Posted on 08/10/2024 4:24:12 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
SAN RAMON, Calif. (KGO) -- A 72-year-old former Bay Area Home Depot employee is suing the retailer for age discrimination and wrongful termination after she was fired for failing to stop $5,000 worth of fraudulent transactions. The incident happened at the San Ramon Home Depot three months after a loss prevention officer was shot and killed at a Pleasanton Home Depot while trying to stop a theft attempt.
Carleen Acevedo was fired from Home Depot last July for "creating a security or loss prevention risk" according to her termination letter. She says she felt scared and intimidated by the person at her register, who was paying with a suspicious card.
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Once is a mistake.
Four times?
But it takes and act of Congress to fire government, “Public servants”...
If she tried to stop a shoplifter, she’d be fired. So why is she being fired for not trying to stop a fraudulent transaction?
She didn’t stop it, fired.
Had she tried to stop it, fired.
Had she refused the transaction, fired.
Where is the sweet spot for her?
“60 percent of the time, it works every time”
Home Depot needs a a silent code to add to a transaction for a cashier to notify security of a potential threat. That they don’t have it tells you that Home Depot isn’t going to do anything to help a cashier in harm’s way.
> Had she tried to stop it, fired. <
Maybe assaulted by the criminal. Then fired.
Just another day in Biden’s America. Or should I say Kamala’s America?
Ok, that's why ya say no, and let your supervisor take the bullet with the override, protects ya.
Was it something she should have caught, then yes.
Otherwise, No
Her age is irrelevant.
People aren’t reading the article.
Clown World is just another manifestation of anarchotyranny.
“”I was instructed not to do a thing. Do not approach, do not touch, do not try to dissuade, to interfere, just let them go,” she said.
“She was doing everything she could. She asked for backup. She’s making copies of the receipt. You know she can’t risk her life for merchandise and employees are explicitly taught not to risk their life for merchandise,” said Chambord Benton-Hayes, Acevedo’s attorney.
Benton-Hayes also questions the timing of her termination. According to the lawsuit, six months prior, Acevedo learned a teenage new hire at the store had a starting salary of $21 an hour. Acevedo, who was 70 at the time and had been working at Home Depot for seven years, was making $20.17 an hour. She complained and the following month received a $2 raise.
“They really just wanted an excuse to terminate her,” said Benton-Hayes. “The moment she complained, she’s terminated within a few months.””
Danged if you do, danged if you don’t.
I suspect they were looking for any reason to get rid of her given her age.
She is going to win in court.
Home Depot put her in an impossible position.
She tried to call a supervisor but none responded rapidly.
She was in reasonable fear of her life given the recent murder in a nearby store.
She fully documented the transaction and was not trying to hide anything.
I miss you very much, but I'm glad I moved away...
-PJ
I have read numerous articles about employees who get fired when they try to stop shoplifting and other crimes. Maybe she was afraid they would fire her if she tried to stop the fraudulent transactions.
She tried to get a supervisor. No answer.
Here is information on the Home Depot employee that was murdered a few months prior to this situation.
"During her seven years working as a cashier at the San Ramon Home Depot, Carleen Acevedo says she won multiple awards for exceptional service, including Cashier of the Year in 2021. '"You're phenomenal in every way. We are grateful to have you.'"
And she couldn't raise her boss during the fraudulent transactions. She tried to reach her boss, he or she wasn't available and she got fired. That just isn't right.
The "man approached her cash register with a card that had written instructions on the back to process the transaction as cash." What the heck does that even mean? It essentially sounds like a stick-up note on the back of the card.
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