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A female Wisconsin street worker was fired for her job for an apparent breach in contract, according to her former employer.  The defendant claims the woman was fired after she failed to remove a pin on the driver’s side of the snow plow while she was testing the vehicle in a parking lot.  The pin is responsible for holding the plow blade in place while the vehicle is not in use.  Because she tested the plow with the pin in, the struts bent on the blade, leading to vehicle damage and her  job termination.

Although no other employees had bent struts on plows because of leaving the pin in, at least two men in recent history had bent struts through different means, without being disciplined or fired.   The initial judgment of the case declared the city had reason to fire the woman, although the decision has been appealed, with another hearing set for September 2008.

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