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Cummins Confidential : From Fired Teenager To Vice President, Provided Your Surname Is Cummins

Donovan Joel Cummins was fired twice as a teenage machinist before rising to Vice President of Engineering. TCAP contrasts the founder’s brother’s remarkable second chances with its own employment dispute, asking why mistakes became character-building folklore for one employee and evidence of irredeemability for another. Apparently, rehabilitation runs in the fucking family.

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Cummins Confidential : Seamus Sweeney, The Microphone And The Coward’s Red Pen

What happens when a judge’s oral remarks appear considerably more inflammatory than the subsequently published reasons? TCAP examines Employment Judge Seamus Sweeney’s handling of the Cummins discrimination case, comparing recollections of the oral judgment with the written decision, medical evidence and witness statements. The microphone remembers. The fucking red pen apparently had other ideas.

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