There was an article in today's newspaper about this. I would type the whole thing up, but it's big and I don't really want to. Instead, I will provide some choice quotes:
On the night she came to the aid of an injured man, Mcaulay (the driver) and a girlfriend had just left Tim Hourtin's where she had gone for coffee. She was not on her lunch break, she was simply test-driving her car, which had been beset by mechanical problems. The restraunt had no idea where she was, or when she would return. She was still on shift and being paid an hourly wage.
The restraunt's co-owner Randy Saluk says this was an ongoing problem.
"She's been warned several times," Saluk says, adding it was never acceptable for his drivers to cruise around town when thet were supposed to be working.
"She wouldn't wear a hair net in the kitchen. She wouldn't wear the apron that was part of the uniform."
While out at Tim Hourton's, McAulay's girlfriend got a call saying there had been gunshots heard near her friends house. They rushed over to to a stranger's place, six blocks from the restraunt. Mcaulay, who has no mediacal training, entered a side-by-side home, talked to the people there and saw the gunshot victim. She asked for a pillow and blanket and stayed with the victim untill police arrived.
McAualy arrived back at the restraunt 2 1/2 hours after she left. She was told she no longer had a job.
Saluk, whose partner Jason Boyd fired McAulay, says he regrets the firing happened the night she helped the man.
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