She Got Fired Over This // The Debbie Stevens Kidney Story
6/4/20268 min
In 2011, a woman named Debbie Stevens reportedly donated a kidney through a transplant chain to help her boss. After the surgery, Stevens later claimed she faced workplace problems during recovery and was eventually fired.
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Ray William Johnson· Host0:56
Imagine giving your boss a kidney, and then they fire you. Well, that's what happened to this woman. Her name's Debbie, and Debbie is 45, living in Florida. And here's the thing about Debbie. She's a very nice person, the kind of person who goes way out of her way to help people. And so one day, she travels all the way to Long Island, New York to visit her daughter. And while she's there, she stops by a car dealership where she used to work. So she walks into the place and she chats with some old coworkers of hers, including her former boss,