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Skidmore

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Wed Apr 22, 2015, 01:49 PM Apr 2015

Pregnant fast food manager fired when she wouldn’t reimburse money stolen in armed robbery [View all]

Popeye's needs to experience some backlash for this. Gives you an idea about how little value they place on the lives of their employees. This risk of business should not be placed on the backs of an employee. Dead employees would have been preferable to the business.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/pregnant-fast-food-manager-fired-when-she-wouldnt-reimburse-money-stolen-in-armed-robbery/

A fast food manager from Texas said she was fired after she refused to pay back money stolen during an armed robbery.

Marissa Holcomb, who is five months pregnant, said a masked man waving a gun burst into Popeyes during her shift March 31 and ordered employees to the floor, reported KHOU-TV.

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However, Holcomb said she was unable to open the safe but was able to give the gunman nearly $400 from the Channelview eatery’s cash registers.

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Holcomb said one of her managers gave her a choice after the robbery: Repay the money she handed over to the gunman or lose her job.
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Pregnant or not, that's a despicable act. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Apr 2015 #1
That corporate isn't stepping in is telling too. Skidmore Apr 2015 #4
Number 1 the restaurant will get the money back through yeoman6987 Apr 2015 #9
That particular Popeye's certainly does. KamaAina Apr 2015 #2
Company needs to take heat also... daleanime Apr 2015 #5
since when... chillfactor Apr 2015 #3
In the National Retail Branch of my company? JustAnotherGen Apr 2015 #6
I was robbed at gun point SamKnause Apr 2015 #7
I worked for several different retail companies awoke_in_2003 Apr 2015 #16
Exactly. SamKnause Apr 2015 #18
She was fired for keeping too much money in the till. LiberalAndProud Apr 2015 #8
Still, we can let them know that firing her Ilsa Apr 2015 #10
I just find it interesting that a one-sided social media post can provoke such outrage. LiberalAndProud Apr 2015 #11
What if they were too busy earlier for her to move the money? Ilsa Apr 2015 #13
What if the manager was offering a way for her to keep her job? LiberalAndProud Apr 2015 #14
And she's supposed to get $400 from where? When she's pregnant Ilsa Apr 2015 #15
Exactly! We give right wingers a lot of shit for doing the same thing. BeeBee Apr 2015 #19
That's an important point. But it still sucks. DanTex Apr 2015 #12
Where I work also has that policy arikara Apr 2015 #17
If she couldn't open the safe, what else was she supposed to do with the money? surrealAmerican Apr 2015 #20
The article I read on the same story said it was $400 taken strategery blunder Apr 2015 #21
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