Catherine Martens, president of the Bethesda-based Mid-Atlantic chapter of the Make-a-Wish Foundation, was fired on Monday after the foundation’s national headquarters received complaints from employees about the hostile work environment that Martens created.
Make-a-Wish national spokesman Paul Allvin said that Martens was terminated due to “unacceptable workplace conduct” and after 19 out of 20 local members of the board of directors resigned last Friday.
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Bless the upper management of Make-A-Wish-Foundation for protecting their employees and for taking their complaints and fears seriously. Karma:what comes around, goes around..
Too bad more companies don’t do this. This would be a much better, healthier and productive world.
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3rd place Martens has been fired from the past decade, for the same reason. (1) She keeps getting another similar role, with more pay, to leave that organization in ruins and worse off than she found it (2) What sad background checks are run on her, since she’s always friends with board members that hire her – or on the board kissing up to them to get the next gig after she’s unemployed (3) Make a Wish, was it worth it?
It’s funny how we (corporate America and working citizens)want people who are leaders and strong individuals to take the lead because they don’t know were to start or were to end and then we criticize once we receive it and have to bend over back words from the person who leading us and then complain a praise it.ocdgirl it is apparent to me that you have no idea what your talking about or who your praising. I know cathy martens the professional and the mother caring friend she is a strong woman and great demander of perfection to improve peoples character. we need more women like her in this day in age.
Albert, pleaze put the gin and juice down. She got fired again for a behavior deemed inappropriate at work. Its not 1950, but rather 2010.
oc I doubt you would be better off in 2010 than sipping on that jealousy gin you’re drinking your sorrows at night away on because you couldn’t be half of successful as her.
She’s old, lonely and unemployed.
With most of life behind her.
Yes I’d rather be 60, lonely and out of work.
Sure
I just saw this 1sthand at Make a Wish Foundation in MD
A turkey was chatting with a bull. ‘I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree,’ sighed the turkey, ‘but I haven’t got the energy.’ ‘Well, why don’t you nibble on some of my droppings?’ replied the bull. They’re packed with nutrients.’
The turkey pecked at a lump of dung, and found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch.
Finally after a fourth night, the turkey was proudly perched at the top of the tree. He was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot him out of the tree.
Moral of the story: Bull(x)hit might get you to the top, but it won’t keep you there.
Martens, reached at home Monday, declined to say whether she left voluntarily, “but I would be happy to talk about this as it progresses.” She would not comment on what complaints staff may have raised.
PROGRESSED?
IT HAS PROGRESSED
This is just a long string of Ms. Marten’s bullying! She was fired from her last position at Second Genesis for the exact same conduct. She is nothing but a BIG FAT BULLY! She brings her minions in one by one and then closes ranks. She has been accused of: sexual harrasment, discrimination, creating a hostile working environment, bullying, inappropriate office conduct, using inappropriate and vulgar language. What a day when the new Chairman of the Board walked in and fired her!!!
It is about time someone told the truth about this woman. She is SERIOUSLY disturbed and no one should have to work for her again! At least it is now out in the open AND in The Washington Post! LOL!
Albert…Ms. Martens will have a lot of time on her hands, you need to ask her for some spelling and grammer lessons!
jane I am sorry I have a job and am constantly on the move so I don’t have the luxury of sitting be hind a computer at my house criticizing some one else while your schmuck of a husband supports your infant self
Albert you must have been behind a computer to respond to my facts about this jerk boss getting fired again. “On the move” you at least took 5 minutes to look this up and write LOL
And at the end of the day she still got fired. At 70 or whatever she is, we’ll see if she’s hired now by the Red Cross but don’t count on it with the WashPost exposure this time.
My Make A Wish experience with the late Catherine:
“If a child is a bully, all it means is that he’s acting out, externalizing stuff that he’s frustrated or angry about,” she says. “It’s unlikely that he’s not saying a single word about it.”
This frustration can lead to aggression.
“When a child is frustrated, there are only two outcomes for that … either he’s going to become aggressive or adapt. If you have a child who is a bully, he’s probably chronically frustrated.”
Stop Bullying Now!, a federally-run site, notes some common characteristics among bullies:
Children Who Bully Can Be:
Impulsive, hot-headed, dominant
Easily frustrated
Lacking empathy
Having difficulty following rules
Viewing violence in a positive way
Physically stronger than other children
whats funny is all your statements are false! the end.
Albert, is Catherine still the leader of Make A Wish?
The End
LOL – H-a-r-d
Ms. Martens has now filed a law suit against Make-a-Wish and the executives. I am surprised it got this far. She usually gets paid off when she threatens to sue. GO Make-a-Wish, there are allot of people out here that know the truth about this woman and we will help in any way we can!!!
Deja Vu
I need to contact the defense attorneys. I would LOVE to testify for them!!
1 year later from a grand day when dummy was fired …
To all the people on this message board except for Albert who seems to be the only person with a job. I beg you to get a grip on reality and realize that coming onto a website like this and bashing a woman who worked her ass of for many years for a great cause deserves nothing but your utmost respect. Now I’m sure that most of you worked for Cathy just like I did for a year internship in high school before going to West Point. In my experience Cathy did nothing but push her staff to make as many wishes come true as possible and looking at the facts that is what happened. WHne she first got to MAW they were working out of a retirement home REALLLLLYYYY she moved the offices to a very nice building in Bethesda. So already better than when she got there, the wishes granted almost doubled by the time she left again impressive. High turnover rate umm maybe because the staff was used to getting there when they wanted too and leaving whenever the wanted to sounds pretty unproductive and when kids who have life threatening diseases are at stake i would want my staff working pretty hard. So before I have to go back out onto patrol and protect the rights that you people abuse when you write these things about a hardworking individual i would like to say one thing. You people have no clue what it is to work a hard and stressful day granted childrens wishes is the best job in the world and if you dont think so i urge you to come and pick up a gun we could use you over here. But I have a feeling if working for a woman who pushes you to the limit to produce wishes gets to you you couldnt fight for your country. So do me a favor the person fighting for your freedoms stop posting stupid crap like this online about other people. And if you dont like these rules I have set down there is some nice piece of real estate over here in Kabul. And I find it interesting how the poeple who posted most of these comments took their profile down you guys must like that secret behind your back way of going about things thats cool you remind me of the guy my gunner took out today with a bomb strapped to his chest. Have a great time looking for those nice relaxing jobs where you dont get pushed to produce I hear greenpeace is hiring. “LOL H.A.R.D. ” – Janedoe
p.s if you want to use a screenname so people dont know who you are dont use your name in it cuz you guys were bad accountants and even worse consultants. Have going back to the office to gossip about this one girls. Goodbye from the middle east!!!