Is a DUI an automatic firing?

[Anonymous]

Is there any way to fight these? Do you tell your boss when it happens or wait until you fight it and lose?

 

[Anonymous]

Automatic firing?

Depends. Did they like you before?

If they didn't, then this will be the excuse they've been waiting for.

 

[Anonymous]

Is there any way to fight these? Do you tell your boss when it happens or wait until you fight it and lose?

You will get fired if you don't tell your DSM and they find out later. My suggestion is pay a DUI lawyer the $5,000 to fight it. The court will get tired and negotiate to a lower offense or drop all together.

 

[Anonymous]

Is there any way to fight these? Do you tell your boss when it happens or wait until you fight it and lose?

This is good stuff. You found out that somebody you don't like screwed up, so you immediately post it here NATIONALLY, knowing full well that the company will see it and most certainly scan everyone's driving records. You are a desperate, wicked person. Nobody in their right mind would call such attention to that big of a fuck up.

 

[Anonymous]

You will get fired if you don't tell your DSM and they find out later. My suggestion is pay a DUI lawyer the $5,000 to fight it. The court will get tired and negotiate to a lower offense or drop all together.

bravo on this

 

[Anonymous]

First of all they pull everyone's in September I think fall time anyway...

Secondly, go see a doctor for alcohol abuse, enroll in AA immediately you can make it look like a disability...get it....it makes it a lot harder on AZ if you can get it reduced to a lesser charge.

Third, tell your manager you will most certainly lose your job if you do not...if it were after the annual pull of records I'd say fight it and find a new job at the same time...but with them pulling records soon you're kind of screwed....

last please stop drinking and driving, we have all done it, and it is just not worth it...I think getting caught is pretty lucky, esp. if no one was hurt, it may have saved your life or someone else's. Like I said we have all done it so I don't judge (unless you're a repeat offender) I am sure you learned your lesson! I hope so...good luck!

 

[Anonymous]

You are done here at AZ. Plain and simple. The price you pay for being a stupid, dangerous drunk. You should be fired you pathetic alcoholic!

Good Selling!

 

[Anonymous]

No automatic firing as alcoholism is a disease so as long as you are willing to go to treatment and use a breath analyzer mechanism in your car you'll still have a job. They cant fire you for a disability. Enjoy your short term disability getting clean and sober. BTW Your DUI should have been reported within 24 hours to your manager. In the end, if your manager wants to can you he/she will find another reason to do so.

 

[Anonymous]

No automatic firing as alcoholism is a disease so as long as you are willing to go to treatment and use a breath analyzer mechanism in your car you'll still have a job. They cant fire you for a disability. Enjoy your short term disability getting clean and sober. BTW Your DUI should have been reported within 24 hours to your manager. In the end, if your manager wants to can you he/she will find another reason to do so.

So true. The liberals running the company don't understand that you have to produce something real in order to benefit, to them it's all about saying the right things and doing nothing other than sucking the lifeblood out of society. Patient Health First!

So just say the right things, to hell with the truth. Tell them you were so caught up in your disease that you didn't know what happened. You want help. Go out on disability tomorrow, find a leach therapist / doctor / analyst / psychiatrist, get into some kind of approved treatment program, and suck on the nipple. You and every other rep is on the nipple anyway, why waste the gas?

 

[Anonymous]

It used to be an automatic firing but then someone high in the ranks got nailed and suddenly it became a case by case issue. Informing your manager within 24 hours is the most important thing unless you are 100% sure that you will be screwed. They run the records in September so October is the best time to get a DUI if your manager hates you as you have 11 moths to job hunt before they run your record. If your district manager AND regional manager like you and they have power then you may survive but you will be on very thin ice for a year and on a final written warning. And it doesnt matterif you are convicted or not, it is solely about the arrest even if you get off (read the policy: guilty until proven innocent but then you are still guilty)

 

[Anonymous]

Ahhh, just go have another drink! Tell no one and start looking for another job. You will have to have the first of the year anyway, so why not get a head start on the rest of us!

Cheers!

 

[Anonymous]

so many of you are such self-righteous jerks. One d.u.i. does not make you an alcoholic. It does make you to have a stupid mistake and you should never do it again. Every one of you who posted on this, more than likely, could have been unlucky as the O/P was and gotten caught. It is as simple as that. Most people who get one d.u.i. are not alcoholics and they were just stupid and got caught. Getting caught is the word. Any of us who have ever had a few drinks could have gotten caught. This whole aa stuff is so lame as the O/P probably isn't an alcoholic anyway. So get off your high horse and have some empathy. I have empathy for people who get one as they are just stupid and need to learn a valuable lesson which I know a friend of mine did. He got caught--is not an alcoholic and he is very remorseful and learned a valuable lesson. And, you can't get it off your record=--in most states for 10 years no matter what you pay an attorney. I know in Texas you can't. He tried to-he was willing to pay anything--no go. good luck to o/p and don't do it again!!!!

 

[Anonymous]

compliance says you have 24 hours to inform BOTH your DSM & Corp of ANY traffic citation.
They tried to assign me extra points & a higher risk category claiming I had not notified HQ. I had the proof to back me up and it was settled!

