Hey protester, you're fired.

Pretty sinister that the police are acting that way.

Having said that, I don't find myself having *that* much sympathy for someone fired because of calling in sick in order to go to a public place and behave in a manner designed to attract attention to himself.
 
Robert said:
Having said that, I don't find myself having *that* much sympathy for someone fired because of calling in sick in order to go to a public place and behave in a manner designed to attract attention to himself.
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He should perhaps have taken a vacation day. Still, either way it reduces the liabilities on the company books so improves the bottom line at least as the accountants get to report it.
 
More likely scenario:

  • He called in sick
  • He drove his "company" issued truck to the protest, and parked in a city parking garage
  • He didn't pay upon leaving (ran the gate)
  • the parking garage reviewed surveillance cameras to ID the vehicle, tag & driver
  • mailed the vehicle owner of record, with photo proof and bill
 
metalman said:
More likely scenario:

  • He called in sick
  • He drove his "company" issued truck to the protest, and parked in a city parking garage
  • He didn't pay upon leaving (ran the gate)
  • the parking garage reviewed surveillance cameras to ID the vehicle, tag & driver
  • mailed the vehicle owner of record, with photo proof and bill
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And mailed the company a picture of their employee protesting. He tweeted the picks of him at the protest, his truck plate and the truck which were the pictures the police sent to his employer.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
And mailed the company a picture of their employee protesting. He tweeted the picks of him at the protest, his truck plate and the truck which were the pictures the police sent to his employer.
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All the photos where taken inside the parking garage

they mail to address of vehicle title holder
 
metalman said:
he confirms in a Nov 1st tweet that it was a company truck he was driving
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Yes, he does. Interesting that the cops said he was involved in a "hit&run" though. That seems to be something they made up so they could contact his employer - which they otherwise would have had no authority to do if he was simply protesting.
 
https://twitter.com/Anon4justice/status/396481746314616832
(1of2) OPD contacted my employer to "investigate a hit&run" in company work truck, OPD stated that they wanted to speak with the driver.....
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https://twitter.com/Anon4justice/status/396483395204558849
(2of2) Y didnt OPD mention anything at all about a supposed hit&run when they pulled me over for front lic plate hour aftr contacting boss?
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https://twitter.com/Anon4justice/status/397875823014707201
I mask up differently depending on action. OPD followed me back to truck so wldnt have mattered how maskd i was.
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metalman said:
It's in the garage, look at the concrete floor, has tire tracks, picture taken inside a building, no daylighting, no other protesters in picture, picture taken looking down at an angle (e.g. ceiling mount surveillance camera)
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If you check the area around outside the Marriott in Oakland, they have those two tone sidewalks (pinkish and gray) like in the protest photo. Which is where the guy says the protest picture is from.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
If you check the area around outside the Marriott in Oakland, they have those two tone sidewalks (pinkish and gray) like in the protest photo. Which is where the guy says the protest picture is from.
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The Courtyard is a shaded entry/exit area, and street view shows several overhead surveillance cameras

there are parking garage entrances on both Franklin and Webber St to the Marriott Complex, and also Franklin and Webber St parking garage entrances to the East Bay Utilities on the same block, so he probably parked in the Marriott complex parking garage
 
metalman said:
The Courtyard is a shaded entry/exit area, and street view shows several overhead surveillance cameras

there are parking garage entrances on both Franklin and Webber St to the Marriott Complex, and also Franklin and Webber St parking garage entrances to the East Bay Utilities on the same block, so he probably parked in the Marriott complex parking garage
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So he probably parked in the Marriott complex ... and? So what. He didn't (as you speculated) run the gate and the parking lot didn't trace the plate to his employer. The police traced his plate on the basis of a hit&run they seem to have fabricated and whether or not the pictures came from police or private surveillance (which they had no legal cause to obtain) they had no grounds to trace the truck or send these pictures to his employer.

Probably the guy shouldn't have called in sick and probably he shouldn't have taken his company vehicle - but should the police be forwarding this stuff to his employer? Is that the job of the police? Should the police be reporting to employers every time an employee takes a sick day when they aren't sick (maybe to go "see" a girlfriend, maybe to visit mum at the care-home), should the police be making sure that employees don't drive the company truck out to the ball game or other non-work related events?
 
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