Mini-rant: the blame-somebody-else-for-your-own-faults mentality
Findlaw (AP) reports; “Woman Sues [rapper] ‘P. Diddy’ Over Restaurant Flap.”
This plaintiff claimed a bouncer at P. Diddy’s’ Manhattan restaurant threw her to the ground and dragged her on the pavement, causing wounds on both knees, which remained swollen for days, and scars on her legs and ankles, which she still has.
Sounds awful. But, as Paul Harvey used to say, “and now, the rest of the story”:
It happened when she stood outside the establishment, “having an argument with a friend that became physical.” Allegedly, “the bouncer grabbed her by the neck and dragged her down the sidewalk, saying: ‘No fighting in front of this restaurant.’”
I’m sorry, but you don’t have a right to get into a street fight or bar fight without risking such consequences. I suppose if it was the “friend” she fought with who caused the injuries, she’d have sued her (if she was a multimillionaire rapper, at least!)
Sometimes in employment law it seems the likelihood of an employee suing is inversely proportional to their competence as an employee.
The people who basically “hang themselves” through lousy attendance, insubordination, and various and sundry forms of misconduct are precisely the ones least able to take personal responsibility for their failings and most desirous of blaming the employer and seeking a “gravy train” lawsuit recovery. (Such cases undermine the cases of true injustice, because the courts are so busy with the frivolous cases.) For this reason, what seems to an employer like an obviously correct disciplinary or termination decision still must be thoroughly analyzed and documented, because the likelihood of legal challenge is not lessened much by the extent to which the employee seems at fault.
And, to P. Diddy and his attorney Benjamin Brafman, who said: “This lady is in for a rude awakening because unlike other superstars, Puffy fights these lawsuits” — I say “bully.”
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