Connoisseur Media recently fired a morning show personality on its WDRC-FM, Hartford station because they were going in a different direction – one that would save the owners money.

The personality had been doing traffic reports from an outsourced company.

Unfortunately, Kim Zachary’s firing left her husband without medical coverage and he was due to have cancer surgery this month.

Bad timing.

Had WDRC waited just a few days, she would have received coverage and surgery would have proceeded.

The station is unapologetic – “she’s not our employee” they insist even though she was listed on their website as one of their morning personalities.

Contrast that with the Cincinnati Bengals. They had to cut defensive tackle Devon Still from their squad but his daughter, Leah, was diagnosed with stage four pediatric cancer in June.

Unlike Connoisseur CEO Jeff Warshaw, the Bengals rehired Still to be part of their practice squad to assure him of a $6,300 weekly salary and provide his family with insurance coverage when they needed it most.

Money and power does not guarantee compassion.

The best way to always assure that we will be compassionate with others in spite of our economic or career position in life is to see the plight of others as we would see it happening to ourselves or our loved ones.

In the case of WDRC and Connoisseur, the wrong message was sent to its employees – that management doesn’t care about them.

But even this Eagles fan is rooting for the Bengals this year for doing the right thing to one of their own.

They didn’t have to.

To their credit they obviously wanted to.