As an HR pro, have you ever fielded reports about missing company equipment? A stapler or tape dispenser here, a pair of safety goggles there. Well, just imagine if your company lost something as large as a snowplow. That’s what happened in Polk County, MN, and now a county employee has paid for the mistake with his job.
Mike Raymond was fired after accidentally sinking a snowplow to the bottom of a river.
Raymond was assigned to clear parking lots of snow and ice one day in December.
Besides doing that, he tried to clear a path for ice fisherman on Red Lake River with the $200,000 plow — actually a front-end loader.
The loader slid into the water and sank to the bottom.
Emergency workers fished him out of the water.
County engineer Rich Sanders said Raymond was a good employee, but he clearly violated department rules.
Raymond worked for the Polk County Highway Department for 28 years.
It’ll cost the county thousands of dollars to fix the loader.
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