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Woman Behind Controversial Military Breastfeeding Photo Gets Fired: Fair or Foul?

U-Dog 2012/06/16 13:29:20
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    Photo: Brynja Sigurdardottir

    The woman who organized an awareness campaign that came under fire for featuring two airmen breastfeeding while in uniform has been fired from her civilian job as an X-ray technician, her lawyer tells Yahoo! Shine.

    Crystal Scott, an Army veteran, military spouse, and the program director of the Mom2Mom breastfeeding awareness group at Fairchild Air Force Base, was terminated by Schryver Medical, a provider of X-rays, EKGs, ultrasounds, and other medical digital imaging services, on June 1.

    "She was fired due to her passion about the Mom2Mom breastfeeding campaign and speaking out on gender equality and women's rights," her lawyer, Patricia (Pat) K. Buchanan, told Yahoo! Shine in an interview on Friday.

    "This kind of took us by surprise," Schryver Medical's president, Jay Schryver, told Yahoo! Shine on the phone on Friday. He issued a formal statement soon after.

    "Crystal Scott was terminated by the company on June 1st for various legitimate employment-related reasons," he wrote in the statement. "Amongst other things, on the day prior to her termination, Ms. Scott had clocked in to the company’s timekeeping system and had been assigned time-sensitive tasks that were wholly ignored. Thereafter, Ms. Scott ignored the company’s repeated attempts to contact her to inquire as to her whereabouts and status of her job assignments. When the company finally did get a hold of Ms. Scott, she informed them that she was sick and would not be working. Based on company records – including GPS data from a company van that had been assigned to her – Ms. Scott was actually at a local media outlet conducting personal business, on company time, using company equipment as transportation."

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    • sglmom 2012/06/16 14:44:05
      Fair, If you Can't Do Your Job Somebody Else Will.
      sglmom
      +5
      This is why I state FAIR ..

      "Based on company records – including GPS data from a company van that had been assigned to her – Ms. Scott was actually at a local media outlet conducting personal business, on company time, using company equipment as transportation."

      When you are on company time .. clocked into the job ..
      when you are using Company resources .. (company Van)
      you should be WORKING ..
      doing the job ..
      (Obviously .. she was NOT ILL at all .. don't know how being in a MEDIA place is somehow 'ill' or 'sick')

      NOT out and about IGNORING your work and engaging in PERSONAL campaigns or activities .. on Work Time, clocked in and using WORK Resources

      This was completely fair indeed ..
      (I know many companies which have this policy .. and it is fairly applied to all levels of their employment/management structure)

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    • Sydney.nightshade 2012/07/09 20:31:14
      Foul, They Were Just Looking For An Excuse.
      Sydney.nightshade
      +1
      I voted before reading the details which have NOTHING to do with being a breastfeeding mother. If I were an employer and she was actually doing what the details stated, then yes I would have fired her as well. I think people are throwing in the fact that she was a breast feeding mom to draw attention away from the fact that she screwed up on the job. If she had been fired for her views or the fact that she was a breast feeding mother, then I would be concerned.
    • U-Dog Sydney.... 2012/07/09 21:30:43
      U-Dog
      Others seem to have gotten confused over the posting too but it was not one of the breast feeding moms that was fired, it was the lady who took the photos of them and started the fuss in the first place.-)
    • Sgt Major B 2012/06/16 17:00:46 (edited)
      Fair, If you Can't Do Your Job Somebody Else Will.
      Sgt Major B
      +1
      Ye take the king's shilling, ye do the king's bidding...

      "...Based on company records – including GPS data from a company van that had been assigned to her – Ms. Scott was actually at a local media outlet conducting personal business, on company time, using company equipment as transportation..."

      Absolutely a righteous termination. If you're lookin' for sympathy, consult "Webster's", I don't have any....
    • mwg0735 2012/06/16 15:59:56
    • Patric 2012/06/16 15:31:48
      Fair, If you Can't Do Your Job Somebody Else Will.
      Patric
      +1
      bad move, poor form ,, doing personal work on the employers time clock ? that will bet you fired each and every time...
    • Headhunter 13 2012/06/16 14:49:10
      Fair, If you Can't Do Your Job Somebody Else Will.
      Headhunter 13
      +2
      From what I have read it had nothing to do with her campaign on breast feeding. She was fired for cause. If they were just looking for an excuse she openly and proudly gave them one. I think she is more concerned with publicity and self promotion and possibly a frivolous law suit than anything else
    • Sister Jean 2012/06/16 14:45:45
      None of the above
      Sister Jean
      +1
      if that's why foul if other I am not sure
    • U-Dog Sister ... 2012/06/16 14:50:52 (edited)
      U-Dog
      If the company has proof of her dereliction then IMO they were in the right to let her go.
    • sglmom 2012/06/16 14:44:05
      Fair, If you Can't Do Your Job Somebody Else Will.
      sglmom
      +5
      This is why I state FAIR ..

      "Based on company records – including GPS data from a company van that had been assigned to her – Ms. Scott was actually at a local media outlet conducting personal business, on company time, using company equipment as transportation."

      When you are on company time .. clocked into the job ..
      when you are using Company resources .. (company Van)
      you should be WORKING ..
      doing the job ..
      (Obviously .. she was NOT ILL at all .. don't know how being in a MEDIA place is somehow 'ill' or 'sick')

      NOT out and about IGNORING your work and engaging in PERSONAL campaigns or activities .. on Work Time, clocked in and using WORK Resources

      This was completely fair indeed ..
      (I know many companies which have this policy .. and it is fairly applied to all levels of their employment/management structure)
    • lonewolf 2012/06/16 14:25:20
      Fair, If you Can't Do Your Job Somebody Else Will.
      lonewolf
    • TasselLady 2012/06/16 14:03:34
      Foul, They Were Just Looking For An Excuse.
      TasselLady
      +1
      Wrongful termination.
    • Katfish 2012/06/16 14:02:50
      Foul, They Were Just Looking For An Excuse.
      Katfish
      +2
      Those are nice puppies, what was the question again?
    • Vision of Verve 2012/06/16 13:48:02
    • Flamingolady 2012/06/16 13:39:30
      Foul, They Were Just Looking For An Excuse.
      Flamingolady
      This should never be a firing offense. Shame on them for firing these mothers for breast feeding! Don't get me wrong, in my day we would not have breastfed in public, nor would we have allowed a photo to be taken, but this is not something to fire someone over.
    • Headhun... Flaming... 2012/06/16 14:51:18
      Headhunter 13
      +2
      Try reading the article is was neither of the mothers that were breastfeeding and it was not for breast feeding. She was fired for cause plain and simple.
    • Flaming... Headhun... 2012/06/16 19:39:15
      Flamingolady
      Okay, then what was the question for? It seemed as if the reason was for breast feeding, and the pictures appeared to be of military women. That was confusing, no? The article could have been ancillary to the actual pictures, etc. Was this done to purposely mislead so you could point out that one thing was only illustrating the other?
    • Jorge Enriquez 2012/06/16 13:34:49
      Foul, They Were Just Looking For An Excuse.
      Jorge Enriquez
      what is wrong on that?
    • HarleyCharley 2012/06/16 13:31:05
      None of the above
      HarleyCharley
      +1
      they should not have done it in uniform..
    • U-Dog HarleyC... 2012/06/16 13:33:28
      U-Dog
      +3
      That wasn't an answer to my question but OK.
    • Headhun... HarleyC... 2012/06/16 14:51:46 (edited)
      Headhunter 13
      +2
      Try reading the article it was neither of the mothers that were breastfeeding and it was not for breast feeding

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