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17 Aug 2020
speculates · medium · dan friesen · 00:39:38
#470: ShadowGate
Patrick Berge was fired for insubordination and unauthorized charges rather than for enlisting in the military.

Berge claims that he was fired for, quote, putting country before company, but the story doesn't seem so cut and dry. His boss, Dr. Klein, himself an Air Force veteran, quote, said Berge stopped showing up for work shortly after he told Klein on October 3rd of his plan to join the military. He declined to comment further on Berge's employment status or work history. Fair. As part of the 1994 Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, you cannot discriminate against an employee for enlisting, and you're required to rehire returning enlisted persons after their active duty is over, so that would have been a problem. However, according to this Times article, quote, In an October 18th letter Klein sent to Berge, the doctor lauded him for his desire to serve his country and said he intended to comply with federal labor laws. But Klein also said that Berge had been, quote, repeatedly insubordinate, that he had rung up a $340 charge in unauthorized charges on the company's phone, and was unresponsive to reports of computer problems at the clinic. Oh, do you mean his job? That's what it sounds like. Okay. It kind of seems like there is some documentation here that maybe his boss... An Air Force veteran wasn't retaliating against Berge for enlisting as much as he was dealing with a shitty employee who coincidentally was also deciding to enlist.