no good deed goes unpunished

[Joeydego]

Suit: Woman fired after donating kidney to boss | Fox News

A “kind and generous’’ Long Island mom donated a kidney to save the life of her boss — who then turned around after she got what she wanted and helped fire the poor woman, according to an explosive new legal complaint.
“I decided to become a kidney donor to my boss, and she took my heart,’’ Debbie Stevens, a 47-year-old divorced mother of two, sobbed to The Post.
In papers filed Friday with the state Human Rights commission, Stevens charges that she was clearly set up by Jackie Brucia, 61, her once-ailing boss at the billion-dollar Atlantic Automotive Group, which operates several new-car dealerships.
Stevens said she first got to know Brucia, one of the West Islip company’s controllers, while toiling as a clerical worker for the firm starting in January 2009.
Stevens then left the company in June 2010 to move to Florida. But when she returned to Long Island for a visit that September, she stopped by the office and talked with Brucia, a discussion that included Brucia’s health problems and “her need for a kidney transplant,’’ the papers state.
Stevens told The Post that Brucia told her she’d located a possible donor, a family friend.
But “because she was naturally a kind and generous person, Stevens told Brucia that, if necessary, she would be willing to donate a kidney,’’ the document says.
“Brucia . . . told her, ‘You never know, I may have to take you up on that offer one day,’ ” the papers say.
Soon after, Stevens decided to move back to Long Island for good and asked Brucia if she could return to work there. She had a job with the company again within weeks.
Then, two months later, in January 2011, Stevens told The Post, Brucia “called me into her office and said, ‘My donor was denied. Were you serious when you said that?’ I said, ‘Sure, yeah.’ She was my boss, I respected her. It’s just who I am. I didn’t want her to die.’’
Brucia had been “apparently grooming her to be her ‘backup plan,’ ” according to the papers.
But while Stevens was a close health match for Brucia, she wasn’t a perfect one. So the doctors agreed to allow Stevens to donate her left kidney to someone else in the transplant group so that Brucia could move up the waiting list and get her organ from someone else.

Stevens said she did not realize that she was in for serious pain, discomfort in her legs and digestive problems after the surgery on Aug. 10, 2011. She said she felt pressured to return to work Sept. 6, before she was ready — even while her boss was still recovering at home. When Stevens went home sick three days after her return, she said, Brucia actually called her from home to berate her.
“She . . . said, ‘What are you doing? Why aren’t you at work?’ I told her I didn’t feel good,’’ Stevens told The Post. “She said, ‘You can’t come and go as you please. People are going to think you’re getting special treatment.’ ”
Stevens said that her office and overtime were eventually taken away and that she was demoted to a dealership 50 miles from her home in a high-crime neighborhood that co-workers jokingly called “Siberia.’’ Experiencing mental anguish, she consulted a psychiatrist. and her lawyers wrote a letter to the company — after which Stevens was quickly fired, the papers state.
Brucia did not return phone calls from The Post. She was spotted outside her Babylon home Friday getting into a limo with plastic cups and what appeared to be a bottle of pink champagne.
On Sunday, her husband, James, told a reporter the claims were “far from the truth,’’ but declined to say how. “She didn’t fire anybody,’’ he only said.
AAG also did not return a request for comment.
Stevens’ lawyer, Lenard Leeds, said he plans to file a discrimination lawsuit against AAG, and would likely seek millions of dollars in compensation.
Another lawyer for Stevens, Jason Barbara, added, “[Brucia] turns on her, and she should have been kissing her feet.’’
Still, Stevens said, “I have no regrets [that] I donated a kidney because it saved the life of a man in Missouri.’’
Click here to read more on this story from the New York Post.


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[SoWhat?]

I guess I'll take "Organ Donor" off my resume'.


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[Joeydego]

just putting ungratefulness in perspective.

[Phoenix59]

Jesus. If someone gave me a kidney (and in case you don't know, I AM a kidney patient) I *would* be kissing their feet and probably whatever other parts of their anatomy they requested.

That woman should have her kidney repossessed.

[Skintaster]

She should sue to get her kidney back.

[SoWhat?]

Originally Posted by Joeydego

just putting ungratefulness in perspective.

Yeah, you are absolutely right.

It sounds like the "Boss" screwed over this kind hearted woman.

That is why I try to keep business and personal life separate.

