‘Miss Angie’ seems nice, but was not doing her job

TO THE EDITOR:

I felt sure I would be siding with the nice yet wistful looking lady pictured on Monday’s front page (“‘Miss Angie’ missed,” Jan. 25).

I’m no fan of corporate greed or bureaucratic indifference. So I thought I knew where the article was going. But somehow I never got to that point. Ms. Vargas seems like a sweet woman, a nice lady and an outgoing person. She also seems dedicated to making her workspace a better place for herself and her customers. It’s a good story.

But looking at the rest of the story, couldn’t it also be that Ms. Vargas was terminated because she came to work late, disobeyed workplace policy and took unscheduled breaks?

I admit, it is tempting to lay blame for her plight at the feet of evil bureaucrats and a corporate environment that stifled her creativity. But doesn’t it seem as reasonable to assume that, rather than being “punished for calling corporate,” Ms. Vargas was punished for multiple violations of her workplace’s policy?

I feel badly for Ms. Vargas, and I hope that she does well at school. But the story reads to me like the story of a nice lady who was fired because she did not follow the rules of her workplace.



Brian Karasek
Chapel Hill