A local gas station employee is out of a job after he thought he was helping save someone’s life. Posted on 05/08/2008 6:59:20 AM PDT by Sopater
A local gas station employee is out of a job after he thought he was helping save someone’s life.
Mark Beverly was one of two employees inside a Roseville Super America when a robber came into the store on March 26.
Beverly was cleaning the bathroom when he heard the store clerk cry out. He came out to find a robber attacking the female employee.
"I just jumped on his back and trying to hit his head and pushed him over the counter. I jumped back over and he was out of there," he said.
Later that day, Beverly returned to work only to be punished for his actions.
"I didn't think I was going to get fired for it," he told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS.
Super America issued a statement, saying that ‘employees are never to take action that could endanger themselves or others. It’s regrettable this happened.’
Beverly was given a robbery prevention packet, but he says he got it after the attempted robbery.
"I didn't care about the money, I know Super America is insured. But I thought he was attacking her, that's why I jumped on him," he explained.
The Roseville Police Department has not made any arrests regarding the robbery. Beverly has been denied employment with Super America.
He is in the process of an appeal.
Hopefully the people in the area will stay away from Super America station, too.
Let their pumps sit idle and rot in the sun.
Maroons.
Better yet - anyone got an email address for their corporate headquarters or know if they are affiliated with any other major chains. Would sure like to give them a piece of my mind.
Yeah, that’s a great corporate policy. Just stand there and let a fellow employee get beaten to a pulp or worse, killed. Wonder what the clown who thought up this ridiculous policy would do if someone broke into his office on the 26th floor and pulled a gun on him and the fellow employee who, say, had a CCW and could have stopped him said “Hey, I would have liked to help you, but you know, that whole policy about endangering another employee...”
I know, I know, a little far-fetched, but if one person had had a CCW at 101 California Street in San Francisco, maybe that looney tune Jon Ferrie could have been stopped before he massacred the employees of a law firm.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Super America (Speedway) is a subsidiary of Marathon Oil.
Somebody local needs to hire this guy.
Do you live in world without lawyers? Have you never tried to recover damages from an insurance company?
The company has no other choice these days.
If they condone or approve his actions, then that's used against them by the insurance company to raise the rates, and would be used subsequently by 3rd party lawyers to show that there was a 'cowboy mentality' encouraged by the company that caused damages to their client in the next attack.
This is like blaming oil companies for high prices of a comodity.
This little company is just adapting to the psychotic tort environment *WE* have all let happen to this country every time someone says, "there oughtta be a law." Yes. It's OUR country, OUR laws, OUR fault.
We clamor against the little pissant crap like Dubai Ports Authority and ignore the tort issues in our everyday lives.
Liberals will get you killed. PC will get you killed. The people who espouse liberalism and PC are only interested in themselves and their own self-aggrandizement.
Tune into KQRS on line,they were talking about him this morning....he’ll have a new job by todays end.
This is a textbook example of why this country is in deep doo-doo. Even Edmund Burke could not have foreseen this kind of collectivist wimpdom when he said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Somebody give the hero who these fools fired a real job.
And screw Marathon and the culturally Marxist donkey they rode in on!
SuperAmerica...aka Speedway, Rich and/or Marathon.
contact them here http://www.speedway.com/ContactUs/EmailUs.aspx
Regretably, I am married to a lawyer whose practice involves a lot of work with collecting from insurance companies, so they have NO fans here.
However, if the company adopted its policy because of potential increases in premiums, and an employee attacking a would-be burglar could increase the premiums, wouldn’t the facility’s susceptibility to a an armed burglary do the same, to an even higher degree? I can’t imagine premiums aren’t related very closely to crime in the area.
The “thought was being attacked” was repeated several times. I get the feeling the employee maybe was not being “attacked” at all and this guy just jumped on the perp because he wanted to get a little “what fer” in.
If that is the case, then this employee put everyone in that business in danger by escalating the situation and possibly inciting the perp into using whatever weapon he had.
Most business's tell employees if you get robbed, just give them what they want and get them out of there as quick as possible. No sense putting anyone else in danger for what amounts to a couple hundred dollars that is covered by insurance anyway.
If I were a recruiter for the Army or Marine Corps, I’d read the paper every day looking for stories like this. The guy had a job, so he’s willing to work for a living. And he obviously has a certain amount of courage and initiative.
Sounds like a prospective recruit to me.
You can bet if someone walked in and tried this at corporate, well, nevermind, they have armed guards to protect them.
Having a CCW, I convinced the guy it would be in his best interest to vacate the premises immediately.
Had that happened at my former employer Domino's, I would have been fired before the guy got out the door.
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