School Bus Driver Gets Fired for Helping Stranded Police Officers

A Long Island NY school bus driver is fighting to regain his job after being fired last week for being a Good Samaritan, apparently against bus company policy.

George Daw says he was fired because he helped three Nassau County police detectives during last Monday's hail and rain storm.

Daw was driving a mini-bus carrying one teenage passenger and a bus matron through the rain and hail when he came upon a stalled unmarked police car that was filling with water.

The detectives from the car asked Daw for help, so he drove through the high water to pick them up and deliver them to their precinct station.

Daw says they were in danger and needed help. "I felt this was something anyone would do under the circumstances."

Daw's employer didn't agree.  After he filed a report about what happened, he was terminated from his job of nine months.

A bus company spokesman says Daw was fired - in part - because he violated strict policy against picking up unscheduled passengers.  However, the spokesman also says Daw wasn't fired just because of the unscheduled pickup, but he wouldn't elaborate.

via Bus Driver: I Was Fired for Helping Police | NBC New York.

Clearly we don't know the whole story here.  Anytime someone gets fired over a seemingly trivial incident, that usually means the employer wasn't happy with the employee's overall job performance, and this was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

There is more to this story than has been reported, and we haven't heard the company's side of the story yet.