{"id":281693,"date":"2016-10-26T09:07:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T13:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281693"},"modified":"2020-10-31T09:12:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T13:12:57","slug":"man-fired-after-29-years-on-the-job-for-paying-someones-5-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/man-fired-after-29-years-on-the-job-for-paying-someones-5-toll\/","title":{"rendered":"Man fired after 29 years on the job for paying someone\u2019s $5 toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Capitalist companies create inhumane behaviors.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A 77-year-old toll booth operator was fired after 29 years on the job after using his own money to cover the toll of a driver that\u00a0didn&#8217;t have the money.<\/p>\n<p>Vladislav &#8216;Sam&#8217; Samsonov of Boca Grande was asked by his employer, the\u00a0Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority, to scale back his work days from 5 to 2 after the infraction. \u00a0Samsonov declined the suggestion and was, instead, terminated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In my eyes there was no crime committed, I just helped somebody out,&#8217; he said. \u00a0&#8216;I&#8217;d put the six dollars in, I got the six dollars back the next day.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The transit authority had asked him to stop doing this, as he had been doing it for a while.<\/p>\n<p>After he was fired, the community rallied around him with supportive emails, news articles and messages on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The transit authority did not have a comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.minds.com\/blog\/view\/637730690112172050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/www.minds.com\/blog\/view\/637730690112172050<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Capitalist companies create inhumane behaviors. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":281694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}