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CASE STUDY – GERALD
Gerald is a 22 year old MAVO working for a northern NJ medical transportation company.
Gerald has been working as an MAVO fcr three years now, and he likes his job. He takes pride
in giving the elderly and handicapped patients he transports a quality ride and a few minutes of
entertaining conversation. Gerald’s boss likes him, and has given Gerald a supervisor position
and put him in charge of training new MAVO’s. Gerald has taken this opportunity to save a
little money for his newborn daughter ‘s christening party.
One night, Gerald is asked to go out for a night on the town with some of his high school
buddies. Gerald and his friends go out, have a great dinner, head to a bar, and drink late into
the night. At the end of the evening, Gerald feels a little tipsy, but since he’s the least drunk in
the group he decides it is safest if he drives everyone home in his buddy’s car.
On the way home, Gerald and his friends are pulled over by the police for a broken tail light.
The police officer administers a breathalyzer test and Gerald blows over the legal limit for
alcohol. Gerald is given a Driving Under the Influence (DUI) citation and his driver’s license is
suspected for the minimum of six months.
When Gerald tells his boss about his drivers license status, he gets some bad news. While his
boss is sympathetic, he tells Gerald that he’ll have to let him go. Gerald’s boss has no work for
him to do for the six months that he can’t drive, and even after the six months the insurance
cost to insure Gerald to drive with a DUI on his record will be too high. Because of one night’s
bad judgement, Gerald will have to come up with a new job and a new way of paying for that
christening party.