Robbed at Gunpoint Then Fired for Not Repaying Stolen Cash
 

Fun in the America workplace.

http://www.alternet.org/labor/pregna...ng-stolen-cash


Pregnant Fast-Food Worker Robbed at Gunpoint Then Fired for Not Repaying Stolen Cash

Back in 1970 I worked for a couple of months in a convenience store.

They had a policy that you could have no more than $50 in the register at any given time. If it went over that you had to put it into the floor safe by way of a slot. We also had a key to it, but we weren't supposed to use that until we got the money out to make the night bank deposit. If someone robbed the store and told us to open up the safe we were supposed to tell them we didn't have the key.:rolleyes:

Yeah right. Someone sticks a gun in your face and you're supposed to tell the robber you don't have the safe key. Put you life on the line for a days receipts at the goddamned minute market.:rolleyes:

$50 in 1970 is roughly $300 in today's money.

http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

And I can tell you, there was no fucking way you could keep from going over that when it was busy.

I mean think about that. You got a store full of customers, and people waiting in line. And you're supposed to stop everything, take a big of cash out of the register, and put it in the safe. :rolleyes:

It was just a way for the management to transfer the robbery risk to the employees.

She was the corporate blame carrier. Welcome to fascist America.

I almost never eat at Pop-Eyes.

But every now and then I do get a hankering for their Red Beans and Rice.

Fart like a steamboat afterwards though.

But this does it.

I will never darken the door (or the drive-thru) of a Pop-Eyes again. :mad:

Popeyes Unfair to Workers. Boycott.

Employer did her a favor. If she's too stupid to secure the cash per policy, she has no business doing that kind of job. Stupid shit like that can get you killed.

Blame the victim. Brilliant.

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Right! The stupid bitch would have been much safer if she had given the robber less money.

That's correct. Word was out on the street- that's the place where the stupid bitch works that doesn't secure the cash. Why go rob the store down the street where they follow policy? You're not getting more than $50 from them.

The person running the register shouldn't be the one that has to put excess cash into the safe. That should be the manager on duty's responsibility.

I hate it when I go out to eat and and management is so cheap that they assign extra duties to the register people. Then you end up waiting in a long line when you go to pay your bill because the person is having to answer the phone and run errands and what not.

Cracker Barrel is particularly bad about that. I love to eat there. They have great food, great service, until you go to check out. Then you end up standing in line forever. :mad:

This isn't about an employee "not following policy"

This is about a cheap-assed corporation trying to squeeze the last drop of blood out of their employees.

Fuck them.

She supposedly didn't have time to secure the cash per policy, because they were just slammed with business. Yet the video shows the robber come into an empty lobby with no one at the counter ordering or picking up food. There are 3 condiment trays (two of them stacked sloppily) on the counter, like they're closing for the night and doing the side work. The trash can door is open as well. She had plenty of time to do her job as instructed and stash the cash. Hell, maybe she's in on it with the robber, you never know. Exactly why they have these policies, and enforce them.

Almost invariably, if crime catches an organization at just the right moment, the moment was arranged.

For $400 bucks?

Would her cut be half?

$200 bucks?

Or since the Dude with the gun took more risk maybe she only get's $100?

I suppose it's remotely possible.

Tell ya what.

If it turns out she's in on it, just post a link with the proof and I'll shoot a "My Bad" back atcha.

You will? Oh that would be just dreamy. I'll be wriggling in my chair in anticipation!

She's got a "Gofundme" going on now.

https://www.facebook.com/KHOU11/posts/10153850281294062

Maybe now she can make some real money.

Wonder if she'll have to split that with her "accomplice".:)

Wasilla takes it even a step farther and suggests that she may have been in on it, and Zeke, bless his heart, confirms that that is very likely true.

From the comments, it looks like she's off to a great start-

"Robert Quarantello Kate Simmons Jocelyn Li I was contacted by Marissa and family members in a rather angry tone as they thought I created this page to take money for myself for her ordeal. She did not see the kindness I was trying to do to help her out. I have canceled the page and refunded the only $25 the fund had made at that time."

Feel better now?:)

I read in another article that she is pregnant with her fourth child, plus no husband, plus she was working at Pop-Eyes before she was fired.

That makes her a poster girl for you anti-entitlement types.

Except for one thing, she's white.

Plus she lives in Texas.

Detroit would have been so much better wouldn't it?

That's a bit of a prob ain't it?

But nothing that you guys can't get past.

Looking forward to what your buddy Rush Limbaugh will have to say.

'Slut,' or something along those lines....

Where did you "learn" that little tidbit?

Doesn't have to be her but "perfect timing" screams Inside Man.

Pulling out some worn themes now, aren't we?
Look, incompetence or criminal intent, whichever was the case here, is not defined by skin color. There's way more white clueless idiots running around the country than all the other skin tones combined.
And Texas? I think Texas sucks.

I KNOW Texas sucks.

Well Wasilla it looks like your boys over at Pop-Eyes are having second thoughts after all the bad PR they got.

http://news.yahoo.com/popeyes-backtr...231236175.html

But do me a favor, will ya?

Keep an eye on this story and let me know when the cops get enough on her to make an arrest so that I can eat crow.

http://news.yahoo.com/popeyes-backtr...231236175.html

I suspect the "word on the street" was that Tuesday night is the best time to hit Pop-Eyes because that's the night they run their $1.19 special.

"Then, on Thursday, local operators and Popeye’s corporate offices issued statements of regret to Consumerist, issuing apologies to employees and offering to reinstate Holcomb.
Holcomb is also being offered $2,000 in back pay—but she told KHOU she’s not sure she wants to go back to work for the chicken chain."

She should take the back pay and continue looking for another job. She owes Pop Eyes neither advance notice nor loyalty.

Yes, $1.19 for two pieces of chicken, that's pretty good. If the average customer also buys a drink for $1.00 and a side for $1.50, you get a total of $3.69. That means this dim bulb served food to about 108 people. Let's say the average order was for two people, so that's 54 cash register transactions without putting any money away. The last ten or twenty customers would witness a cash drawer opening, where they could quickly assess how deep the stack of $20's was. She's basically asking to get robbed at that point.

54 cash register transactions at the least. Not considering credit card transactions, let's say each transaction takes about 3 minutes. That's roughly 3 hours without making a cash drop. And, as I already pointed out, they were not busy at all by the time the gunman entered.

Popeye's doesn't want this idiot back, they're just doing the knee jerk reaction to the bad press.

Good grief Dude, you'll do anything to try to shift the blame onto a pregnant single mother instead of the fucking corporate fascists at Pop-Eye's.

Called her a bitch, called her an idiot, implied that she was in on it.

Kiss up and kick down.

Does that make you feel like a BIG MACHO MAN?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO43p2Wqc08

Ya know what?

I'm done talking to you.

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Just remembered.

Gonna hafta make one, and only one exception.

I told you I'd give you a "My Bad" if and when you post a link to evidence that this woman was in on the crime.

That still applies as I am a man of my word. :)

Boreas called her a stupid bitch. I just echoed it back so he'd know who I was talking about.

That's great that you're done. You were done when you started, and just didn't know it.