Robbed at Gunpoint Then Fired for Not Repaying Stolen Cash

[Tom Joad]

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

Marissa Holcomb was hard at work at a Popeye's in Texas. She was in the midst of one of the busiest shifts of the week when a gunman with a stocking cap entered the store, jumped over the counter and robbed the clerk at gunpoint. Unable to open the safes, she opened the registers and the thief made of with roughly $400. Did she receive praise for handing over the cash and surviving the ordeal? Nah:

Marissa claimed that after the robbery, one of her managers gave her a choice to either pay the money back or get fired.

"I don't think it's right because now I'm struggling for my family because what I had to do to keep my life"

Just days after she refused, she was fired for violating store policy:

The Popeyes franchise owner, Z&H Foods Inc., wouldn't talk to us on camera. However, a spokesperson in their human resources department explained that Marissa was fired because she broke policy by leaving too much money in the register and this wasn't her first offense.

[Tom Joad]

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.

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.

$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.

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

[nailer]

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

[Tom Joad]

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.

[donquixote99]

Popeyes Unfair to Workers. Boycott.

[Wasillaguy]

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.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

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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[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

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.

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

[Wasillaguy]

Originally Posted by Boreas

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.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

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.

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.

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.