be and wanted a heads up so they could hide it before the cops arrive?
 @queenofthenight Actually if you read the article that is linked above, they said that the man drove off after hitting the woman and the woman turned to the off-duty employee and looked so scared that she felt obligated to make the call. But you're right that it's crazy, and that the casino staff should have been willing to call the police, too.
 @spacegoddess I did and I thought this meant the victim looked out the window of the car."And she just looked out the window, and I've never seen anybody look so scared in my life, so I called the cops....and I would do it again and again, because its what I was supposed to do," she recalls.
This casino is so WRONG. What she does off the clock is her business.Â
That is BS. She did the right thing. I really question the competence of that casino if this is the way they handle situations. Obviously, they try to keep "problems" that occur at their location out of the public eye.... what else are they hiding?
Firing her for doing the right thing?!?!
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Oh man, I'll hire the heck out of her once the business I'm working on is off the ground!
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She was off the clock, outside of the casino and out of uniform- why SHOULDN'T she have called the cops?