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awoke_in_2003

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16. I worked for several different retail companies

Reply to SamKnause (Reply #7)

Wed Apr 22, 2015, 05:37 PM

Apr 2015

for about a 10 year period. The first rule when running the register was that if someone demanded the money, you opened the drawer and gave it to them. No ifs, ands, or buts. That is what insurance is for.

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Pregnant fast food manager fired when she wouldn�t reimburse money stolen in armed robbery [View all] Skidmore Apr 2015 OP

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