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Good news, McDonald's workers! While you're still expected to flip burgers and wipe down counters, risking life and limb to save customers who happen to be attacked in your store is not one of your duties. The bad news is that, should you take it upon yourself to indulge in a spot of at-work heroism, well, you're on your own.

Twenty-two-year-old McJobber Nigel Haskett learned this the hard way after he stepped in to help a customer who was being punched by her boyfriend in his Little Rock, Ark., restaurant last August. The young hero forced the assailant out of the door, blocked it and promptly received a series of gun blasts to the chest for his troubles.

Haskett survived, but a month of hospital treatment and surgeries on his aorta, liver and pancreas later, he got a second nasty surprise: a letter from McDonald's insurance company rejecting his $300,000 medical expenses claim. The injuries, it seems, "did not arise out of, or within the course and scope of his employment."

The police and the local community have voiced their support for Haskett and a fund has been set up to help him, but he still faces an exhausting appeals process if he's ever going to squeeze any compensation from the burger giant. Something to chew on next time you're contemplating putting yourself in harm's way to help another.