Employee Fired Over Empty Printer Cartridges
When you try and search for stuff to read concerning printers and printer ink cartridges, you will not only find legit and totally predictable stuff such as printer reviews and posts related to energy consumption and the environment; you may also find a thing or two where printers and printer cartridges suddenly play a rather unexpected role.
We have heard about politicians throwing printers off the table, or being taken under cover of night from the office of rival groups – and now we found one where the innocent printer cartridge – and empty ones at that – was caught in the middle of a lawsuit.
An employee is claiming that his employer – and we would rather not name names on our post as we do not have the writer’s license to do so – fired him over a baseless claim made by another co-worker. This co-worker, allegedly in order to get ahead in the organization, wanted him out of the way. And the best way to do that was to have him canned.
So what exactly was he accused of? According to the now ex-employee, he was accused of selling the office’s empty printer ink cartridges for his own gain. He was an employee of the firm for 24 years before he was fired due to the charges.
The employee claims, though, that he “never stole, smuggled, or sold empty cartridges for recycling”. Recycling is, in itself, a good thing, and it does not need to be dragged into controversies like these. At any rate, a case of unlawful dismissal has now been filed against the firm.
It looks like offices need to have a clear-cut policy on what ought to be done to recyclable items such as printer cartridges. This is, in our opinion, the root of all this hullabaloo; at least that’s what it seems like, since the selling of company cartridges for recycling seems to be rampant in that office. This is probably the reason why, if indeed the dismissal was unjust, “cartridge recycling without consent” was the ready accusation. There should be a company process with regards to monitoring cartridges from purchase down to disposal. This can be incorporated into a company’s environmental policy.
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