My wife has been trying to vounteer with a hospital for a month now. She went in to do the 6 hour intro meeting. The 1st 2 hours were for her but the last 4 hours were all about benifits and vacation packages that didn't even apply to her. She informed this 3rd rate hospital about all the time they waisted of hers and how they should have given her a hospital walk through in a writen letter. Now they are calling her a racist and not allowing her to volunteer at the hospital. She is from California & San fancisco. She strongly dislikes ignorent, lazy, people, who waist other peoples time and money but she is not racist. She knows the facts on many issues but what are the facts in this issue? She purchased scrubs to go volunteer and spent 6 hours on this interview along with getting her hopes up just to knock her down. Is there any legal action that we can take against this hospital?
2007-10-18 09:43:55 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
The bay area sucks in this way. Believe me, I'm a patient (or always trying to be a patient) at my local east bay county med center and these people are racists. But they will call you racist every time you disagree with them. But we all know the truth. They discriminate against white people, smart people, you name it. They're total weirdos. You have a legal case in the real world but in our neck of the woods you are going to have a hard time getting anyone to care. We're probably gonna have to all move away soon.
2007-10-18 09:49:58 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I doubt there is any legal action. She was clearly not an employee. The hospital is a business and they can set their own rules as to which person may volunteer in their building. Is she sure the program was just for volunteers? I would agree that having a four hour session about benefits she can't get is a waste of time. However it seems that the volunteer program may be intended for people who will be working there in a paid position later on. More like an internship rather than volunteer work.
I think you have left out some facts here. I don't see how you go from complaining about 4 hours of time to being a racist. Laws do vary from state to state. There may be local state laws that apply to volunteers. However, they are saying she is racists and you do not claim that they have discriminated against her on the basis of race. Therefore I do not see a case here.
2007-10-18 16:52:24 · answer #2 · answered by hensleyclaw 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree that it was a waste of time for your wife, but getting in their faces about it wasn't helpful. If she were trying to volunteer for me and went off after the orientation session, I would have declined to have her volunteer for me, too.
Whether she's a racist or not is up to people who know her better, but obviously something else was said other than a comment about time being wasted or race would never have been made an issue.
As far as suing them, you didn't lose anything, so you can't sue them for anything. The fact that they refused to accept her volunteer services because of her stank attitude isn't worthy of any legal action, and just makes you both look like bigger jerks than you already do. Tell your wife to volunteer at another hospital -- and maybe to wait until she starts to work there before she goes off at the mouth on their policies.
2007-10-18 18:44:11 · answer #3 · answered by Hillary 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is there any legal action that we can take against this hospital? - NOPE. If she behaved that way going for a JOB they could have fired her. Regardless of the racist charge, she obviously did not fit in and 6 hours into her volunteer work she felt it was her place to tell the hospital how they should do things. I would have shown her the door as well.
2007-10-18 16:53:18 · answer #4 · answered by davidmi711 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Aside from being inconsiderate of her time, it doesn't really sound like you have a legal basis for a lawsuit. Unless they promised her something in writing I do believe the hospital is at liberty to pick and choose their volunteers.
Unless they are somehow harrassing her and/or defaming her character it doesn't really seem like they did anything legally wrong.
Besides, for the money you would spend on a lawsuit it wouldn't be worth your time and effort.
2007-10-18 16:53:21 · answer #5 · answered by NotoriousOne 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The policies and procedures of the hospital, though possibly ignorant, are not hers to judge and make comments on. Her mistake, though not racism, was inappropriate for anyone. If policy dictated that she were to attend the orientation in full, then she should have attended without comment. There is probably no legal action to be taken, but even if there were, it seems that your wife should probably learn the art of where to keep her opinions.
2007-10-18 16:51:39 · answer #6 · answered by Allison P 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
CA has some very stupid people and stupid rules. Besides that, race is such a touchy area in some places that you can't even think about it or some idiot will detect that you were thinking about it and label you racist.
Anyway, your wife should have just gone with the flow and did what the hospital wanted. She has to follow their rules if she wants to be invited to the party.
2007-10-18 16:57:32 · answer #7 · answered by Flatpaw 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