Wells Fargo fires 68 year-old employee due to petty crime committed 49 years ago - Polidicks

[QUOTE](CNN) -- Sometimes life can turn on a dime. Just ask Richard Eggers, a former Wells Fargo employee. The 68-year-old Eggers was fired by the company's home mortgage division in West Des Moines, Iowa, in July for a petty crime he committed nearly 50 years ago. He got caught using a cardboard cutout of a dime to run a laundromat washing machine when he was 19. Officially, the crime is called operating a coin changing machine by false means, court records from 1963 say. "It was silly and stupid," Eggers told CNN affiliate KCCI-TV. "I am not terribly proud of it, but, it doesn't warrant a termination a half a century later." Wells Fargo says it's following federal laws laid down by the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIC). They're designed to weed out employees guilty of identity theft and mortgage fraud. "Wells Fargo is ... bound by US Federal law ... to protect our customers and their personal financial information from someone who we know has committed an act of dishonesty or breach of trust -- regardless of when the incidents occurred," Vickee J. Adams, vice president of external communications, said in a statement. "It is uncomfortable, but it is a law that we have to follow," she said. "We have the responsibility to avoid hiring or continuing to employ someone who we know has a criminal record." Wells Fargo says between May 2011 and May 2012, it performed thorough background checks on all its team members, regardless of when they were hired. The screenings were the same as those required for new hires. "The whole thing was too absurd for words," Eggers told KCCI. "They had their instructions and there was nothing I could change, but I wanted to let them know I didn't accept it as a logical and reasonable business practice." Wells Fargo says Eggers has been put in touch with an FDIC case manager to work on steps to "make him eligible for reemployment." Leonard Bates, an attorney representing Eggers and three other employees who used to work for the company, said he may file a class action lawsuit against Wells Fargo and the FDIC. "Common sense tells you that Mr. Eggers and his 49-year-old crime was not the downfall of the mortgage industry in 2008 and 2009," Bates told KCCI.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/30/us/iowa-fired-for-a-dime/?iref=obinsite"]http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/30/us/iowa-fired-for-a-dime/?iref=obinsite[/URL] It's probably Wells Fargo management trying to increase their salary cut/bonuses. You know, just being the piece of shit they are.

death sentence

Didn't they just recently fire someone because his kid had cancer and they didn't want to cover him?

wow all he got was the loss of his job, lucky he didn't get the death sentence

[quote]The 68-year-old Eggers was fired by the company's home mortgage division in West Des Moines, Iowa, in July for a petty crime he committed nearly 50 years ago[/quote] What the flying fuck. Shame on Wells Fargo, shame on these fuckwit.

[QUOTE=altern;37522735]Didn't they just recently fire someone because his kid had cancer and they didn't want to cover him?[/QUOTE] Didn't know about that, but if it's true, that's really fucked up.

Fargo shits on everybody, doesn't wipe afterwards.

i dont know why this man didnt get hangd for this violent crime.... USA ur starting to dissapoint..

[quote]Wells Fargo says Eggers has been put in touch with an FDIC case manager to work on steps to "make him eligible for reemployment."[/quote] He's 68 years old, he'll never work again. At that age losing your job is forced retirement.

[QUOTE=altern;37522735]Didn't they just recently fire someone because his kid had cancer and they didn't want to cover him?[/QUOTE] Irresponsibility at the level of Chris Chan.

[QUOTE=avaz;37522788]Didn't know about that, but if it's true, that's really fucked up.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/07/wells-fargo-yovany-gonzalez_n_1751461.html[/url] [editline]3rd September 2012[/editline] found it

[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;37522732]death sentence[/QUOTE] Why does this have to be repeated in every single thread I go in. Stop.

I don't really count using a cardboard cut out of a coin to run a washing machine as a crime at all. It's stealing, sure, but not really... To terminate his job is fucking retarded.

[QUOTE=altern;37522910][url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/07/wells-fargo-yovany-gonzalez_n_1751461.html[/url] [editline]3rd September 2012[/editline] found it[/QUOTE] That's just horrible. They literally killed his daughter because they're too greedy to insure expensive medical treatments.

[quote]. Officially, the crime is called operating a coin changing machine by false means, court records from 1963 say.[/quote] [quote]They're designed to weed out employees guilty of identity theft and mortgage fraud.[/quote] I fail to see how defrauding a laundromat has anything at all to do remotely with identity theft or mortgage fraud.

More than likely they were looking for a reason to fire him for cuts and found it How horrible

Fuck Wells Fargo and join a credit union.

alliance credit union baby!

so like not a single person at any point was like 'hey uh.. maybe this is kind of fucking retarded you guys' i am having a hard time wrapping my head around this

[QUOTE=Rediscover;37525058]so like not a single person at any point was like 'hey uh.. maybe this is kind of fucking retarded you guys'[/QUOTE] Corporations in a nutshell. Large groups of people, when organized properly, have the potential to be stupider than any of their individual members.

Does america not have unfair dismissal laws or is that [I]socialism.[/I]

[QUOTE=Chevron;37527827]Does america not have unfair dismissal laws or is that [I]socialism.[/I][/QUOTE] It varies by state. Iowa is an "employment-at-will" state, meaning that an employer or employee may terminate the relationship at any time, for any reason, or for no reason at all.

He's 68, and depending on how long he was with the company would have a decent retirement coming very soon. They did it to fuck him out of it.

[QUOTE=EzioAuditore;37522921]Why does this have to be repeated in every single thread I go in. Stop.[/QUOTE]It's still funny sometimes. I remember when "SCIENCE!!" was funny, too.