Worker finds gun, hands it in to the cops, fired for having gun at work

[Ben]

Michigan Worker Fired After Turning In Gun Found On The Job - Careers Articles

Sometimes it doesn't pay to do the right thing. Just ask John Chevilott, a former public-works employee in Wayne County, Mich., who earlier this month found a loaded, snubnosed revolver while mowing grass in Detroit's Brightmoor neighborhood, turned it in and was promptly fired.

"It was damaged, so it could've went off. Surprisingly, it didn't kill the guy on the mower," he told Detroit TV station WJBK. Chevilott (pictured at left) said the crew was waiting for Detroit police to swing by and pick up the gun, but they never showed.

So the veteran employee of the Department of Public Services did what he thought was the right thing: Finished the job and then turned the gun into police later the same evening.

Police told Chevilott he did the right thing by getting the gun off the streets, he said. A check revealed that it had been stolen from a nearby suburb in 2005.

Where he ran into trouble is with his superiors, who saw things rather differently.

A Wayne County spokeswoman told WJBK that according to department rules employees aren't allowed to possess a weapon on work property.

So after 23 years -- just two shy of retirement -- Chevilott was fired for violation of department policies, even though he found the gun while on the job and didn't bring it to work. His foreman, who knew about the incident, was suspended for 30 days.

[slaphead666]

Stingey bunch of bastards didn't want to pay him his pension. What a bunch of wankers.

[Earl]

Aye, that's what it looks like to me.

[timey]

But surely you don't lose your entire pension just because you got sacked? That's not usually the case.

[lohi1]

This makes no sense.

[Earl]

But surely you don't lose your entire pension just because you got sacked? That's not usually the case.

Is it not? I always thought your pension was lost if you got sacked, because in all the cop shows they moan about losing their pensions if they lose their badge.

[timey]

Nah, they can't take your pension away just like that, unless you get done for some serious felony or something, but if it's just a regular sacking then no, or they'd have to give you all your contributions back.

[Delboy]

america has different rules fancy getting "Fired " for handing in a gun! I am "Blown away" at the response!! I think he has been "Miss fired"