Lines get blurred, and unrealistic expectations are created. Some people naturally take advantage of any situation they can.

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[Superlizard]

Appropriate justice:

Kidney thieves break into Brucia's home, drug her, steal her kidney and leave her in the bathtub.

[LeftyF2003]

If I were her I would ask for it back

[Thumpalumpacus]

It's really hard for me to wrap my head around the heartlessness some people have.

Also, I wonder if the boss had the employee's medical records scanned for compatibility information? How did she know whom to cultivate for a backup plan?

[MineGoesTo11]

Is there a donor's remorse period?

Yank that kidney back!

[exPFCWintergreen]

Originally Posted by LeftyF2003

If I were her I would ask for it back

If I were her, I'd take it out with a spoon.

[Tone deaf]

Joey, I saw that article earlier and couldn't bring myself to read it.

In my personal code of conduct book, if you give someone a kidney (while you're still alive), whether or not it is ever verbalized, the recipient owes you a debt of gratitude for life. That debt of gratitude can be repaid through kindness and consideration or by deed or by living a good and honest life. Nowhere in my book does it say that it is ok to screw over the donor. But that's just me, I'm old fashioned that way.

There is a special place in hell for people like that.

[River side]

I wonder if that's the whole story...

[Tone deaf]

Originally Posted by Skintaster

She should sue to get her kidney back.

I don't know why but I can't like your post. I'm glad I didn't have a mouthful of coffee, when I read it.

I guess short of getting the kidney back, she can let the world know what a rotten POS that old bag is (and the company, too), while she waits for justice via the legal system (the fact that we see that article is thanks to her legal team). I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to be one of the defendants and put this baby in the hands of a jury...(gee, I wonder if that's what her attorneys are thinking with an article like this?).

I smell quick settlement with mutual non-disparagement clauses and a non-disclosure agreement.

[tampa898]

Man oh man.

[River side]

She "gave" a kidney to benefit a car salesman?

Go figure.

[SFK]

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[ehs5mw]

The boss has someone else's kidney, and the fired woman's kidney saved another man's life. It's not her kidney I would request back, since I am assuming she does not have a problem with the man who received her kidney.

[SoWhat?]

You guys didn't read the story. The boss didn't actually get her kidney.

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[River side]

Originally Posted by SoWhat?

You guys didn't read the story. The boss didn't actually get her kidney.

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No, he only benefited by fishing her into donating for someone else.

That makes it even better.

[BillB1960]

Originally Posted by SoWhat?

You guys didn't read the story. The boss didn't actually get her kidney.

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No but she was moved up the list to get a new one based on the subordinate donating hers to someone else. Frankly that seems a little weird to me.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Originally Posted by SoWhat?

You guys didn't read the story. The boss didn't actually get her kidney.

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Well, that makes it all okey-dokey.

Right, move along now.

[12watt]

[Grand Toad]

Originally Posted by exPFCWintergreen

If I were her, I'd take it out with a spoon.

I think a plastic fork would be more apropos.

[Phoenix59]

Originally Posted by BillB1960

No but she was moved up the list to get a new one based on the subordinate donating hers to someone else. Frankly that seems a little weird to me.

Actually, that is a normal part of most transplant programs.

[kmk108]

Still, Stevens said, “I have no regrets [that] I donated a kidney because it saved the life of a man in Missouri.’’

Oh man, we don't need more Missourians walking around

[cmh6122]

Originally Posted by Grand Toad

I think a plastic fork would be more apropos.

Ooooh, how about a spork!

One would think that an organ donor would rate special consideration in a decent corporation whether there was another employee involved or not.
There may be more to this, but if I was to believe in Hell it would be my hope that there was a special place there for folk like Ms. Brucia.

[Guitarhack]

Someone with a new kidney should be more careful how they treat people. Look out for karma.

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[music to my ears]

She may have donated her organ for the wrong reasons to begin with. Did she even consider the possible health problems that would follow after you take a major organ out of your body at 47 years old? Im just not convinced she would have done that for the receptionist down the hall?

[SteveGangi]

Originally Posted by Phoenix59

Jesus. If someone gave me a kidney (and in case you don't know, I AM a kidney patient) I *would* be kissing their feet and probably whatever other parts of their anatomy they requested.

That woman should have her kidney repossessed.

That's what I was thinking. get a big knife, some rope, and go Repo Man on that bitch.