Who in their right mind wouldn’t want this HERO as an employee?
A democrat
“Who in their right mind wouldn’t want this HERO as an employee?”
Well, sadly, the dimwits in charge at this place >>>
Randalls employee fired for chasing suspected purse-snatcher receives several job offers
Claire Osborn | Thursday, July 30, 2009
Austin American-Statesman
Troy Schafer, who was fired from his job at a Round Rock (TX) Randalls after chasing a suspected purse snatcher out of the supermarket, is getting several new job offers, he said.
He has received 250 e-mails since he appeared on CNN news Wednesday and FOX news today, including one that has resulted in an interview Saturday. “It’s been a tremendous outpouring,” he said.
The interview is for a job in Texas as a general manager for a retail company, he said. He also has gotten several offers to run home-based businesses plus an offer from someone in the military for a position in aviation, he said. “I’m a simple person,” he said. “I didn’t expect all this.”
Schafer, 36, was fired from his job at a Randalls at 2051 Gattis School Road after he chased a man who had allegedly just snatched a woman’s purse inside the store on July 21. He ran across a field and through an apartment complex before the suspect dropped the purse.
Schafer picked up the purse and chased the suspect, a 15-year-old boy, for another quarter mile before police arrested the teenager. “I haven’t run like that since I got out of the Army in 1995,” he said today.
A Randalls spokeswoman has previously said that Schafer violated a store policy because employees are trained not to pursue suspects in situations like the purse snatching.
Schafer said he had been working for Randalls as a floating manager since January. For the last two months he had worked for the store at the Round Rock location as a produce manager, he said.
He has received e-mails since the incident from all over the world, including Canada and Iraq, he said. “A lot of people send e-mails saying ‘You’re a hero,’ but I don’t think I am,” he said.
“It just touches my heart that people are coming to my aid when I need somebody now.” Many people from the military, including a retired army colonel and the chief medical officer in Fort Polk, La., have also e-mailed him, he said.
“I’m really proud of what I did,” said Schafer who is married and has a son. “It was the right thing whether it cost me my job or not.”
In principle I agree with you. I really do. However I used to work for a large bank with a huge retail presence here in the Midwest (LaSalle Bank, taken over by Bank of America) and it was also our bank's policy that the Teller's would comply with demands for cash from bank robbers as a means to keep the Teller's themselves safe.
The logic behind it was that any bank teller that was injured (or worse, killed) by refusing to comply with a robbers demands means the bank is liable for the death of that employee.
How so you may ask? Because when the lawsuits start being filed, who gets sued? The would-be bank robber, or the bank itself?
The bank of course, that's who has the bigger pockets.
I agree with you the guy's a hero and that he stopped future crimes from happening. I'm just telling you what the bank's views on these types of actions are and why they don't want employees arguing/fighting with/pursuing robbers themselves. (Don't shoot the messenger on this one.)
it’s like in “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen”. We’re in the New Age of Reason here. The New Enlightenment.
Let’s execute war heroes for overachieving and fire bank employees for setting the bar too high.