Some companies appoint emergency captains to make sure all employees are evacuated during an emergency. However, in certain situations, there’s a general understanding that employees have special responsibility for some groups, such as the young, elderly, or physically challenged.
Employees at a nursing home would do their best to evacuate residents, for example. You’d also expect adult employees at schools to help students get out safely.
That expectation is why a high school teacher in earthquake-ravaged Dujiangyan, China, has been fired.
Fan Meizhong fled his classroom before his students during last month’s devastating earthquake.
He fled so fast, he was the first one out of the building. He’s been branded “running Fan” on Internet chat-rooms and has been denounced in the media for his actions.
None of the children in his class died in the quake.
Internet posters have noted that in many other cases, teachers in China died protecting children during the earthquake.