 

[Anonymous]

so many of you are such self-righteous jerks. One d.u.i. does not make you an alcoholic. It does make you to have a stupid mistake and you should never do it again. Every one of you who posted on this, more than likely, could have been unlucky as the O/P was and gotten caught. It is as simple as that. Most people who get one d.u.i. are not alcoholics and they were just stupid and got caught. Getting caught is the word. Any of us who have ever had a few drinks could have gotten caught. This whole aa stuff is so lame as the O/P probably isn't an alcoholic anyway. So get off your high horse and have some empathy. I have empathy for people who get one as they are just stupid and need to learn a valuable lesson which I know a friend of mine did. He got caught--is not an alcoholic and he is very remorseful and learned a valuable lesson. And, you can't get it off your record=--in most states for 10 years no matter what you pay an attorney. I know in Texas you can't. He tried to-he was willing to pay anything--no go. good luck to o/p and don't do it again!!!!

awww...i feel so bad for your friend. Can I introduce you to my friend? She is 19, she'll be 19 forever. See, she was stupid too. She was walking down the street one day. Stupid her. She stepped into a crosswalk because the right of way was hers. Whoops! A "just stupid" drunk ran her over and killed her. Now her parents live with wondering what life would have been like if their own child was able to finish school, get marrried, have kids, etc.

So let's have empathy for those "just being stupid" drinkers.



Oh yeah....and fuck you asshole!

 

[Anonymous]

so many of you are such self-righteous jerks. One d.u.i. does not make you an alcoholic. It does make you to have a stupid mistake and you should never do it again. Every one of you who posted on this, more than likely, could have been unlucky as the O/P was and gotten caught. It is as simple as that. Most people who get one d.u.i. are not alcoholics and they were just stupid and got caught. Getting caught is the word. Any of us who have ever had a few drinks could have gotten caught. This whole aa stuff is so lame as the O/P probably isn't an alcoholic anyway. So get off your high horse and have some empathy. I have empathy for people who get one as they are just stupid and need to learn a valuable lesson which I know a friend of mine did. He got caught--is not an alcoholic and he is very remorseful and learned a valuable lesson. And, you can't get it off your record=--in most states for 10 years no matter what you pay an attorney. I know in Texas you can't. He tried to-he was willing to pay anything--no go. good luck to o/p and don't do it again!!!!

Sorry, for every 1 "just being stupid" drunk driver story, there's 10 tragic loss of innocent life stories at the hand of the above mentioned stupid drunk. Your empathy is misguided.

 

[Anonymous]

awww...i feel so bad for your friend. Can I introduce you to my friend? She is 19, she'll be 19 forever. See, she was stupid too. She was walking down the street one day. Stupid her. She stepped into a crosswalk because the right of way was hers. Whoops! A "just stupid" drunk ran her over and killed her. Now her parents live with wondering what life would have been like if their own child was able to finish school, get marrried, have kids, etc.

So let's have empathy for those "just being stupid" drinkers.



Oh yeah....and fuck you asshole!

There are statistics that prove unequivocally that fatalities would be down if driving were prohibited at night. Ditto for lowering the speed limit to 45. There is also a clear connection between elderly drivers and impairment. So if you're going to demonize drinking and driving, demonize these other things too -- a life's not worth it, right? If you need to go somewhere at night, it can wait until tomorrow! You'd better drive 25 MPH getting there, and when you get past 60, let someone else drive. We need every parent to know what it's like to see their child finish school and get married, so we should do all we can to help.

 

[Anonymous]

Is there any way to fight these? Do you tell your boss when it happens or wait until you fight it and lose?

Nope. Fax your car keys to Delaware. Don't waste the 5 grand. Pull the fork out. You're done.

 

[Anonymous]

compliance says you have 24 hours to inform BOTH your DSM & Corp of ANY traffic citation.
They tried to assign me extra points & a higher risk category claiming I had not notified HQ. I had the proof to back me up and it was settled!

You ARE in a higher risk category, you moron! You got a DUI whether or not you informed AZ or not.

Thankfully, rule of US goverment law still trumps AsstraZeneca. Yes I know Brennan the Boob thinks he is above the law.

 

[Anonymous]

There are statistics that prove unequivocally that fatalities would be down if driving were prohibited at night. Ditto for lowering the speed limit to 45. There is also a clear connection between elderly drivers and impairment. So if you're going to demonize drinking and driving, demonize these other things too -- a life's not worth it, right? If you need to go somewhere at night, it can wait until tomorrow! You'd better drive 25 MPH getting there, and when you get past 60, let someone else drive. We need every parent to know what it's like to see their child finish school and get married, so we should do all we can to help.

you really can't be this much of an asshole, can you?

 

[Anonymous]

VERY IMPORTANT!!

TAKE FMLA, intermittently, this protects your job on a federal level!! this is not an option to keeping your job. you get 90 days & if you take disability and whenever you come back your job is safer because it will look like retaliation, EEOC will protect you!